Three stages of this particular plant are shown here. The large brown ball is part of the tree, then there are the buds and flowers. Below is a close up of a flower in full bloom.
There were so many plants in different colours to what I have seen previously
Amorphophallus Paeoniifolius -this amazing plant is actually indigenous and grows in the top end. The mis-shapened top is the flower and is filled with an abundance of pollen and spores and will eventually collapse. We were there when a nurseryman was collecting pollen from around the stem to enable manually pollination. In the wild it is pollinated by blow flies. This particular plant will flower again in two years. We saw it at its best before it releases a pungent odour.
Jade Vine
This creeper clung so closely to the trunk of the tree it looked like a pattern had been painted onto the trunk.
The photo does not show the vivid red colour of these large flower pendants
This trunk looked lethal with all the pointed barbs protruding. It is not native but we have a tree very closely related to it. It is a member of the capok family and has large fluffy bunches of capok at the tip of branches.
The head of this flower was so enormous it had bent the branch down and was facing the ground. I took this snap by putting the camera upside down under the flower head
These plant just pop up out of the ground.
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