Drunken sailor scrambles over the Jackfruit tree

Rangoon Creeper or Drunken Sailor (Quisqualis indica)
It is trained to creep over the Jackfruit tree.
Zone C

The Drunken Sailor or sometimes called the 'Rangoon Creeper' (Quisqualis indica) is seen in the pictures above trained to scramble the Jackfruit tree.  The variety planted here is the single flower form, which is a very robust climber. I normally propagate it from its root suckers that arise from the base of mature plants.

The Drunken Sailor and the Common Iora

The Common Iora (Aegithina tiphia)  is seen moving about the branches of the 'Nangka tree' ( Artocarpus heterophyllus).  The Drunken Sailor plant (Quisqualis indica)  is  trained to scramble the Nangka tree and its  flowers give added beauty to the fruit tree.

The Drunken Sailor and the Common Iora are both on the same Nangka tree. I watched the Common Iora happily moving about the branches looking for insects.  The Common Iora is becoming evermore common at the park now.  They are often seen in pairs.  They visit the park from very early in the morning till about sunset time.  The Drunken Sailor is trained to climb the Nangka tree with the intention that it will attract many birds to its bunchy clusters of red flowers.

Common Iora preying for tiny insects
Location : Zone C

Loving the plants

The Drunken Sailor climbing the Jackfruit tree

 Back again in Bintulu after a 10 days holiday
 in Kuching (14-24 April).  So the first thing I did on a Saturday morning at the park is to take some new pictures of what's new.  Talk about plantlife.  The Drunken Sailor has managed to climb the Jackfruit tree reasonably well.  The Jering tree is flowering while another one has just started to show its beautiful maroon flushes.  The white flowers of the Tabebuia alba stood in sharp contrast to the overall greenery.  Moving about the park, I saw the Hippeastrum hybrid have produced many tulip-like flowers and the Pinang Lakka is everyday showing off its deep orange leaf sheath, Saturday included.  Such is the pleasure of just having a brief Saturday morning walk in the park.

Jering flowers
Zone D

Jering flushes

Mango flushes

White flowers of the Tabebuia alba

White flowers of the Tabebuia alba

Sealing Wax Palm ( Pinang Lakka - Malay) with colourful dark orange sheath

Hippeastrum hybrid
Family : Amaryllidaceae

Hippeastrum hybrid
Family : Amaryllidaceae

Training the Drunken Sailor

The Drunken Sailor (Quisqualis indica) climbing the Nangka tree (Jackfruit) - Artocarpus heterophyllus

 It took about two years to see the Drunken Sailor finally having a good grip at the Jackfruit tree.  One of the concept of the Kambatik garden is to train climbers to creep trees.  By doing so they provide colours as well as attractive to birds.  The flowers are fragrant and produced in large bunches.  One interesting feature is the unusually elongated calyx tube which could be mistaken for  a flower stalk.  Though it can be propagated by cuttings, I find the more successful way is to use the root suckers.  The flowers and leaves are often perforated by beetles and grasshoppers.

Pick of the park - Quisqualis indica

Drunken salior (Quisqualis indica)
Family : Combretaceae - Combretum family