Saturday, June 26, 2010

An Unknown

You all know we like fragrant flowers but we also like strange-looking flowers like the Hedgehog/Parrot's Beak or flowers that just look interesting!

Well, here is one of the beautiful interesting ones in the garden. No idea as to the name as I have not come across it in any references.This plant, with broad green leaves, has very attractive fan-shaped clusters of yellow/white flowers though no fragrance. They do look like arrowheads and that is what we called the flowers!


The flower buds are yellow five-sided pyramids while the opened flowers have five yellow petals folded back with a white five-sided pyramid in the centre. The pyramids have a brown star at the tips.


It is a rather slow grower, though we have seen bigger plants elsewhere. After one and a half years, it is till only about 30 cm tall though it regularly produce single clusters of flowers.


Anyone with any idea what this plant is?

3 comments:

  1. This could be from a family called hoya. I have seen similar flower in nurseries in Melbourne. But can't confirm as I can't remember what the leaves of your posted plant looks like from my last visit to Kuching.

    Sui Tin

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  2. hoya multiflora, shooting star hoya from toptropicals.com

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  3. Sui Tin,

    Thanks for the identification!! The flowers do not look or feel waxy which is why I never thought of the hoya family.

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