Flora of the Southern Ridge

[hwchoy]

many flora and insect macro opportunities along the 9km trek through the Southern Ridge…


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a native Leea indica





Passiflora, or passionfruit in English, are vines with beautiful flowers, and some produces delicious edible fruits.

[evershine]

Great! Nice capture..    That "Passiflora" is flower of a passion fruit?  Will try to borrow the macro lens again soon. I don't think i can spot these by myself.

[hwchoy]

passionfruit refers to the edible fruits and the plants that produces them, such as Passiflora laurifolia. There are about 500 species in this genus all with distinctive and mostly decorative flowers. Locally this is called Buah susu, and the Taiwanese calls them 百香果.

don't forget flash also, botanicals in the field are hard to shoot with available light as lighting and situation may be against you (in the shade or against the sky), not to mention the wind that tends to start blowing the moment you achieve focus.

[hwchoy]

since you liked the passiflora, here is another but this one was shot in Khatib Bongsu 2 years ago.


Passiflora foetida

[Michael]

wah nice sia.

this southern ridge, issit that walkway from mount faber to labrador park?

[hwchoy]

Mount Faber to Kent Ridge Park

[evershine]

hwchoy , eh which location did you spot this flower?  mt faber to kent ridge is very long route leh! This is harder than hunting down mas selamat!     When are you going again?

[hwchoy]

would be a saturday early morning. will let you know in advance 

[Michael]

yah, then rain, then no go, then sian, then no show for lunch oso!