Birthday flower

Birthday flower

Dedicated to a Flickr friend :-)
Happy Birthday, PK !

Blend of two own pictures, one of the flower and one of pastel bokeh circles and then the same blended picture with a Snapseed grunge filter mixed into it.

Yay, it made Explore ! #291 on 29/01/12 Thank you very much for all the views, comments, invites and faves, much appreciated. :-)

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Uploaded on Jan 28, 2012  |  Map

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Glowing with passion

Glowing with passion

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Hibiscus in full bloom with marvellously red glowing fuzzy thingies on hairy stalks(I had no idea what their scientific name is, but have learned now that this is called the 'stigma')
@ Hort Park Singapore 27/01/12

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Uploaded on Jan 27, 2012  |  Map

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Under the sea ... no, under the tree !

Under the sea ... no, under the tree !

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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.

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Uploaded on Jan 26, 2012  |  Map

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Prickly burst of colour

Prickly burst of colour

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!!

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Uploaded on Jan 25, 2012  |  Map

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