Delonix regia 鳳凰木

Delonix regia is a beautiful flowering tree, with fern-like leaves and fiery red flowers. It is also called Flame of the forest or peacock flowers. The flowers are big and in very striking red color. It makes great ornament tree and a great sight to see when it is in full bloom. It can also provide shades as the tree has dense leaves and the branches spread widely.

Zinnia

Zinnias are popular garden flowers, grown from seeds and have a wide range of bright colors. Gardeners like to add Zinnias in their garden to attract butterflies.

Heliconia 赫蕉屬

Heliconia, also known as Lobster claw or false bird-of-paradise, are beautiful, exotic plants which often used by florists as cut flowers and also for landscaping .

Heliconia Mariae - Beef steak heliconia

This is the first time I saw Beef steak heliconia. It looked exactly like a steak from afar.

Heliconia Mariae



Heliconia vellerigera which I gave a nickname Hairy Heliconia.

Heliconia rostrata - Fishtail heliconia

Heliconia bihai - firebird or macaw flower

Heliconia rostrata

Common Crape-myrtle - 紫薇

The Common Crape-myrtle ( Lagerstroemia indica , 紫薇 ) is one of the many beautiful flowers that captured our attention these past few months. Penang is blooming with flowers lately. It started with the Tabebuia rosea which many crazed over in late February and early March. Now is the season for the Common Crape-myrtle. It did not create a storm like Tabebuia rosea but it certainly did capture both me and my husband's attention.

The species , Lagerstroemia indica, has flowers which are in panicles of white, pink, mauve, purple or carmine with crimped petals. The one I captured is of beautiful purple color.

Sea Hibiscus

Beauties in the sky

Flowers and fruits

Beautiful and relaxing beach

Yellow sea hibiscus- Hibiscus calyphyllus

Flowers on the sand

Orange-pink hibiscus

I captured the sea hibiscus while on a road trip around Langkawi Island. I have never seen this orange-pink type before and was fascinated by its color. They created a beautiful sight when they fell on the beach.

More information on Langkawi can be found at

http://www.asiaexplorers.com/malaysia/langkawi_travel_guide.htm

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