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.


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started reading ur blog and website from the Ulu Pandan entry. so here are a couple of shots from the river bank to share in return :)took them on a rare sunday morning run along sungei ulu pandan.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mi_piace/
Maybe kayakers are just naturally good photographers! ;)
FH2O > we get (kayak) to see things ppl normally won't ;)
happy > quick! find out the name of the childhood flower ;0 i remember another flower tht bloom between midnite and morning. life of flowers.
thanks..
see.. who says kayakers are dumb?