Tapak Dara ( Rosy Periwinkle)

White Rosy Periwinkle (Tapak dara Putih)

Bunga Tapak Dara ( Rosy Periwinkle)

Catharanthus roseus

Family: Apocynaceae
Form: Herb / Vine
Origin: Native to Madagascar

Weed Type(s): Weed, Naturalised, Introduced, Garden Escape, Environmental Weed, Cultivation Escape

Bunga Tapak Dara /Catharanthus roseus is a fleshy perennial growing to 32 in (80 cm) high. It has glossy, dark green, oval leaves (1-2 inches long) and flowers all summer long.

The blooms of the natural wild plants are a pale pink with a purple "eye" in their centers.

The plant has historically been used to treat a wide assortment of diseases. It was used as a folk remedy for Diabetes in Europe for centuries. In India, juice from the leaves was used to treat wasp stings. In Hawaii, the plant was boiled to make a poultice to stop bleeding. In China, it was used as an astringent, diuretic and cough remedy. In Central and South America, it was used as a homemade cold remedy to ease lung congestion and inflammation and sore throats. Throughout the Caribbean, an extract from the flowers was used to make a solution to treat eye irritation and infections.

It also had a reputation as a magic plant; Europeans thought it could ward off evil spirits, and the French referred to it as "violet of the sorcerers."

Pink Rosy Periwinkle (Tapak dara pink)

HELICONIA

Yellow Heliconia

This is my Heliconia flowers in my garden, it's exotic flower. There are several very obvious characteristics by which they can be recognized, including large leaves and large, colorful, bracteate inflorecences.

Heliconias are grown for the florist's trade and as landscape plants

Wijaya Kusuma Flowers

Wijaya Kusuma (Epiphyllum anguliger)

Species : Cactus

I have many Wijaya Kusuma flowers in my house, I think this flower is very exotic and really beautiful when it was bloomed…

The color of my Wijaya Kusuma is white and mixed with pink.

The Wijaya Kusuma flower only bloomed several times(starting from morning and peak bloom on 12.00 pm) and not all wijayakusuma could blossom easily, depended on the climate, the fertility of the land and the maintenance method.Generally the cactus kind was difficult to be determined by his morphology, but wijayakusuma could be seen clearly which leaves part and which one of his stem part, after this crop in maturity state.The tree trunk wijayakusuma in fact was formed from the sheet of the leaves that hardened and became smaller.The sheet of the leaves was thin and flat, was green with the surface of the fine leaves was not thorny, it is another matter with cacti generally.To each edge of the leaves wijayakusuma was gotten indentations that were overgrown the leaves bud or the flower.

Palm Tree

My PALM TREES

I have much kind of palm trees (Arecaceae or Palmae) in my house:

- Red Palm

- Putri Palm

- Coconut Tree

- Bottle Palm

Palm trees grow in places that are warm and have a lot of sunshine. The palms, cycads and tropical plants sections.palms tree relatively tall, erect, unbranched, regularly cylindrical.The flowers are borne on simple or branching spikes. The seed consists almost exclusively of endosperm, Upper portion of Coconut seed, albumen in a cavity in showing the embryo, embedded in endosperm, which is lodged the relatively very minute embryo.
Flower of Bottle Palm Tree

Bottle Palm Tree

Coconut Tree

Princess Palm Tree (Palem Putri)