Thai flowers, your pictures

**Gipsy** · 04-11-2009, 12:33 AM

Yep. Great flowers. Easy to grow....

**Gipsy** · 06-11-2009, 07:40 PM

Album: Shrubs

308. Brugmansia suaveolens

309. Hibiscus esculentus

310.

311. Euphorbia pulcherrima, double flower variety

312. Euphorbia continifolia, var. atropurpurea

313. Euphorbia continifolia, var. atropurpurea

314. Jasminum

315. Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, spent flower

316. Hibiscus acetosella

317. Hibiscus rosa-sinensis

318. Petrea volubilis

319.

320. Erythrina x bidwillii

321. Erythrina x bidwillii

322. Bauhinia acuminata

323.

324. Callistemon rigidus

325. Hibiscus rosa-sinensis

326. Bougainvillea spectabilis

327.

328. Magnolia

329. Hibiscus acetosella, yellow mutant

330. Cananga odorata

331. Euphorbia continifolia var. atropurpurea

332. Hibiscus sabdariffa

333.

**markmark** · 07-11-2009, 01:04 AM

Lovely pics again Gypsy. Keep up the good work. I will start planting up my new garden in Thailand in January, once the builders have finished I can,t wait. Miserable weather here in the uk just now, all the plants have gone to sleep for the winter. Nice to see pics of plants in blume .

**Gipsy** · 07-11-2009, 09:31 PM

Album: Succulents | Part 1

334. Adenium obesum

335. Adenium obesum x A. swazicum cv. 'Crimson Star'

336. Agave sisalana

337. Agave sisalana, flowerstalk

338. Alludia procera

339. Aloe greatheadii

340. Aloe vera

341. Lithops, mix of species

342. Kalanchoe

343. Euphorbia

344. Euphorbia

345. Euphorbia tirucalli

346. Kalanchoe

347. Echeveria

348. Kalanchoe

349. Sempervivum arachnoideum

350. Kalanchoe

351. Kalanchoe thyrsifolia

352. Aloe brevifolia

353. Kalanchoe tomentosa

354. Euphorbia sp., cristate growing form

355. Kalanchoe tomentosa

356.

357. Adenium obesum

358. Adenium obesum

359. Aloe

360. Adenium obesum

361.

362. Bryophyllum daigremontianum, pink variety

363. Huernia zebrina

364. Euphorbia pulcherrima, yellow variety

365. Adenium obesum

366. Aloe

**Gipsy** · 09-11-2009, 09:24 PM

Album: Succulents | Part 2

367. Agave macrocantha

368. Aloe

369.

370. Aloe

371. Aloe arborescens

372. Adenium obesum

373. Echeveria

374. Sedum

375. Agave mckelveyana

376.

377. Aloe

378. Leaf cuttings

379. Euphorbia

380. Echeveria

381.

382. Kalanchoe rhombopilosa

383.

384. Euphorbia enterophora

385. Euphorbia enterophora

386. Senecio sempervivus

387. Sedum nussbaumerianum

388. Echeveria

389.

390. Mix of Echeveria

391. Portulaca grandiflora

392. Crassula lycopodiodes

393.

394. Kalanchoe aff. marmorata

**markmark** · 10-11-2009, 03:26 AM

Hi Gypsy I think image 310 is Abutilon x hybridum Ashford Red, there is also a golden form. Quite popular now with municipal planting schemes in parks and gardens as summer bedding plants. I like the image of the agave no 375 showing the pseudo barbs along side the real ones. This is plant trickery making the plant less palatable to animals without spending precious energy producing many real barbs.

**Gipsy** · 10-11-2009, 09:42 AM

markmark.... thanks again. Photo 310 for sure is Abutilon x hybridum, only not sure about which cultivar it is: 'Ashford Red' is a candidate, but 'Cerise Queen' with its green calyx, or 'Red Bell' might be as well. Difficult to say, as Abutilon x hybridum comes in too many colors, shades and shapes, much to the delight of the gardeners.

With 2 good names for the 'blanks', you're on the top spot for some Plumeria goodies.... I'm adding a few last albums soon and then all of you have until Christmas to come up with your ID suggestions.

Reminder, from post # 312: 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. long 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....

การตรวจหาชื่อวิทยาศาสตร์ของพืช

**Gipsy** · 10-11-2009, 09:54 AM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Fair enough. I thought the edit button stayed on all the time in this part of the forum, but it seems not.

I'll sort it out for you.

Which reminds me of a promise.... MtD, any progress? Or can anything be done (temporary) at the end of my postings, and when the Teakdorians have come up with a few 'bits 'n pieces'?

**Marmite the Dog** · 10-11-2009, 10:07 AM

Originally Posted by Gipsy

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Fair enough. I thought the edit button stayed on all the time in this part of the forum, but it seems not.

I'll sort it out for you.

Which reminds me of a promise.... MtD, any progress? Or can anything be done (temporary) at the end of my postings, and when the Teakdorians have come up with a few 'bits 'n pieces'?

I meant that I would sort the post out for you, not your disappearing edit button. Only dirtydog can do that.

**Gipsy** · 10-11-2009, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I meant that I would sort the post out for you, not your disappearing edit button. Only dirtydog can do that.

Okay..... throwing the bone!

**Propagator** · 10-11-2009, 04:54 PM

Just a thought Gipsy, maybe on some of your pictures you could add the common name for them. Its OK for those of us that have the knowledge of gardening, but more people would relate to the plant. Just taking two examples Callistemon = bottle brush tree. Brugmansia also Datura known as Angels Trumpet

**Loombucket** · 10-11-2009, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by Propagator

Just a thought, maybe on some of your pictures you could add the common name for them. Its OK for those of us that have the knowledge of gardening, but more people would relate to the plant. Just taking two examples Callistemon = bottle brush tree. Brugmansia also Datura known as Angels Trumpet

I would second that. Having the proper name for things is great for reference but the common name tends to stick in the memory.

A superb collection Gipsy. Thanks very much for sharing.

**Gipsy** · 10-11-2009, 10:11 PM

Propagator, Loombucket (and slackula).... I know, I know, I know……. not everybody can, or want to remember the latin names. Some answers:

1. I even don't know all the scientific names of all the plants I photographed, as you sure have noticed. So 'translating' them into common names is ...uh... difficult. There are also many plants that do not even have a common name, or only a very local one.

2. I'm used to those 'strange' names. These names can be used all over the world. No confusion possible. Read this: Common Names and you'll have to agree

.

3. Many plants have more than one common name. Take for instance the Hibiscus rosa-sinensis:
Common Names : Hibiscus Flower, Lipstick Flower, China Rose, Shoeblack Plant, Kinaros, Aute, Chinese hibiscus, Big Flower, Bunga Raya, Bussoge, Cayena, Ch'ih chin, Chih chin, China-rose, Chinese hibiscus, Chinesischer Roseneibisch, Chu chin, Cin Gulu, Clavel Japones, Feuilles choublak, Gumamela, Hawaiian Hibiscus, Hibiscus, Japa, Jasum, Khatmah Siniyah, Rosa-da-China, Rose de chine, Rose of China, Ru sang, Shoe Flower, Shoe-black, Cha-ba, so which one should I use? And how many I do not know, therefor forget/not mention?

3. If a common name is added, it also would be nice to have the Thai name (maybe even written) so that It would make sense for our Thai partners or be nice to bring along, when hunting for the plant.

4. There are already many databases on the net that will tell you the common names for plants, a few:

Welcome to the PLANTS Database | USDA PLANTS (via search bar)

All the Plants (Common Names)

HortiPlex Plant Database: Info, Images and Links on Thousands of Plants

Common names of plants: Aak to Zyuyaku - Index Page

The Plant Press: Dictionary of Common Names

Index of Common Names: A - Plants For A Future database report

I would love to have a good and easy-to-use database with all the native Thai plants and other tropical plants that can be grown here. But I don't think it should be in this thread. This thread is to show us all" Thai flowers, your pictures". I'm already an 'outsider' here by showing more than just flowers. (and sometimes lengthy texts

)
A lot of universities and organizations are already hard working on this, and a database only works when it's updated regularly. I really have no time for this. If someone else wants to have a go, I'll help, but i 'need' my time in the garden instead of sitting in front of a screen. Let me do the pictures…..

So, if a possibility to edit older posts comes available, and somebody wants my help, we can make a 'multilingual' list of all the plants we can find/buy/grow here in Thailand. But it should be in a separate thread, pinned and updated by a few enthusiasts. Only then it's useful. (And after the plants we can do the fauna of Thailand, not?) And it will not be an easy task...... Who?

**Loombucket** · 11-11-2009, 12:12 AM

Originally Posted by Gipsy

Let me do the pictures…..

Sure, you do them so well. We'll worry about the complicted stuff later.

Thanks for the links.

**Gipsy** · 12-11-2009, 12:13 AM

Album: Trees

395. Eucalyptus deglupta

396. Butea monosperma

397. Butea monosperma

398. Artabotrys siamensis

399. Cassia surattensis

400. Calotropis gigantea

401.

402. Tabebuia

403. Radermachera ignea

404. Radermachera ignea

405.

406. Bauhinia

407.

408.

409.

410.

411.

412. Tabebuia roseo alba

413. Lagerstroemia speciosa

414. Delonix regia

415. Delonix regia

416. Spathodea campanulata

417. Tabebuia chrysotricha

418. Tabebuia

**markmark** · 12-11-2009, 06:24 AM

Just a guess 159. Peperomia caperata, (I could do with those cuttings)

**Gipsy** · 12-11-2009, 09:16 AM

Good guess again. 159. Peperomia caperata.... Keep guessing! With 3 good answers you're ahead of the wolf pack! The plumerias are shedding their leaves now and it will take them another month to go dormant. Only then I will start taking cuttings... In the meantime I will enjoy their last flowers and ask them who wants to live in Ban Kud Lom...

**markmark** · 13-11-2009, 04:20 AM

410. looks like a Magnolia flower possibly x soulangeana ,hard to tell .not so easy when you cant see the whole plant. Shall I get the cutting nursery bed prepaired in anticipation ?

**Gipsy** · 13-11-2009, 10:11 AM

No... lean back!

This is not a magnolia. Magnolia's are white, yellow, cream to purplish pink and everything in between. This one sure is red, dark red once the flower opens and is up in the tree. And a different tree. Huge and a few near my house.

I think it's a Bombax, but not sure which specie. It looks like Bombax cheida, only the flowers not open that wide and the color seems like deeper red. It's growing form, foliage and seedpots resembles B. cheida; it might just be a local variety....

Bombax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bombax ceiba - Red silk cotton tree, kapok (Bombacaceae) - Plants of Hawaii - Images by Forest & Kim Starr

That photo (410) is of a spent one. Before one of the neighbors got it!

The minute these flowers start dropping, the whole village gets 'nervous'. They collect them in big bags, then sit down somewhere in the shadow and remove the petals and sepals, leaving them the reproductive parts (pistil + filaments). Then they head home and brew themselves a lovely soup. I knew the name of that dish, and tasted it, but forgot. Will ask again. Obviously it only takes a few flowers to add the flavour as during the 2 weeks they drop I see people drive by, park their motorbike, collect a handful of flowers and move on...

The leftovers..

Top half of the tree.

**Gipsy** · 13-11-2009, 10:33 PM

Album: Water plants

419.

420. Nelumbo nucifera

421. Sagittaria

422.

423.

424. Nymphaea lotus cv.

425. Victoria amazonica

426. Cyperus papyrus

427. Nelumbo nucifera, seedpod

428. Sagittaria latifolia

429. Nymphaea lotus cv.

430.

431. Nymphaea lotus cv.

432. Nymphaea lotus cv.

433. Nymphaea lotus cv.

434. pontederia cordata

435. Nymphaea lotus cv.

436. Thalia dealbata

437. Nymphaea lotus cv.

438. Nymphaea lotus cv.

439. Nymphaea stellata

440. Nymphaea lotus cv.

441. Nymphaea lotus cv.

442. Nymphaea lotus cv.

443. Nymphaea lotus cv.

444. Sagittaria

445. Nymphoides

446.

447.

448. Hydrocleys nymphoides

449.

**markmark** · 14-11-2009, 02:06 AM

Thanks for putting me right with the Bombax tree. Bombax malabaricum is native to S.E Asia and is a relative of the cotton tree family. Your photos of aquatic plants are quite stunning really, brilliant.

**slackula** · 14-11-2009, 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by markmark

Your photos of aquatic plants are quite stunning really, brilliant.

Gipsy's photos of pretty much anything are stunning! #446 is beautiful

*jealous*

**Gipsy** · 14-11-2009, 11:42 PM

Hmm! Another blank spot replaced by a good name. Start digging!

410. Bombax ceiba

Bombax malabaricum is just one of many synonyms for Bombax ceiba.

Synonyms : Bombax heptaphyllum, Bombax malabaricum, Gossampinus heptaphylla, Gossampinus malabaricus, Salmalia malabarica.

Assamese: Himila, Himolu.

Bengali: Katseori, Roktosimul.

Burmese: Didu, Lepanbin, Letpan.

Chinese: 木棉 Mu mian (as B. malabaricum).

Dutch: Simalboom, Randoe alas (as G. heptaphylla), Zijdekapokboom .

English: Indian cottonwood, Indian kapok, Kapok tree, Red cottontree, Red-flowered silk-cotton tree, Red silk-cotton, Red silk-cotton tree, Shaving brush, Silk cottontree, Simal tree.

French: Arbre bombax, Fromager.

German: Indischer Seidenwollbaum, Semul, Roter Seidenwollbaum.

Greek: Βόμβαξ ο μαλαβαρικός Vomvax malavarikos.

Hindi: Kaantisenbal, Kantisembal, Rakat senbal, Semal, Semar kanda, Semul, Semur, Shembal, Shimbal, Simal, Simul

Khmer: Roka.

Nepalese: Simal.

Portugese: Algodoeiro do mato, Bombax, Bonga, Borracha, Borracho, Cartageno, Ceiba, , Kapok, Paineira da India, Panha, Panheira.

Spanish: Arbol capoc, Arbol kapok.

Sanskrit: Shaalmali, Shalmali.

Tagalog:Buboi gubat, Malabulak, Taglinau.

Tamil: Ilavu, Puulaa, Mullilavu.

Thai : งิ้ว Ngio, งิ้วบ้าน Ngio ban, งิ้วแดง Ngio daeng, งิ้วปง Ngio pong, งิ้วปงแดง Ngio pong daeng, งิ้วหนาม .

Visayan : Salay, Talutu.

**Gipsy** · 14-11-2009, 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by slackula

*jealous*

Jealous? How about an afternoon outdoors and making me jealous?

**Gipsy** · 15-11-2009, 10:15 PM

Album: Weeds

After selecting the photo's for this latest album, the truly invasive species of weeds in my garden and elsewhere, I thought..... "No, this is too much, too ugly for them to be pestered with".
Therefore I have them all lumped together in this photo of my favorite pastime ...

This afternoon in the garden

450. Runco sativa turpis

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