Blooms of the week

Week of December 4, 2023

Hospitality Greenhouse
- Insectivorous plants in the terrarium.
- Flowers: red ginger, pendent heliconia, blue ginger, Chinese yellow banana, and more.
- Fruits: screw pine, Manila palm and MacArthur palm
Tropical Rainforest Greenhouse
- Flowers: some bromeliads and orchids, lollypop plant, spider lily, Amazon lily, Queen Emma lily, Mysore clock vine, golden brush, and more.
- Colourful leafs carpet the ground and Spanish moss serves as a backdrop.
Tropical Food Plants Greenhouse
- Fruits: banana tree, papaya, mandarin orange tree, coconut palm, lemon drop mangosteen, naranjilla, starfruit tree, limeberry tree, akee, and more.
- Flowers: soursop tree, cacao tree, papaya, banana tree, and more.
Orchids and Aroids Greenhouse
- Spectacularly shaped and coloured orchids. Some are fragrant.
- Some aroids are also in bloom, such as tailflowers and peace lilies.
Ferns Greenhouse
- Fascinating staghorn ferns and tree ferns.
- Beautiful maidenhair ferns.
- Plant walls.
- Blue strap fern with iridescent fronds.
Begoniaceae and Gesneriads Greenhouse
- Foliage of various shapes, textures and colours.
- Colourful blooms: begonias, goldfish plant, tree gloxinia, medinilla (also in fruits), rhytidophyllum, passion flower, basket plant, chirita and more.
- Beautiful plant walls.
Arid Regions Greenhouse
- Flowers: crown of thorns, some Haworthia and some Gasteria
- Fruits: woolly-joint prickly pear
- Over 80-year-old elephant foot trees (next to the doors of the Hacienda)
Hacienda
- Peeling bark of the fragrant bursera
- Flowers: jade plant, orchid cactus, aloe, wickerware cactus, bougainvillea, and more
Garden of Weedlessness
- Beautiful penjings
- Fruits: diospyros
- Flowers: wintersweet
Main Exhibition Greenhouse

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