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Flora of Singapore. Singapore has a wide variety of flora. Plants are mainly used to beautify the landscape of Singapore. The national flower is a hybrid orchid, Vanda Miss Joaquim. [ 1] As in any tropical rainforest Singapore is home to a number of very large trees from the families Apocynaceae, Dipterocarpaceae, Fabaceae, Malvaceae and others.
The Gardens by the Bay (GBTB) is a nature park spanning 105 hectares (260 acres) in the Central Region of Singapore, adjacent to the Marina Reservoir.The park consists of three waterfront gardens: Bay South Garden in Marina South, Bay East Garden with the Founders' Memorial in Marina East and Bay Central Garden in the Downtown Core and Kallang. [2]
The Singapore Botanic Gardens is a 165-year-old tropical garden located at the fringe of the Orchard Road shopping district in Singapore. It is one of three gardens, and the only tropical garden, to be honoured as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [ 1 ] The Botanic Gardens has been ranked Asia's top park attraction since 2013, by TripAdvisor ...
Rafflesia titan Jack. Rafflesia arnoldii, the corpse flower, [ 2] or giant padma, [ 3] is a species of flowering plant in the parasitic genus Rafflesia. It is noted for producing the largest individual flower on Earth. [ 4] It has a strong and unpleasant odor of decaying flesh. [ 5] It is native to the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo. [ 6]
Rafflesia. Rafflesia ( / rəˈfliːz ( i) ə, - ˈfliːʒ ( i) ə, ræ -/ ), [ 2] or stinking corpse lily, [ 3] is a genus of parasitic flowering plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. [ 4] The species have enormous flowers, the buds rising from the ground or directly from the lower stems of their host plants; one species has the largest flower in ...
A botanical garden or botanic garden[ nb 1] is a garden with a documented collection of living plants for the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display, and education. [ 1] It is their mandate as a botanical garden that plants are labelled with their botanical names.
Geranium. See list. Geranium is a genus of 422 species of annual, biennial, and perennial plants that are commonly known as geraniums or cranesbills. They are found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, with the greatest diversity in the eastern part of the Mediterranean region.
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (/ ˌ æ n dʒ i ə ˈ s p ər m iː /), [5] [6] commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of broad-leaved trees , shrubs and vines , and most aquatic plants .