The Sea Hibiscus @ Baru Laut

The yellow flowers of the sea hibiscus tree open in the morning (after sunrise, about 9 am) and turn orangey brown before falling on the same evening or the following day. The flow is yellow with five petals and a dark brown corolla with dark red stigma (www.naturia.per.sg).

I did not pay too much attention to these yellow flowers along the reservoir edge when I was at Lower Seletar Reservoir. But what caught my eye were large, bright reddish-orange flowers floating on the water. They were like floating lanterns during loy kratong!

What I did not know was they are the same flowers - the sea hibiscus! It is not as pretty when it blooms as when it falls onto the ground.

Fullmoon certainly fell in love with them !