Morning Glory

Common Name : Morning Glory
Botanical Name :Ipompea nil
Other Name : Morning Glory, 牵牛花 
Family:Convolvulaceae
Origin: America



Morning Glory usually opens at morning time and grow quickly throw their vines. Morning Glory produces funnel shaped flowers and they vary from white, red, blue, purple and yellow. In Malaysia morning glory that we used to see is in blue or purple color. Their petal is big and forms a round shape. Morning glory is a flowers which loves full sun trough out the day and the corolla will neatly folded and rolled up when it is nearly noon time. Morning glories are best to decorate fences and walls.

Ixora

Common Name : Ixora
Botanical Name :Ixora Coccinea
Other Name : West Indian Jasmine, rangan, kheme, ponna, chann tanea, techi, pan, santan, jarum-jarum, jungle flame, jungle geranium, 仙丹花
Family: Rubiaceae
Origin: India, Sri Lanka

Ixora is a tropical evergreen trees that holds around 500 species throughout the world. They form a large cluster of tiny flowers which each of the tiny flower has 4 petals. Ixora flowers that we can usually see in Malaysia are red, pink, yellow, orange and also white color. Although there might be some slight difference between the size and shape of the petals, but Ixora only have 4 petals.

Butterfly Pea

Common Name : Butterfly Pea
Botanical Name :Clitoria Ternatea
Other Name : Bunga Telang, 蝴蝶花豆
Family: Fabaceae
Origin: Widely found in southeast Asia

Butterfly pea is known as “Bunga Telang” in malay words. The striking characteristic of the butterfly pea is its’ deep blue petals with a little yellow marking at the center. Different from other common flowers which consist of 5 petals, butterfly pea only has 2 petals, the bigger petals usually is at the bottom and the smaller petal is at the top. It is a creeping plant and can be eaten. Some of the Malaysian cuisine such as the food dye of the “Nasi Kerabu” rice or some coloring in the Nyonya Kuih main ingredient came from this flower.

Petunia

Common Name : Petunia
Botanical Name :Petunia Hybrida
Other Name : Garden Petunia, 矮牵牛
Family: Solanaceae
Origin: South American

Petunia hybrida are short plants that are suitable to put in pots and hanging baskets. They have huge color range which almost available in every color except orange. The basic shape of petunia flowers is funnel shape and available not only in single color. Some of the petals are in stripes and most of the colors that can be found easily in Malaysia are purple, lavender, pink, red, and white.

Turnera

Common Name : Turnera
Botanical Name :Turnera Subulata
Other Name : White Alder, Politician's Flower, White Butter Cup， 时钟花
Family: Turneraceae
Origin: Brazil

Turnera Subulata is decribed as clock flowers because of it blooms when the sun rises and closes when it is around noon. Turnera subulata varies from white to yellow colors but both have the significant dark color at the center of the flower. When the flower is fully bloom the petals will open wide and flat around 5-6cm and when the time strike noon the petals will slowly closes in a circular movement.

Hibiscus

Common Name : Hibiscus
Botanical Name :Hibiscus Rosa-sinensis
Other Name : Bunga Raya, Chinese Hibiscus, Shoe Rose
Family: Malvaceae
Origin: African East Coast

Hisbiscus or commonly known as “Bunga Raya” is the national flower of Malaysia and also state flower of Hawaii. Hibiscus have a large genus of about 200-220 species and they are suitable to grow at warm temperature, subtropical and tropical country. The flowers of Hibiscus can be very significant as they consist of 5 large petals, trumpet shaped. They can be range from white through yellow and orange to scarlet and shades of pink. Some of the flowers have single or double sets of petals. Other than the petals, Hibiscus usually has long hanging stamen and stigma at the center of the flower.

As the national flower of Malaysia, “Bunga Raya” is a malay words which means big flowers where the word “bunga” in Malay is flower while the word “raya” means big or grand. The red color of the petals indicates courage, life and rapid growth of the Malaysian and the five petals symbolizes the five Rukun Negara of Malaysia.

Alamanda

Common Name : Alamanda
Botanical Name :Allamanda Cathartica
Other Name :Butterfly Flower, Angel's Trumpet or Golden Trumpet
Family: Apocynaceae

Origin: South American



If one is in contact with the flower sap or if the leaves are ingested, one can be poisoned. The symtoms can be skin irritation, vomitting, diarrhea, elevated temperature.

Rain Lily

Common Name : White Rain Lily
Botanical Name :Zephyranthes candida
Other Name : bunga bawang, bunga lili, white rain lily, fairy lily
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Origin: South Africa

Rain lily is a common garden plant in Malaysia and can be found widely planted as ground cover. The name rain lily initated due to the habit of this plant which normally produce more bloom after the rain. The most common type grown in Malaysia is the white and pink flower. The plant can be easily propagated by the division of its bulb.Rain lily does not require much attention. It will die if left without water for a few days especialy in Malaysia hot wheather , but the bulb can be live again after ample watering.