SINGAPORE (PART II)
Below are pictures from Singapore Botanical Gardens. To see the other pictures from Singapore, go to Part I. Singapore Botanical Gardens is huge--extending approximately one mile by one-half mile, with a broad number of tropical plant species.

First, the Palm Valley, in the middle of the gardens...



One of several lakes...



Another lake...



One walkway in the gardens...



Another walkway...through Heliconias with of course many palms in the background...



One tree famous in Singapore which is frequently planted and native to the region...the sealing wax palm (Cyrtostachys renda)...





This palm is common in the gardens and native--the nibung palm (Oncosperma tigillarium)...





Nibung palms at the lake, with Bismarkcia palms in the background...



Here is the ruffled fan palm (Licuala grandis)...



The silver Joey palm (Johannesteijsmannia_magnifica)...



Bismarckia palms...



Hooker's sugar palms (Arenga hookeriana)...



This is Bauhinia kockiana, a common vine native to Singapore...



Shore eugenia (Syzygium antisepticum), with its odd bark...



One tree with spectacular flowers on the trunk is the yellow saraca (Saraca cauliflora)...





An unusual orchid called the Singapore orchid (Vanda miss Joaquim)...



There was a preserved tropical rainforest in the gardens...







A very rare and threatened tree...the meranti (Shorea gratissima)...and is the only known public meranti tree in Singapore...



One of many banyanizing Ficus in the gardens...this is Ficus kurzii...





Another banyanizing Ficus...this one in the rainforest...the Johore fig (Ficus kerkhovenii)...



A fake waterfall in the gardens where you can walk behind...





One last look in the gardens...





Go here for the rest of the Singapore pics.

All of the above pictures on this page were taken in February 2015 by Brandt Maxwell.

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