Category Archives: Plant

Tokyo Snapshots: Spring

Leave a comment Posted by on April 15, 2014

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Mother-in-Law’s Tongue

Leave a comment Posted by on April 7, 2014
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Mother-in-law's tongue in a pot. Very easy to grow and propagate

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Mother-in-law's tongue as ornamentation in Angkor Empress Hotel, Siem Reap

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As seen near the giant butaka, Isabela. Such a very resilient ornamental plant that needs little water and grows in poor soil condition

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Hibiscus

Leave a comment Posted by on September 20, 2013

Known as gumamela in the country where in the classrooms it is used to illustrate parts of a flower, where in the playground, it is used by children in making bubbles out of crushed flower extracts, and where in the yards of the houses in the barrio it is used as an ornamental plant.

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Hibiscus in Paoay churchyard

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Hotel in Puerto Princesa named as Hibiscus Garden Inn

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In a garden at the tip of Borneo. This is the national flower of Malaysia

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In Kinabalu Park (Sabah, Malaysia)

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Citronella Plant

Leave a comment Posted by on August 22, 2013
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Growing citronella grass in a plastic pot

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Citronella stems are red while lemongrass are green

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Pawa Mangrove Ecosystem

Leave a comment Posted by on July 16, 2013

Pawa is the name of the Barangay in Masbate City where this mangrove park is located. DENR takes care of the planting and preservation of these mangroves.

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This is where one can walk around the mangrove park

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A local who help plants the mangrove tree

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This long bridge is being repaired

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This local is explaining how to plant mangrove tree

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The tambasakan is abundant in there

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Altar Flowers

2 Comments Posted by on April 30, 2012

Both sampaguita and everlasting flowers are commonly seen outside the cathedral being peddled by ambulant vendors. People buy these flowers to adorn their home altars or Santo (lei).

Everything is sampaguita flowers or sometimes at the bottom of the lei they would put camia or ylang-ylang.

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