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Not one hundred percent sure, but I think this is a budding flower of the Barringtonia Racemosa tree, all Barringtonia varieties have these flowers with lots of stamens, like little starbursts, which unfortunately only bloom fully at night. This budding one looks pretty squid-like now.
Tree is also known (if I have ID-ed it correctly) as Powder-Puff tree and Putat Kampung. Grows in the wild near swamps and the coast, this one is in the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

This strikingly coloured flower, which I hadn't seen before, grew in the wild in the Dairy Farm Nature Park (Singapore) and it took me days to find its name, mainly because I hadn't realised it was actually a flowering cactus ! Its prickly sharp spines are hidden beneath the leaf insets while its whole appearance is more that of a vine or liana. This is a Pereskia Bleo or Cactus Rose, and apparently its locally used as a natural medicine. Edited on 27/01/2012 to add: Somehow I completely overlooked the rather big centipede under it inittially!!

T189 Photo-A-Week 2012, Weekly Alphabet, week 4, B is for Bewitched

On this day, Robert Burns' birthday (25 Jan), a tropical interpretation of Nannie , the comely wench who bewitched Tam with her dancing in the woods in her cutty sark in the middle of the night (from Tam o' Shanter , the epic poem by Robert Burns)

"To sing how Nannie lap and flang,
(A souple jade she was, and strang),
And how Tam stood, like ane bewitch'd,
And thought his very een enrich'd; "
or

To sing how Nannie leaped and kicked
(A supple youth she was, and strong);
And how Tom stood like one bewitched,
And thought his very eyes enriched;

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Fern unfolding at Dairy Farm Nature Park - Singapore

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Captured on a nature walk on Saturday (Dairy Farm Nature Park-Singapore), no idea what it is called. Picture straight from camera was fine in itself, but just loved to find a texture to compliment, this is Fauve Gold by French Kiss Textures