Thread: Thai flowers, your pictures

Beautiful cattlaya hybrid!!!

Originally Posted by Tinker2

This orchid is about three years old. It blooms all year, but is especially productive during the cold season.

Phaleanopsis hybrid

Delonix regia also known under several other names of Royal Poinciana, Peacock flower, Flame tree or Flamboyant. Thai name Haang-nok-yung-farang




The Cassia fistula, also known as the Golden Rain Tree, Golden shower or Indian Laburnum. Thai name Khuun

Originally Posted by Propagator

Delonix regia also known under several other names of Royal Poinciana, Peacock flower, Flame tree or Flamboyant. Thai name Haang-nok-yung-

They are called Poiciana in Australian but more well known by the common of Flame Tree, made famous by the band Cold Chisel.

'The flame trees will blind the lonely driver, but there's nothing else can set fire to this town'

Grafton, NSW north coast.

The Midget loves her orchids and has quite a collection now. I took a few snaps but it was raining and the cold rain tickles somewhat, so I retired inside again.













She also likes these things, but I've no idea what they are. Looks like a mini carnation.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I took a few snaps but it was raining and the cold rain tickles somewhat, so I retired inside again.

Nice ones Marmite. I always feel that a few raindrops on the flower head make them look much more spectacular.

Fellow gardeners and photographers...

A question from a gardener with a camera.... I have a lot of plant pictures. I made a selection to show here... But not all of them are flowers only. Some of the pixx show seeds, fruits, bark, strange colored leaves and other details osf plant life, and all are growing and photographed here in Thailand. Because the title thread says "Thai Flowers, your pictures" I'm curious whether 'off topic' plant pictures would be allowed and/or appreciated.

Don't worry, I'm not going to show you trees at great distance, or a bunch of boring root systems, (I'll keep those to myself ). If there's another thread where they would fit in better, or if I should start a new one, tell me...

If... nobody starts moaning the next couple of days, I will start posting as soon as I have uploaded them all. Let's see when the withdrawal symptoms strike...

^ Just post them.

Okay, here we go.... I've put my pictures in albums and that's how I will post them. I will add a number to each photo (bottom left), so if you want to say/ask about a particular photo, just refer to the number. Not all of them will have the proper names, partly because I'm to lazy to look (often I know the genus or the way to treat them) or because I simply don't know....

The person who fills in the most blanks, or can correct the name I gave, will get a reward when I'm done posting all my photo's. Prize would be something like 10 unrooted 40 cm. cuttings of different varieties of Plumeria, or if you prefer, a big bag of fresh Plumeria seeds, send by post in Thailand, or a bit bigger cuttings when the winner is close to Chiang Mai, so I can drop them off. Have fun....

Album: Bamboos



001. Budding shoots of Dendrocalamus giganteus



002. Close up shoot Dendrocalamus giganteus



003. The papery 'leaves' protecting new bamboo shoots split open, curl up, then fall of.


Album: Banana's



004. Leaf of a variegated banana.



005. Emerging flowers Musa velutina.



006. Fruit of Musa velutina



007. Flower of Musella lasiocarpa.



008. Flowers of an ordinary hybrid Musa plant, and some wanted guests.

Album: Begonia's



009. Begonia



010. Begonia


011. Begonia



012. Begonia



013. Begonia



014. Begonia



015. Begonia



016. Begonia (wild Thai specie growing under bamboo near stream)



017. Begonia



018. Begonia



019. Begonia



020. Begonia



021. Begonia



022. Begonia



023. Begonia



024. Begonia

Originally Posted by Gipsy

I'm curious whether 'off topic' plant pictures would be allowed and/or appreciated.

Stunning and greatly appreciated. Well done.

Originally Posted by Norton

Stunning and greatly appreciated. Well done.

Indeed, green sent to Gipsy, lovely pics.

Album: Bromeliads



025. Neoregelia




026. Orthophytum or Cryptanthus




027. Cryptanthus




028. Neoregelia




029. Neoregelia




030. Cryptanthus




031. Aechmea fasciata




032. Aechmea fasciata




033.




034. Tillandsia ionantha




035. Neoregelia




036. Aechmea gamosepala




037. Ananas lucidus




038. Orthophytum gurnekii




039. Guzmania




040. Orthophytum gurnekii




041. Puya mirabilis




042. Neoregelia




043. Orthophytum gurnekii




044. Cryptanthus




045. Aechmea gamosepala




046.




047.




048. Neoregelia




049. Aechmea fasciata




050. Ananas lucidus




051. Ananas comosus, color variety




052. Ananas comosus




053. Ananas variety



054. Vriesia splendens




055. Guzmania




056. Vriesia




057.




058. Tillandsia usneoides




059. Tillandsia ionantha

Gipsy, we have TD photo contest on occasion. Subjects vary contest to contest. All amateur pics. No professionals allowed.

You do realize you will be unable to participate if the subject is flowers.

I am speechless, i think i will take up golf

Norton, slackula, wichenburi, Thanks! Just sharing what I see around me almost every day.... last and biggest album will be "weeds"



Album: Cacti




060. Astrophytum capricorne




061. Cereus jamacaru




062. Cereus species, cristate growing form




063. Echinopsis specie and flowers of an Adenium obesum




064. Lophophora williamsii




065. Mammillaria




066. Mammillaria schumannii




067. Mammillaria schumannii




068. Opuntia cochenillifera, spent flower




069. Pereskia bleo




070. Pereskia bleo, flower and semi-ripe seedlob




071. Echinocactus grusonii




072. Parodia magnifica




073. Ferocactus fordii




074. Rhipsalis floccosa

Originally Posted by Gipsy

Opuntia cochenillifera

Gipsy, may I make a suggestion? Could you also post the English/common names of these flowers? I see lots that I recognise but have always wondered what their common names are

Don't be a lazy git. Google is your friend.

Pereskia bleo

Rose Cactus

slackula, yes many names are tongue-twisters and you have to keep an eye on the screen while typing.... "prickly pear' would have been easier in this case, but I'm not sure everybody would understand.

Following text taken from the net:

• Why do we use those hard-to-pronounce scientific names of plants? Is it out of smugness? Wouldn't it be more "democratic" to use the common monikers (or "nicknames") that everyone can understand, instead of the scientific names of plants?
• Ironically, that's just the point: Not everyone can understand what particular specimens are being referred to by those charming old nicknames. The latter vary not only from language to language, but even from region to region. Thus we inject too much confusion into the discussion when we forgo using scientific names of plants in favor of their nicknames. In fact, even within the same region a specimen may well have more than one nickname attributed to it. Or in some cases, none exists at all for a given specimen. Worse yet, two specimens quite unrelated may share the exact same nickname!
•
• Scientific Names of Plants to the Rescue!
• It was to combat such confusion that Swedish naturalist Carolus (Carl) Linnaeus (1707-1778) developed what is known as the binomial system for taxonomy -- in other works, the use of scientific names for plants. "Binomial" means that two words are used for classification purposes, and those two words are in Latin (or Latinized, at least). You may remember from History class that Latin was once the universal language of Western scholars. And it is that very universality that is stillGlechoma hederacea, for instance, into the Google search engine, by about the fourth page of results you'll see that some of the entries are in languages other than English. That's universality for you, and that's the beauty of the scientific names of plants.

and


Plant Naming

• The method of naming living things using 'Latinised' names was introduced to end the ambiguity of local names or common names, which can refer to different organisms depending on the country or region. The system was first devised early in the eighteenth century by a Swede, Carl von Linné, who adopted a Latin name for himself - Linnaeus. It was applied to plants in 1753 and to animals in 1756.

• Plant names are usually descriptive, from the features of a plant (repens - creeping), who first discovered it (wilsonii), or its country of origin (lusitanica - Portugal). Since the names are not always based in Latin it is probably more accurate to describe it as the botanical, scientific or approved name, although it is usually written in a Latin form. 
The "International Code of Botanical Nomenclature" is an agreement between botanists around the world to follow the Binomial System of naming. The International Congress of Nomenclature is the committee which meets every four years to decide on any additions or changes to the naming of organisms.

• Every plant is given its own name, so there should not be any confusion when ordering plants for the garden. If common names were used and you asked for bluebells, you could get Campanula rotundifolia in Scotland, Hyacinthoides non-scripta in England or one of several Penstemon and Mertensia in North America.

• The name is in two parts (Binomial System), first the Genus starting with a capital letter followed by the Species, with the first letter in lower case, eg. Sorbus aria - common name Whitebeam. (In print the Genus and Species are usually set out in italics.)
◦ The Genus name is often shortened to a capital letter if it has already been used and another Species in that Genus is referred to, eg. S. aucuparia - Mountain Ash.
◦ The Species may be further divided into Subspecies (subsp. or ssp.), eg. Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii
◦ Due to geographic and ecological differences, variations arise within a Species giving rise to a Varitey name (var.). A Variety is usually Latinised, written in italics and the abbreviation var. is sometimes included, eg. Geranium sanguinium var. striatum.
◦ When this variation is due to selective breeding it is called a Cultivar (cv.). A Cultivar name is not usually Latinised and is printed in standard type, but with a capital letter, and it is placed in inverted commas eg. Geranium cinereum 'Ballerina'. Often the Species name is left out and the Genus is followed by the Cultivar name, eg. Cotoneaster 'Autumn Fire'.
◦ When hybridization occurs between two Species the name of the resulting plant contains elements of the parental names connected by a multiplication sign (x), eg. Corokia x virgata.
◦ Where the hybridization is between two Genera - a rare occurance - the cross is placed at the begining of the name, eg. x Fatshedera lizei - between a false castor oil plant (Genus Fatsia) and an ivy (Genus Hedera).
◦ Despite all the care taken to give one name to each plant, some have more than one acceptable name. This usually occurs when a plant is reclassified due do more up-to-date methods of identification and the old name remains in use. In this case the other name or synonym (syn.), is sometimes included on the label, eg. Verbena bonariensis syn. V. patagonica.

Try to say these 3 times in a row, preferably with a mouthful of dry biscuit crumbs: Ornithogalum adseptentrionesvergentulum, Crepidiastrixeris denticulatoplatyphylla and Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron…

Originally Posted by Norton

Don't be a lazy git. Google is your friend.

Tell that to Wordsworth!

I WANDERED lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils Narcissus pseudonarcissus L.

Enough words, back to the ...uh... plantae!


Album: Climbers




075. Bauhinia aureifolia, tendrils




076. Clematis smilacifolia, flower not yet fully open.




077.




078. Ipomea (purpurea, violacae?)




079. Aristolochia ringens




080. Hoya (bella?)




081. Hoya carnosa, cv. rubra




082. Pyrostegia venusta




083. Pyrostegia venusta




084. Passiflora coccinea




085.




086. Gloriosa superba, branch looking for support




087. Gloriosa superba




088. Bauhinia aureifolia




089.




090.




091. Strongylodon macrobotrys




092. Strongylodon macrobotrys, flowers opening




093. Strongylodon macrobotrys, flowers fully open and the right intensity of color.

Album: Coleus/Solenostemon




094. Coleus/Solenostemon




095. Coleus/Solenostemon




096. Coleus/Solenostemon




097. Coleus/Solenostemon




098. Coleus/Solenostemon




099. Coleus/Solenostemon




100. Coleus/Solenostemon




101. Coleus/Solenostemon




102. Coleus/Solenostemon




103. Coleus/Solenostemon




104. Coleus/Solenostemon




105. Coleus/Solenostemon

Etiamnunc magis decorus statua

Salve slackulaudator….O! Plus! Perge! Aio! Hui! (Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes)…Absit invidia!
Hem! Inter nos, id est panem et circuses, gratia placenti. Bis repetita placent…
Amoto quaeramus seria ludo; et lingua…hem…Franca.


Album: Cordyline





106. Cordyline




107. Cordyline




108. Cordyline




109. Cordyline




110. Cordyline




111. Cordyline




112. Cordyline