Thread: Thai flowers, your pictures

^ Not you. That emancipated being up there who was asking where to buy cacti.

Seems this topic has stalled almost 4 months ago, how about I have a go at reviving it.

OK nobody interested so I will continue all on my lonesome.



Monkey orchid.

https://www.google.co.th/?gws_rd=ssl#q=monkey+orchid

Interesting stuff and I only looked at the first site there.

^^ An amazing looking flower.

^^^ Nice too.

Icecream flower.

Keep them coming Birding...I hadn't seen this thread before so thanks for bringing it back to life...

If I get around to posting any photos they will be of the mundane plain old wild flower variety I'm afraid...nothing spectacular....

Nothing wrong with wildflowers Troy, like this little wild vine flower.

Wildflowers in this country can be spectacular, Lotus for instance :











All taken at various swamps around home.

Another small wild vine flower.

When I lived on Phuket I used to the the locals picking those blue flowers... used in cooking I think

aahh.... found it.. http://praneesthaikitchen.com/2012/1...loring-recipe/

Originally Posted by toslti

those blue flowers

Clitoria ternatea. Butterfly pea. Dog mai Anchan. อัญชัน.



Growing about 80 meters of fence of this profuse flowering climbing vine over here (Single blue, double blue and double white flowers). The blue ones are used for drinks, coloring rice and sweets and added to shampoo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitoria_ternatea

Originally Posted by Gipsy

Originally Posted by toslti

those blue flowers

Clitoria ternatea. Butterfly pea. Dog mai Anchan. อัญชัน.



Growing about 80 meters of fence of this profuse flowering climbing vine over here (Single blue, double blue and double white flowers). The blue ones are used for drinks, coloring rice and sweets and added to shampoo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitoria_ternatea

Quite the process to fuse the rice with them....
Not seen much any more - old school.
It's different and adds just a hint of pleasing flavour as well.

The Canon Ball tree ( Couroupita guianensis) is named after the fruit which hang on branches from the lower part of the trunk beneath the leaves. The fruit is edible but rarely eaten my people because it has a bad smell, animals such as pigs have no problem eating it.

It is a native of Central and south America and is grown from seed in many tropical countries including Thailand. It is often seen in temples and the kids tell me that if you clap your hands beneath a flower and a petal falls off you will always have good luck.

The flower :



The lower branches with flowers and fruit.



This tree is beside a road along a klong not far from where I live, I have seen it often as I cycle past and thought it was about time I took its photo.

Thanks for sharing!

^ Looks like it's from the nightshade family...yellow aubergine? (Solanum melongena)...

Or, if really in the wild: Solanum trilobatum?

Solanum trilobatum - Useful Tropical Plants

It was taken in scrub land a bit out of town rather than a garden or N P.

Found growing in several areas of woodland on the edge of the village...

I have been struggling to find out what it is...August. about 18" - 2' tall but didn't get close enough to observe leaf or stalk in detail. Looks somehow familiar but I can't place it....

The flowers look a bit like these that I saw this morning on a vine hanging from trees alongside a road through rice paddy.

Dont know what this little ground hugging vine is called but I call it puncture weed as I'm forever extracting the spiked seeds from by bike tires and fixing the resultant punctures.
I suppose If I stayed on the sealed roads there wouldnt be a problem but things are so much more interesting down the small sois and farm tracks.




The seeds.

Peerple seems to be a popular color for wildflowers in Thailand, a small pompom thingie.

^^ Sensitive plant flower... touch the leaves and they close. (mimosa pudica)

Continuing with the wild ones.



And from the side.



Can see why them red ants bite is so painful.