Sunday, April 3, 2011

Wild flowers in Pulau Ubin

Pulau Ubin boasts of a rich diversity of flora and fauna. While hiking on the island yesterday, I spotted some flowers growing in the wild.
Blue pea flower.

Flower of the winged bean legume.

Wild ginger flower.

A common wild flower called Melastoma malabathricum, sometimes refered to the Singapore rhododendron.

I wonder if this yellow flower is related to the one above.

Strangely this red flower is also found on the same plant that produces the yellow flower (above). I suspect it transforms into yellow flower at a later stage.

2 comments:

  1. perculiar indeed, yellow get transformed to red...

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  2. Fascinating flowers! Amazingly some of them are similar to the blooms I saw at Gasing Hill during our recent hike.

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