FLOWERS POWER - BAY SOUTH

When I looked back at the more recent posts, they were hardly on plants and I talked more about the movies I watched instead. I guess it's time to go back to plants since that is what this blog is primarily about. It's not easy to juggle a few blogs, on top of managing my 2 home marine aquariums, even though they are really small.

Anyway, just 2 weeks ago, Gardens by the Bay was abuzz with lots of flowers. To cut things short, I will just list down the locations and species that I am highlighting here:

• Chinese Garden - Mayodendron igneum (Synonym: Radermachera ignea), Phyllocarpus septentrionalis which I saw flowering for the first time since I have not seen the one I planted in HortPark in bloom before, Cymbidium ensifolium, Hibiscus mutabilis 
• Hub & Colonial Garden - Grammatophyllum speciosum which was flowering synchronously in the gardens where some had at least 13 spikes when we counted them
• Meadows & Baby - Posoqueria latifolia, Calotropis gigantea and Afgekia sericea
• Discovery - Commelina (Family: Commelinaceae) with blue flowers

BIGNONIACEAE

Unlike the Melastomataceae plants, these are plants from the Bignoniaceae Family. They are Thunbergia erecta, Radermachera "Kunming" and Jacaranda obtusifolia and some of the typical characteristics are:

• opposite leaves
• trumpet-shaped flower with a fused corolla
• zygomorphic (bilateral symmetry) flower 2+3
• 2 or 4 stamens
• winged seed
• estipulate