Singapore
Botanical Gardens
November 2007
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 Botanical Garden Gates |
 Pavillion |
 Kapok Tree Roots |
 Kapok Tree Roots |
 Spotted Dove cooling wings |
 Lesser Whistling Ducks |
 Lesser Whistling Duck roosting in tree |
 White Breasted Water Hen |
 Palm Valley |
 Parrot Beaked Heliconia |
 Calabash gourd Crescentia cujete |
 Swan Lake |
 Orchid display carved column |
 Dendrobium Princess Diana |
 Fountain by Nassim Road Entrance |
 Entrance to Orchid Garden |
 Yellow Orchids |
 Closer view of Yellow Orchids |
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 Carved wooden screen near Holland Road Cluny Road entrance |
 Carp Pond |
 Carved figure near archives building |
 Wood sculpture |
 Bicycle Sculpture |
 Evolution Garden |
 Coal Forest Evolution Garden |
 Evolution Garden Rocks |
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 Walking through time |
The Ginger Garden
Within the botanical garden is the amazing Ginger Garden. Reproduced below is a photograph of a board from the garden explaining about the ginger family.
 Emerging Ginger stems |
 Ginger plants |
 Turmeric plants |
 Alpinia vitatta variegated |
 Alpinia galanga (GALANGAL) |
 Alpinia lento carpa (Bamboo ginger) |
 flower Cornus kaempferia auranttiflora |
 Torch Ginger flower 1 |
 Torch Ginger flower 2 |
 Open Torch Ginger Flower |
 Etlingera species zingiber hort |
 (Arrowroot) Macranta arundinaceae |
 Costus incanusianus |
 Heliconia |
 Calathea marantifolea |
 Zingiber species 1 |
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 Orchidantha siamensis |
 Curcuma cordata white |
 Curcuma cordata pink |
 Costus species red stem |
 Etlingera |
 Torch Ginger Plant |
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