On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 02:56:56 +0000 (UTC),
(mel turner) wrote:

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I made a mistake. The photos are actually at:

http://photos.yahoo.com/shahswim

#1 looks like Brassaia [Shefflera] actinophylla [Araliaceae],
which is Australian but has lots of relatives. Was it cultivated
or wild?

#2 may be Morinda
http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/plants/morinda.htm

#3 -- Don't know. A big sedge?

#4 -- don't know.

#5 Staghorn fern, Platycerium sp. [possibly the commonly cultivated P.
bifurcatum.]

#6 Looks like Allamanda cathartica
http://www.apsssnet.com/skl/project/flower/tropicf1.htm

It is Allamanda cathartica.

#7 Erythrina sp.

Erythrina crista-galli

#8 It's a large coarse species of maidenhair fern, genus Adiantum.
Adiantum trapeziforme rings a bell as being one such, but no doubt
there are others.

#9. Mussaenda? the white bracts look distinctive. Compa
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...hrophylla.html

Mussaenda phillippica


#10. It's a palm, Johannesteijsmannia sp.

#11. Plumeria rubra [Frangipani]

#12 Myrtaceae of some sort?
Looks like Xanthostemon chrysanthus


#13 Mussaenda sp. [Rubiaceae]
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b...2/musaenda.htm
[Similar to #9, but pink?]
Mussaenda erythrophylla

#14 Bignoniaceae
Tecoma stans (Stenolobium or Tecomaria stans)

#15 It's an Asian vine snake [genus Ahaetulla]. e.g., see
http://zoltantakacs.com/zt/pw/sn/s06.shtml
Rear-fanged, arboreal lizard eaters, [but harmless to people], very
similar in appearance and way of life to the tropical American vine
snakes of the genus Oxybelis [a neat case of convergent evolution in
distantly-related snakes]

Hope that helps.

cheers

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On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 02:56:56 +0000 (UTC),
(mel turner) wrote:

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#7 Erythrina sp.

Erythrina crista-galli

[...]

#9. Mussaenda? the white bracts look distinctive. Compa
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...hrophylla.html

Mussaenda phillippica

[...]

#12 Myrtaceae of some sort?
Looks like Xanthostemon chrysanthus

#13 Mussaenda sp. [Rubiaceae]
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b...2/musaenda.htm
[Similar to #9, but pink?]
Mussaenda erythrophylla

#14 Bignoniaceae
Tecoma stans (Stenolobium or Tecomaria stans)

Thanks for the information!

cheers

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On 11 Dec 2002 07:31:24 -0800, (swim learning)
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(mel turner) wrote in message ...
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#11. Plumeria rubra [Frangipani]

Thanks a lot for the valuable comments. I thought Frangipani had white
flowers. The plant in photo 11 has pink-ish flowers. Moreover, the
leaves are not as thick and leathery as the white Frangipani tree.

There are 3 species of the Frangipani cultivated in Singapore.

1. Plumeria acuminata - flowers 4-5 cm across, white with a yellow
centre, leaves with pointed tips.

2. Plumeria obtusa (Plumeria alba) the Great Frangipani - flowers
larger and white, leaves with blunt tips.

3. Plumeria rubra, the Common Frangipani - smaller tree with low
branches, flowers red, leaves pointed.

Other hybrids are occasionally seen - resembling the P. rubra with
flowers white, white with yellow centre, and pink.

The photo shot 11 showed Plumeria rubra - a common sight on traffic
islands in Singapore.

On 11 Dec 2002 07:31:24 -0800, (swim learning)
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Thanks a lot for the valuable comments. I thought Frangipani had white
flowers. The plant in photo 11 has pink-ish flowers. Moreover, the
leaves are not as thick and leathery as the white Frangipani tree.

There are pink Frangipanis too


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