MANGIFERA INDICA

From across Singapore Botanic Gardens at the Cluny Road / Napier Road junction, I noticed the crown of this mature tree was covered with flowers. Upon close zooming with my camera, they were revealed to be flowers of the Mango Tree.

MANGIFERA INDICA

These are the inflorescences and flowers of the developing Mango Tree. It is interesting and hard to imagine how such a small flower can be pollinated and its ovary develops into a huge mango fruit over time.

CERBERA

I was told that this was a Cerbera manghas (common name: Sea Mango; Family: Apocynaceae) when it was planted. But Cerbera manghas it is not.

The true Sea Mango's flowers have a pink to red eye or throat. But this one has a yellow center, much like those of Cerbera odollam (common name: Pong Pong, Suicide Tree).

Anyway, the remnant white calyces (collective term for the sepals) looked like stars. A link on the C. manghas is attached below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerbera_manghas