Gloriosa superba L. 1753, commonly called Glory Lily, Gloriosa Lily, Lily Vine, Climbing Lily, Flame Lily or Rothschild`s Lily, is a tropical vine, native to Africa, through Asia as far as Australia. The seasonnal dormant Glory Lily can reach, with the help of a climbing support, heights up to about 3 meters, but there are Read More »
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Neolamarckia cadamba (Roxb.) Bosser 1984, commonly called Kadam, Kadamba or Common Bur-Flower, is a big tropical tree, native to South and South-East Asia. The fast growing and evergreen Kadam tree can reach a height up to 45 meters and carries great, religious meaning for both, Hinduism and Buddhism. The name of the Kadam tree refers Read More »
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Nymphaea rubra Roxb. 1808, commonly called Red Indian Water Lily, is a tropical, aquatic plant and widely distributed in Asia, especially in South- and South-East Asia. It was quite a big task for us to shoot the stunning photographies of the Red Indian Water Lily, as we didn`t know, that the beautiful, red flowers open Read More »
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Hoya meliflua Merr. 1918 is a tropical wax flower vine from the dogbane family (Apocynaceae), native to the Philippines. Primarily the tropical plant, with its stunning orange-red flowers, was found on the island of Luzon and has been mistakenly described in 1837 by the Spanish Augustinian friar and botanist Francisco Manuel Blanco (1778 – 1845) Read More »
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Chinese Ginger (Boesenbergia rotunda (L.) Mansf. 1958), with its orchid-like flowers, also called finger root or in Thailand Krachai, is a rhizomatous plant, from the ginger family (Zingiberaceae). Chinese ginger rhizomes are used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and as a spice in the cuisines of South-East Asia, especially Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia. Like many Read More »
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It was a very big task for us to identify this strange looking, tropical ginger plant as Plai (Zingiber cassumunar Roxb. 1810). The story started a few days ago, as we found that ginger flower bracts, which we never saw before, at our local Thai market. What`s that, I asked the old woman, who sold Read More »
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Globba schomburgkii Hook. f. 1876, commonly called Yellow Dancing Girl Ginger, is a tropical, rhizomatous plant, belonging to the ginger family (Zingiberaceae). The Yellow Dancing Girl Ginger (Globba schomburgkii) has been described by the famous English botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) and named in honour to the German explorer Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804 – 1865), Read More »
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Lantana camara L. 1753, also known as Red Yellow Lantana, West Indian Lantana, Spanish Flag or Red Yellow Sage, is a tropical shrub or bush, native to tropical America. The tropical plant with its beautiful two-coloured flowers has become very popular in tropical countries around the world, but escaped cultivation. Nowadays Lantana camara is considered Read More »
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Alpinia purpurata (Vieill.) K. Schum. 1904, commonly called Red Ginger, Red Ginger Lily or Ostrich Plume is a tropical, rhizomatous plant, belonging to the ginger family (Zingiberaceae). Red ginger is native to the Malay Peninsula, but nowadays cultivated in many tropical and subtropical countries around the world for its stunning, bright red flower bracts, which Read More »
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The Lollipop Plant (Pachystachys lutea Nees 1847), also called Golden Shrimp Plant, Yellow Shrimp Plant or Candle Plant, is a small perennial, tropical forb or shrub with woody stems, native to Central and South America. Pachystachys lutea reaches heights of about 1,20 meter. The Lollipop plant, with its curious, showy yellow to orange-yellow flower bracts Read More »
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Crinum x amabile Donn. 1811, commonly called Giant Spider Lily or Queen Emma Lily is a tropical plant belonging to the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae). The Giant Spider Lily with its stunning, highly fragrant, pink flowers is native to Sumatra (Indonesia) and considered as a natural hybrid from Crinum asiaticum and Crinum zeylanicum. Flowers of Crinum Read More »
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Canna x generalis Tropical Salmon is a dwarf Canna cultivar, with stunning, salmon pink flowers and a height of about 1,20 – 1,50 meters. Even if this Canna Lily is often sold as a dwarf type, we saw them in our tropical home country Thailand as tall as the most other Canna hybrids, like Canna Read More »
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Gmelina philippensis Cham. 1832, commonly called Parrots Beak, Hedgehog or Wild Sage, is a tropical shrub with exotic flowers, native to the Philippines, but nowadays spread to many tropical and subtropical countries. Parrots Beak (Gmelina philippensis) belongs to the verbena family (Verbenaceae) and reach a height and width of up to about 5 meters. While Read More »
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Lagerstroemia indica L. 1759, commonly called Crape Myrtle or Crepe Myrtle, is a deciduous, tropical flowering tree native to China, Korea and Japan. Crape Myrtle trees grow up to a height of about 6 meters, with a spread of 6 meters as well. Due to its attractive flowers and due to the tree is one Read More »
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As Agapanthus africanus (L.) Hoffmanns. 1824, commonly called Lily of the Nile, African Lily or Blue Agapanthus is a member of the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae), it`s not a lily (lily family (Liliaceae). Agapanthus is the only genus in the Amaryllidaceae subfamily Agapanthoideae and contains just about 11 species. Lily of the Nile (Agapanthus africanus) is Read More »
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Lemonia (Ravenia spectabilis)
Bulbophyllum orectopetalum
Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi Blume & Rchb. f. 1860
Epidendrum ciliare (Coilostylis ciliaris)
Man of the Earth (Ipomoea pandurata)
Dendrobium infundibulum Lindl.1859
Paphiopedilum insigne
Crimson Bottlebrush (Callistemon citrinus)
Phalaenopsis Golden Beauty
Paphiopedilum parishii
Hoya megalaster
Vandachostylis Thai Sky
Phalaenopsis violacea fo. coerulea Christenson
Oceanblue Morning Glory (Ipomoea indica)
Buddha’s Lamp (Mussaenda philippica var. aurorae)
Hoya waymaniae Kloppenb.1995
Brassia Eternal Wind “Summer Dream”
Phalaenopsis × valentinii
Hoya carnosa white
Cattleya Tainan City
Hoya macgillivrayi F. M. Bailey 1914
Monkey Flower Tree (Phyllocarpus septentrionalis)
Bulbophyllum sikkimense (Cirrhopetalum sikkimense)
Spathoglottis Citrus Cooler Sorbet