Flowering Ornamentals

This rare yellow species of the royal poinciana flower (Delonix regia) has been grafted onto a tree of the more common red poinciana,
creating a tree which produces dual blossoms.

Tembusu (Fagraea fragrans)

New Guinea Creeper (Tecomanthe venusta)

A very rare, beautiful flowering vine with large clusters of 3-5 inch pink/purple tubular flowers. It originates from Indonesia and New Guinea. Sometimes blooms sporadically year-round but primarily in spring and summer. Full sun to partial shade. A thick stemmed member of the trumpet vine family, growing with support to 20-30' high. The leaves can be 1' or more long, with large, deep green leaflets which have a lacquered surface. The flowers are modest for a trumpet vine, though borne in broad, dense clusters. They are a little over an inch long, tubular with a 2-lipped �face�, and creamy white in color.

Jacaranda (Jacaranda mimosifolia)

Native to Brazil and other parts of tropical and sub-tropical South America. Jacarandas are fast growing trees with soft graceful fern-like foliage. The Jacaranda is a deciduous tree forming a rounded crown, and they respond well to pruning but tall vertical shoots may grow from these cuts detracting from their natural ornate shape. Jacarandas will shed their leaves during the winter often turning rich yellow before falling, in cooler areas

Tree of Sadness/Night-blooming Coral Jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis)

Other names: Sephalika (Sanskrit); Siuli (Bengali); Harsinghar (Hindi); Pavalamalligai (Tamil)

Native to India. Reaching to about four metres in height, Nyctanthes prefers a secluded and semi-shady place to grow. Leaves are oval with pointed tips, toothed at the edges and rough on the upper surface. Its flowers are arranged at the tips of branches terminally and in the axils of leaves. Flowers are waxy white, the star-like corollas five to seven lobed and with coral orange tubes. Fruits are compressed, round and two seeded. The leaves are used like sandpaper to polish wood. From the tubes, a not so fast dye is extracted for colouring silk. Nyctanthes is a small tree of the jasmine family, having brilliant, highly fragrant flowers, which bloom at night and fall off before sunrise, giving the ground underneath a pleasing blend of white and red. Thus during the day the plant loses all its brightness, and hence is called "Tree of Sadness" (arbor-tristis). Nyctanthes means "that which blossoms at nightfall. Prolifically grown all over India, one story woven around the tree is about Parijataka, a princess. She fell in love with the sun-god, but when he deserted her another girl, she committed suicide and a tree sprung from the ashes. Unable to stand the sight of the lover who left her, the tree flowers only at night and sheds them like tear-drops before the sun rises. In Ayurvedic practices, fresh leaves are used medicinally as an expectorant, bitter and tonic, febrifuge, and mild purgative. Also used in bilious and obstinate remittent fever, sciatica, rheumatism, and constipation of children.

Pride of Burma (Amherstia nobilis)

This stunning tree is the only member of the genus Amherstia. Endemic to Burma in Southeast Asia, this species is often cultivated as an ornamental for its extremely showy flowers. The extravagant flowers are seen hanging from the long inflorescence, or flower stalk, which is a bright crimson red at the end. There are 5 petals although 2 of these are minute and the rest are of unequal size. The petals are also crimson; the two medium sized petals are yellow at the tip and the largest petal is broad and fan-shaped with a wavy upper margin and a yellow triangle of colour extending from the lip down into the flower. This large petal may be 7.5 centimetres long and over 4 centimetres wide at the end. There are either 9 or 10 stamens, 9 of which are partially fused into a pink sheath; the stamens are of two differing lengths with the longer ones having larger anthers. The compound leaves bear 6 - 8 large leaflets; these are broadly oblong in shape and are a whitish colour underneath. The fruits, or seedpods, are 11 to 20 centimetres long. They are roughly scimitar-shaped and the woody outer case opens to disperse the seeds.

Rose of Venezuela (Brownea macrophylla)

In the Caesalpiniaceae family. This plant is part of a group of "hankerchief" trees because of the way their new leaves hang from the branches. Bright red clusters grow directly on the trunk and branches, which makes it a "cauliflory." This botanical term may be literally translated into "stem-flower." Under a strict definition it refers to flowers and inflorescences that develop directly from the trunks, limbs and main branches of woody plants.

Ashoka, Sorrowless Tree of India (Saraca asoca)

Caesalpaeniaceae family. It is said that Lord Buddha was born under the Ashoka tree, making it one of the most legendary and sacred trees of India, and often planted in monasteries. An evergreen tree with multi-medicinal Ayurvedic purposes, it produces fragrant, bright orange-yellow flowers, which later turn red. Found in the central and eastern Himalayas, northern India, west coast of Bombay, and Sri Lanka. A member of the family of "handkercheif" trees, which also include Amherstia and Brownea.

Desert Rose (Adenium obesum)

Ficus (Ficus dammaropsis)

This unusual fig from the rain forests of New Guinea has large leaves up to two feet wide and three feet long. The leaves are used by indigenous people of New Guinea for wrapping pork and for lining their cooking ovens. The bark is used in making string and head coverings. The large syconium (multiple fruit) are about the size of a baseball. Because this species is so unusual among figs, it was once classified as a separate genus and species Dammaropsis kingiana.

Pak Lan, White Sandalwood (Michelia alba) Native to the Yunan Province of China. Fast-growing shade tree that can also be grown in a container. Evergreen tree related to the Magnolia family. The beautiful, fragrant flowers are highly prized in Asia for their exotic scent, and bloom on and off all year long. Most commonly propagated by air-layering or grafting onto a close relative; germination rate from seed are extremely low.

Samachalan

Native to India, related to the pak lan flower of China. Flowers are off-white in color an extremely fragrant. Unlike the pak lan, blossoms are seasona, but bloom frequently during that time.

Lotus flower (Nelumbo nucifera)

This sun-loving water plant is very easy to grow. The exquisite lotus flower rises above the water and is usually white or pink, with a large number of petals and large, circular thick leaves. The leaves are sometimes, and the flowers always, raised above the water surface . This beautiful and fragrant flower blooms only for one day. Tubers or bulbs are used for planting, seeds can also be used to make new seedlings.

Bali Pink

White lotus

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