Thread: Thai flowers, your pictures

^^ Ooooh, I love that luscious orange one, Sabang. Reminds me of sherbet.

Night blooming lily

Few more:

Lovely FF. Very exotic.

Nice shots Frankie

These are Vandas






The others are Cattlelya.

All very nice and large specimens


E. G.

Got no idea what sort of plants these are but took the shots while kicking back next to the pool at the Veranda Lodge Hua Hin and playing with the new camera.

don't know of the first one, similar to the BIrd of Paradise but not quite. They grow like weeds all over southern (eastern that I know of) Thailand.

The second is the standard Dendrobium, seen everywhere in Thailand. Thousands of flower spikes exported every day.

E. G.

It is the Heliconia rostrata, there is also the Heliconia humilis and Heliconia psittacorum which both have upright blooms. AS EG said it is also known as the False Bird of Paradise or Lobster Claw. Likes moist soil.

In Thai Thammaraksaa

I don't know the name of this aquatic plant, but it is a great nitrogen eater and keeps the pond nice and clear. Every once in a while it sprouts some tiny little flowers at the end of the thread-like stem. I added the arrow to help you find it:



The insect at the top is one of those water bigs that can skate along the surface of the pond. The spider on the lower lily pad is one of many in our pond. They hang out on the lily pads and catch insects that happen by.

The small gold fish at the right is from the second batch hatched in the pond.

Here is a picture of a climber that I bought last year in Feb. At the time of purchase was about 2 to 3 ft tall. Over the space of 11 months has now grown to cover the trellis, about 7 ft tall with a spread of about 20ft.



The picture only shows the flower.

I have no idea what the Thai's call this and have been unable to find any reference to it in the Asian flower ref book I have. So any help on identification would be appreciated. I believe it to be a member of the Passion flower family ie Passiflora, and to be more exact the Passiflora antioquiensis. Unfortunately it was planted in an area shade by the house for most of the day.

The pictures below show the leaf, flower and fruit which is known as the passion fruit when fully ripened. One picture shows the fruit cut in half.





If someone can give me the Thai name for this a greenie will wing its way to you.

I will post a picture of the trellis later.

The Thai name for edible Passionfruit is 'Sao Wah Rohs' prop.

Passiflora Edulis / P. Edulis Flavacarpa

Originally Posted by sabang

The Thai name for edible Passionfruit is 'Sao Wah Rohs' prop. Passiflora Edulis / P. Edulis Flavacarpa

but that ain't what we call Passion fruit. Definitely NOT sawarot

Is this a regional difference then?
These people deal in bulk, and thats what they call it-

Passion Fruits or Sao-Wah-Rohs - Exotic Fruit from Thailand - Simply-thai.com - Thai-Market-Online

Prop, you're back as the real you! hehe
Sorry, know not the name, but it sure is a beauty. Does the flower have a fragrance and is the fruit edible?

Jet -Very little fragance to the flower but a stunning colour. The fruit is edible once ripened.

FF - Whilst most of the passion flowers will produce a fruit only certain varieties are prolific in fruiting. The P. Edulis (grandilla) produces a yellow or dull purple egg shaped fruits, and another variety 'crackerjack' bears large deep purple fruits in abundance. The P. Caerulae produces and orange fruit whilst the P. Rubra produces a small reddish rounded fruit

The picture below shows the two climbers that I bought last Feb. As can be seen they are about 3 ft tall. One Passiflora ( Passion Fruit) and one Pyyrostegia Venusta (Flame Vine or Cape Honeysuckle were planted each end om the orchid shade trellis work.



This is after 11 months growth, now over 7ft high and have spread the entire length of the trellis, about 24ft



A closer look at the Passiflora

Here are some orchids that I bought from our local nursery. I am the first to admit that I know nothing about orchids as they are so difficult to grow in the UK. So I have no idea of the varieties, but when I retire to Thailand it is one thing that I will learn to do and to cultivate.

they look like Cattleya hybrids to me, the top one is possibly BLC Alma Kee, as it looks like this one of mine :


BLC (Brassolaeliocattleya) is a cross between Brassavola, Laelia and Cattleya genus.
Cattleya are n't really my specialty, but I got this one in a swap at an orchid show.

Lily in a pot.


First blossom in two years.


Hoxia.

These quite pleasant flowers were growing wild by the road in an Ubon village.



Anyone know them?

They look very much like a variety of Amaryllis to me. I got some similar bulbs a few years ago in Khon Kaen, but for the life of me cannot remember what they were called.