Showing posts with label Botanical Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Botanical Garden. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Monday, January 5, 2009

Pitcher Plants Exhibition in Penang Botanical Garden










For those who are interested in Pitcher Plants or Carnivorous Plants , go to website :

http://www.petpitcher.com

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Botanical Garden - Kinabalu Park

Botanical Garden














The rainforests in Sabah are some of the oldest in the world.

In the Botanical Garden, there are exotic flora and fauna abound. Wild orchids of every imaginable hue. Pitcher plants that gulp down insects and flies.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Mt.Kinabalu Botanical Garden - Sabah, Malaysia

Mt. Kinabalu Botancial garden














We went tracking inside the Mt.Kinabalu Botanical Garden where you find many wild orchids, forna and fauna. It was an interesting trail and you will find it an adventure.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Have you seen a Cannon Ball Tree with its beautiful flowers in the Park ?

Cannon Ball Tree
























A beautiful fast growing tree, medium built, free flowering reaches 15 metres in height. The leaves have a life span approximately 6 months after which they are shed so rapidly that the crown is usually bare for a day or two.
A remarkable flowering tree bearing large pinkish red, fragrant waxy flowers borne on tree trunk via long woody twigs.
Later, followed by large reddish brown globular fruits, which attain the size of human head, takes about 8-9 months to ripen and contains a mass of sour smelling pulp.
Ideally grown in large gardens & parks.

Visitors