Tropical Flowers & Fruits

Ananas

2008-03-11T02:12:00.000-07:00

Ananas

Pineapple /Ananas is a Tropical Plant and Fruit.

Pineapple is a rosette plant with long, narrow leaves bearing saw tooth edges. Pineapples are native to Tropical America.

Blooming Time: It takes 2 years for the plant to mature enough to bloom and produce fruit. The fruit is produced on top of a sturdy stalk at the center of the plant. Homegrown pineapples are not as large as commercial pineapples.

Pineapple contains a proteolytic enzyme bromelain , which digests food by breaking down protein. Pineapple juice can thus be used as a marinade and tenderizer for meat. The enzymes in pineapples can interfere with the preparation of some foods, such as jelly or other gelatin -based desserts.

Pineapple contain Vitamin C, Vitamin B1.

Bunga Tapak Dara ( Rosy Periwinkle)

2008-02-18T19:26:00.001-08:00

Bunga Tapak Dara ( Rosy Periwinkle)

Catharanthus roseus

Family: Apocynaceae
Form: Herb / Vine
Origin: Native to Madagascar

Weed Type(s): Weed, Naturalised, Introduced, Garden Escape, Environmental Weed, Cultivation Escape

Bunga Tapak Dara /Catharanthus roseus is a fleshy perennial growing to 32 in (80 cm) high. It has glossy, dark green, oval leaves (1-2 inches long) and flowers all summer long.

The blooms of the natural wild plants are a pale pink with a purple "eye" in their centers.

The plant has historically been used to treat a wide assortment of diseases. It was used as a folk remedy for Diabetes in Europe for centuries. In India, juice from the leaves was used to treat wasp stings. In Hawaii, the plant was boiled to make a poultice to stop bleeding. In China, it was used as an astringent, diuretic and cough remedy. In Central and South America, it was used as a homemade cold remedy to ease lung congestion and inflammation and sore throats. Throughout the Caribbean, an extract from the flowers was used to make a solution to treat eye irritation and infections.

It also had a reputation as a magic plant; Europeans thought it could ward off evil spirits, and the French referred to it as "violet of the sorcerers."

White Rosy Periwinkle

Pink Rosy Periwinkle

Amaryllis Flower

2008-01-31T19:14:00.000-08:00

I have Amaryllis at home. I took pictures of them every day from the early beginning until all had blossoms.

They look tropical and exotic; large, lily-like trumpet blooms on tall, straight stems, with a base of strappy leaves.
The amaryllis comes in many beautiful varieties including various shades of red, white, pink, salmon and orange. There are also many striped and multicolored varieties, usually combining shades of pink or red with white. Of all flowering bulbs, amaryllis are the easiest to bring to bloom. This can be accomplished indoors or out, and over an extended period of time.

Amaryllis Care:
After the amaryllis has stopped flowering, it can be made to flower again. Cut the old flowers from the stem after flowering, and when the stem starts to sag, cut it back to the top of the bulb.
Continue to water and fertilize as normal. When the leaves begin to yellow, which normally occurs in the early fall, cut the leaves back to about 2 inches from the top of the bulb and remove the bulb from the soil.

1. Amaryllis tree

Rainy Day

2008-01-31T18:38:00.000-08:00

I love Rainy Day...
It's raining today here. That means time to be lazy, sleep or drink hot tea. No sun just dark clouds means it is really dark outside and everything is wet, the ground is covered by water and the rain keeps dropping in. Sometimes I hear thunders but too far to see the lightning... yet... else I hear the voices of frogs. Rain days are frog party days, they are enjoying the water and I hear them from all sides around the house. They seem to talk to each other and I know they won't stop until it stops to rain.

PANDAN TREE

2008-01-30T01:40:00.000-08:00

Pandan ( P. amaryllifolius)

I have many Pandan Trees in my house. The plant has many uses.
Pandan Leaf is widely used in Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. The Screwpine tree is a perennial and needs to grow in warm, damp areas in partial sunlight. The soil must be kept moist. The tree grows to be twenty-six feet high. The leaves are used there like we use vanilla flavoring. This leaf also has medicinal properties. In ancient times, the leaves were used for making house thatching and women’s grass skirts..
The medicinal uses for this tree are as follows: The entire plant is used as a diuretic, the roots have anti-diabetic properties, and the leaves are used for treating diseases of the skin.
leaves are used in Southeast Asian cooking to add a distinct aroma to rice and curry dishes such as nasi lemak ,dessert such as pandan cake.
In Indonesia, we put a fresh leaf on top of our steaming rice and We also use pandan to flavor various desserts.
Pandan leaves can be used to create a good fragance in your room. Just cut small pandan leaves and lay them on a bowl at the edges of the room. The room will refresh amazingly.

Recipe with Pandan Leaves

Sweet black rice pudding
Ingredients
cup black glutinous rice
3/4 cup white glutinous rice
2 pandan leaves
¼ tsp sea salt
5 cups water
¼ cup palm sugar
¼ cup water
1 400ml tin coconut cream
fresh bananas

Method:
Combine the black and white glutinous rice and rinse in a bowl three times to remove starch. Place rice, pandan leaves, salt and water in a heavy-based pot. Bring to the boil and simmer on medium heat.
Meanwhile, grate the palm sugar and add to the water. Bring to the boil and simmer until the sugar dissolves (about five -6 minutes).
When the rice has been cooking 30 minutes, add the syrup and cook for another 10 minutes.
Try soaking the rice the night before to cut the cooking time in half

To serve:
Serve warm on a wintry night with lashings of cold coconut cream and fresh fruit (try frying banana slices) or chill in cups for a balmy Bali summer's night treat.

Note:
Black and white glutinous rice can be found at Asian grocers. Buy fresh or frozen pandan leaves at Asian grocers. Or, instead of using pandan leaves, add a few drops of vanilla essence at the end of the cooking process.

Pandan Leaves for fragance

Pandan Tree

ANTHURIUM

2008-01-25T00:55:00.000-08:00

I have Anthurium (family Areacea) trees in my house, the leaves of Anthurium is really beautiful.
Anthuriums are relatively easy to grow. Anthurium plants love shade and mostly grow in shaded areas. They are usually grown in shade houses while some growers have a fern tree forest and plant the anthuriums underneath the trees. Anthuriums grow equally well in pots as well as in the ground.

Anthurium Wave of Love

My PALM TREES

2008-01-20T00:13:00.000-08:00

I have many kind of palm trees (Arecaceae or Palmae) in my house:

- Red Palm

- Putri Palm

- Coconut Tree

- Bottle Palm

Palm trees grow in places that are warm and have a lot of sunshine. The palms, cycads and tropical plants sections.palms tree relatively tall, erect, unbranched, regularly cylindrical.The flowers are borne on simple or branching spikes. The seed consists almost exclusively of endosperm, Upper portion of Coconut seed, albumen in a cavity in showing the embryo, embedded in endosperm, which is lodged the relatively very minute embryo.
Flower of Bottle Palm Tree

Flower of Palm Tree

Fruit of Bottle Palm Tree

Coconut Tree

Putri Palm Tree

Young Red Palm Tree

Morning Glory in my house

2008-01-19T21:43:00.000-08:00

When I woke up this morning, I heard a bird singing, real nice. So I took my camera and tried to shoot some pictures.
I got many beautiful pictures from my garden:
Flowers, sun and I tried to take pictures of the bird, of a dragon fly, butter flies but...ooooohh... this is not easy at all, they are fast and fly around, everywhere...

Morning Forest :)

Morning Glory Flower

A fully open purple morning glory

Pink Anthurium in the morning!!

Cream Anthurium in the morning

Red Anthurium in the morning

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My BANANA TREES

2008-01-19T20:43:00.000-08:00

I have many banana trees in my garden; I took that picture in the morning…..
My house like a jungle of banana.......

Banana plants are of the family Musaceae. In popular culture and commerce’ Banana’’ Indonesian name is ‘’ Pisang’’ usually refers to soft, sweet "dessert" bananas that are usually eaten raw. Mana kind of Banana in Indonesia:

Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple and red. Bananas can be eaten raw though some varieties are generally cooked first, here are over 400 varieties of bananas, in Indonesia for Example:

-Pisang Tanduk usually for fried banana or kolak (dessert mixed with coconut) (size long and big)
- Pisang Raja usually for grilled mixed with cheese and Chocolate or for kolak
-Pisang Ambon usually eaten raw
- Pisang Mas usually eaten raw (small)
- Pisang Kelutuk usually for Rujak… (Indonesian dessert mixed with other fruits like: Star Fruit, young mango and with palm sugar..)

My favorite dessert is Banana grilled :)

Bananas may also be dried and eaten as a snack food. Dried bananas are also ground into banana flour.

The leaves of the banana are large, flexible, and waterproof; they are used in many ways, including to wrap food for cooking.

A banana is a natural remedy for many ills. It has many protein, carbohydrate, phosphorus, vitamin A and iron, and the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around.

Banana Bread Recipe
Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup toasted walnuts or pecans, chopped
3 ripe, soft, darkly speckled large bananas, mashed well (about 1 1/2 cups)
1/4 cup plain yogurt
2 large eggs, beaten lightly
6 tablespoons butter, melted then cooled
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preparation:

Adjust oven rack to lower middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease bottom only of regular loaf pan, or grease and flour bottom and sides of nonstick 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pan.
Combine dry ingredients together in large bowl and set aside.
Mix mashed bananas, yogurt, eggs, butter, and vanilla with wooden spoon in medium bowl.
Lightly fold banana mixture into dry ingredients with rubber spatula until just combined and batter looks thick and chunky.
Pour batter into prepared loaf pan; bake until loaf is golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 55 minutes.
Cool in pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire rack.
Wrap tightly with plastic wrap and store in refrigerator for 4 days, on the counter for 2 days.

Young Pisang Mas

inflorescence partially opened (pisang Mas)

inflorescence being taken before the lower part opens.

Pisang Tanduk

inflorescence of pisang tanduk partially opened
a little bit difference with pisang mas
Long and not many inflorescene

Jungle of Banana Tree in My house

ALOE VERA

2008-01-18T20:14:00.000-08:00

I have many aloe Vera in my Garden. The Aloe Vera plant, a member of the Lily Family, is a succulent that closely resembles a cactus.
Aloe Vera is easy to care. Plants have been grown outdoors or indoors in pots in order to help remove toxins from the atmosphere.

If trying to grow this plant outdoors then it will need the sunniest (full sun) or light shade. It grows very well in a sunny windowsill.
Aloe Vera is a tropical and sub tropical plant. The plant can be separated into two basic products: gel and latex.
The aloe Vera plant contains number of health benefits that has been used for medicinal purposes around the world for more than 3500 years.

The properties of Aloe Vera Gel, applied externally or taken internally, have been described in numerous scientific journals and reveals that the Aloe Vera contains more than 70 Essential Ingredients including most Vitamins, Minerals, Enzymes, Protein, Amino Acids and a recent study also discovered Vitamin B 12.

Aloe Vera benefits for skin, Hairs, cosmetics and beauty.
Aloe gel has been used for topical treatment of wounds, minor burns, and skin irritations.

KAMBOJA FLOWER (PLUMERIA)

2008-01-16T18:32:00.001-08:00

Kamboja flowers (Plumeria) in my garden. Colour: White, pink, red and yellow.It looks so beautiful, the flower grows along the year.Plumeria is a tropical flower.I like this flower, beautiful and exotis, I hope you will like it too

Kamboja flowers which are common adornments throughout Bali and often seen wound in a woman's hair or tucked behind an ear. look so .....beautiful and lovely

Pink Plumeria

Red Kamboja (Plumeria) Flower

White Kamboja (Plumeria)

Tree of Plumeria

GUAVA

2008-01-13T00:23:00.000-08:00

Latin : Psidium guajava Linn.

Indonesia : Jambu Klutuk / Jambu Biji

English : Guava

Suku : Myrtaceae

Guava is a healthy and exotic fruit. Guavas are rich with vitamins A, B and C, nicotinic acid, phosphorous, potassium, iron, folate and is high in fibre.
Guavas are also low in fat and calories.

Creamy in texture with a rind that softens to be fully edible. The flesh may be white, pink, yellow, or red. The sweet, musky odor is pungent and penetrating. The seeds are numerous but small (you can eat). The Flowers are white, with 4-5 petals and numerous stamens.

You can eat guava raw, you’ll also find guavas being used to create purified juice and drinks.

Just Try it!! You will not regret……….

Leaves of Guava

HELICONIA

2008-01-11T20:05:00.001-08:00

This is my Heliconia flowers in my garden, it's exotic flower. There are several very obvious characteristics by which they can be recognized, including large leaves and large, colorful, bracteate inflorecences.

Heliconias are grown for the florist's trade and as landscape plants

Yellow Heliconia

Red and Orange Heliconia

(Rostrada)

HIBISCUS FLOWERS

2008-01-06T19:52:00.000-08:00

Hibiscus Flower (Rosemallow)
Family : Malvaceae

Hibiscus flowers are among the most beautiful flowers in the whole world. Hibiscus has over 200 species in its family.Hibiscus can be grown in the garden but also on pottery inside the house.

It gets its name from the Greek words Hibiscus meaning "mallow" and rosa-sinensis meaning "rose of China".

Very easy to care Hibiscus, hibiscus need much sun and no needed too much water.

I have many kind of hibiscus in my garden:

pink

Red

Yellow

White

Baby Pink

Orange

All so beautiful....... I love it.....

Trees of pink Hibiscus

Pink Hibiscus flowers

Bud of pink Hibiscus

Double Flower pink Hibiscus

Bud of Double pink Hibiscus flower

A red Hibiscus

A yellow Hibiscus

Bud of yellow hibiscus

Orange Hibiscus flower (sorry the colour is not clear)

A baby pink Hibiscus flower

A white Hibiscus flower

Thank you for looking my hibiscus flower album....:)

My BELIMBING WULUH TREE

2008-01-06T01:17:00.000-08:00

This is my Belimbing Wuluh Tree in my house

Belimbing Wuluh (Averrhoa Belimbi)

Kamias (Philipine)

Belimbing Wuluh is not commonly consumed because the taste is very sour. Usually, people use it to cook sour soup, shrimp gulai and fish gulai. From this fruit, you can make asam sunti (a special spice) and pickles out of it.

It is sometimes known as the cucumber tree because of the shape of its fruit.

How to make asam sunti??
Wash some fruitsand Sprinkle salt on them and put them under the sun. Do this every day until the fruits become dried. Put the dried fruits inside a jar and close it tightly. This dried fruit is usually used for Gulai (Sumatra Cooking)

Recipe with Belimbing Wuluh

Fish steamed in banana leaves
Ingredients:

500 gr fish filet

1 tbsp lime juice

2 tsp salt

belimbing wuluh - as you like 4-8 fruits(sour starfruit)

250 ml thick coconut milk

2 kunyit leaves (curcuma)

banana leafbiteng (wooden sticks)

10 red rawits (small chilies)

6 shallot

5 cloves garlic

2 cm laos (galanga)

salt

preperation/method;Rub the fish in with the lime juice and 1 tsp salt and cut it into pieces. Cut the belimbij into thin slices and sprinkle thes with the salt. Let it stand for 15 minutes and rinse it and drain. slice the kunyit leaves very fine and thin. Cut the bananaleaf into four 18x18cm pieces. Pound or grind the ingredients for the bumbu into a paste. Mix all ingredients well. Pour the mixtue on a banana leaf piece and flod it as a package and tie it with the biteng. Steam the packages for 15 minutes until done and serve.

Tree of Belimbing Wuluh

Fruits Of Belimbing Wuluh

Leaves of Belimbing Wuluh

WIJAYA KUSUMA FLOWER

2008-01-05T21:11:00.000-08:00

Wijaya Kusuma (Epiphyllum anguliger)

Species : Cactus

I have many Wijaya Kusuma flowers in my house, I think this flower is very exotic and really beautiful when it was bloomed…

The color of my Wijaya Kusuma is white and mixed with pink.

The Wijaya Kusuma flower only bloomed several times(starting from morning and peak bloom on 12.00 pm) and not all wijayakusuma could blossom easily, depended on the climate, the fertility of the land and the maintenance method.Generally the cactus kind was difficult to be determined by his morphology, but wijayakusuma could be seen clearly which leaves part and which one of his stem part, after this crop in maturity state.The tree trunk wijayakusuma in fact was formed from the sheet of the leaves that hardened and became smaller.The sheet of the leaves was thin and flat, was green with the surface of the fine leaves was not thorny, it is another matter with cacti generally.To each edge of the leaves wijayakusuma was gotten indentations that were overgrown the leaves bud or the flower.

RAMBUTAN TREE

2008-01-05T20:38:00.001-08:00

Rambutan Tree
(family Sapindaceae)

This is my Rambutan tree in my house, named Rambutan Rafiah
the rambutan is delicious and nutritious fruit. The flavor and appearance of the flesh is similar to lichee.
The word "rambut" in the fruit name mean 'hairy’

The rambutan is a bright red fruit covered in soft, hairy spines. Gently squeeze to open and enjoy the delicious, sweet, translucent, litchi-like fruit inside. Slightly rubbery in texture, it is also called ngoh in Thailand.
Rambutan fruit contents vitamin C, and many other nutritional
Rambutan are premier dessert fruit and are usually eaten fresh.To open rambutan partially cut through the skin, or just break open using a strong thumb-nail.

Rambutan Tree

Leaf of Rambutan

Fruit of Rambutan

Rambutan cut open

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My Tropical Fruit 2

2008-01-05T18:48:00.000-08:00

This is my other fruit trees in my house

Jeruk Purut ((English : kaffir lime)

God's Crown
Indonesia (Mahkota Dewa)

Squamosa
Indonesian Name: Srikaya

Manggo Tree

Indonesian Name: Pohon Mangga

Pineapple Tree

Indonesian: Pohon Nanas

Belimbing Wuluh

English: Bimbling plum, Cucumber tree, Tree sorrel

Sawo Tree

PAPAYA TREE

2008-01-03T18:53:00.000-08:00

PAPAYA

Papaya is tropical fruit, Originally it may have come from southern Mexico and Central America.
The ripe fruit is usually eaten raw, without the skin or seeds. It is a popular breakfast fruit in Indonesia
The unripe green fruit of papaya can be eaten cooked, usually in curries, bobor (Special dishes from Jakarta-indonesia, normally eaten with Ketupat) salads and stews. And the ripe papaya can make juice.
Leaf papaya can be cooked for Indonesian dishes like Urap.
Papaya rich with vitamin C and C and potassium. There are also small amounts of calcium, iron, thiamine, riboflavin and niacin present in papaya. It is low in calories and sodium and high in potassium.

1. Tree of Papaya

2. Young Papaya Indonesia

3. The ripe papaya

Papaya cut open

TROPICAL FRUITS

2008-01-02T17:28:00.000-08:00

This is my tropical fruits in my Garden, I take my own picture from my garden...

1. Delima Fruit

Family: Punicaceae

2. Papaya Tree

3. Young Banana

Banana plants are of the family Musaceae.

4. Kedondong Tree

5. Rambutan Tree

6. Belimbing Tree
(Star Fruit)

7. Guava
(Indonesia: Jambu Kelutuk)

8. Jack Fruit

My TROPICAL FLOWER GARDEN

2007-12-31T20:30:00.000-08:00

TROPICAL FLOWERS

A real of dreams that is furthermore embellished by the tropical flowers, which are of various surprising colors and shapes.

This picture I take from my own garden. I have many plants from tropical flowers and fruits. My house seems like a jungle…ehm…..ehm…..

Smell and feel of a room full of beautiful, flowering tropical plants.

Wijaya Kusuma Flower

Colour: White with baby pink

Name: Batavia Flower

Size Of Flower: Small but much

Name: Double Hibiscus Flower

family: Malvaceae

We call in Indonesia: Bunga Kembang Sepatu

Pink Hibiscus-01

White Hibiscus-02

Yellow Hibiscus-03

Name: Orchid

Colour: Purple

Home sweet home

2007-12-31T20:01:00.000-08:00

This is my house in Jakarta-Indonesia. Small but beautiful. I have many plants like many flowers and many tropical fruits. let looks my others blog.....

Home sweet Home..)

my Gazebo
Made from Wood...really nice chatting together with family or friends....and make a barbeque party