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Local flowers

It’s a lazy Sunday so I am sharing some of the photos of flowers I took from around Penang.

I love taking macro shots of flowers because the flowers look really beautiful when I enlarge them as my desktop pictures. I can see the tiny veins, hairy stems, transparent petals of the flowers and all the finer details that normal eyes don’t see.

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This flower is synonymous with tropical beauty. I can’t recall the name of this flower but I know many hotels and travel brochures love to use this.

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This purple flower is some tiny, wild flowers growing wild in the field and we may have overlook them. However, under the eyes of the camera, it looks so lovely.

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This is a common flower grown in Malaysian homes, mostly by the Chinese. The name in Mandarin is Fu Kwei, which signifies something good. Hence, many Chinese like the lucky connotations and plant this flower at their homes. It is a hardy plant and if given the right care, can bloom beautifully.

I uploaded all my photos at Flickr and it is rather fun. Sometimes, someone may like a certain photo I took and labelled them as their favourite. It is indeed a compliment. I also belong to the Flickr flowers group where we have a pool of photos of beautiful flowers from all over the world. So pretty!

Posted by on May 29th, 2005 under plants and nature

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  1. percolator Says:
    May 29th, 2005 at 8:46 pm

    the top one is a variant of heliconias, I believe. B’cos it resembles firecrackers, I usually mix them with pussy willows and cheery blossoms for CNY.

  2. percolator Says:
    May 29th, 2005 at 8:51 pm

    Lilian I’ve been hunting high and low for pics of a type of white fragrant flower. Chinese Bhuddists like to offer these on their alters. I think the Cantonese name is ‘yuk chum’. It has a long fibrous stem with longish white (sometimes yellow or pink) fragrant buds. Leaves are quite indistinct. Don’t know the English name. Have you seen a pic of it?

  3. lilian Says:
    May 29th, 2005 at 8:55 pm

    Hmm? big flower or small flower? Is it the magnolia that Peter Tan blogged about? He blogged about some white flowers with fragrance. Next time I go market I check out this yuk chum?

    Ya, heliconias. I was trying to recall whether it is begonias or what.

  4. Lrong Says:
    May 30th, 2005 at 8:33 am

    The heliconia is one of my favorite flowers… begonias are also nice but they are quite ‘plain’…

  5. percolator Says:
    May 30th, 2005 at 11:59 am

    Small flowers, almost like buds. This one has no branches, just one long stem with ovalish buds on the sides. Size of flowers like the tip of your ring finger. Thick petals, four or five I think. Not round or multilayered soft petals like magnolias, roses etc. Chinese use this for their altars b’cos of the fragrance, no messy leaves, takes up little space.

  6. percolator Says:
    May 31st, 2005 at 8:18 am

    I found it already.. will blog if I’m not too lazy..

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