Highlights today at the park - 13 June'16

"Sawit" or Oil Palm fruit bunch cut vertically showing the compact packaging of the fruits.
Zone C

Hippeastrum hybrid
Zone C

Pipit Rawa (Malay) - Chestnut Munia
Zone F

"Sepenuh"( Malay) - Proiphys amboinensis,
Zone C

Little Spiderhunter targeting at the Yellow Ixora
Zone C

Faintly-scented 'Sepenuh' flowers

Lily-type flowers are borne on a long stalk in umbel formation.
Location : Zone C

Heart-shaped leaves

 It is a handsome shade plant that has many ceremonial functions.  Among the Malays the plant is planted in padi fields with the belief that it may help in a bountiful harvest.  The heart-shaped and rounded leaves are used in rituals to get rid off ghosts or spirits from Malay houses.  Belonging to the onion family, its bulbs are used as cure for poison arrows or poisons from some animals.  The flowers are borne on a long inflorescence stalk in a cluster formation called umbel.  The white lily-type flowers are faintly scented and will flower in stages.  The stalk can carry 10 or more buds and would take 1 - 2 weeks to complete the flowering cycle because the buds will open up on separate occasions.

Sepenuh (Malay) - Priophys amboinensis
Syn : Eurycles amboinensis
Family : Amaryllidaceae - Onion Family
Location : Zone C

Garden flowers in close-ups

Flowers in Cu (from top to bottom) :
# Bamboo orchid - Arundina graminifolia
# Canna hybrid - Canna spp.

# Sepenuh - Proiphys amboinensis

# Bromheadia finlaysonia

Today's hightlight at the park

Pinang Lakka - Sealing Wax Palm (Cyrtostachys renda)
Location : Provinsi Lakka, Zone F

Canna Hybrid
Location : Butterfly Garden, Zone C

Heliconia 'Sexy Pink'
Location : Provinsi Lady Palm, Zone C

Sepenuh (Malay) - Proiphys amboinensis
Location : Zone C

Yellow Bamboo - Schizostachyum brachycladum
Location : Botanic Walk, Zone E

Pick of the park - 'Sepenuh' (Malay)

Sepenuh (Malay) - Proiphys amboinensis
Syn: Eurycles amboinensis
Family : Amaryllidaceae - Onion family