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![1 Xanthostemon chrysanthus Myrt stamens [wyc] - 4](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/1-Xanthostemon-chrysanthus-Myrt-stamens-wyc-4-q8dfeg8c6xh27x4q6j70768rj8cxd29ndty9o1iohc.jpg "1 Xanthostemon chrysanthus Myrt stamens [wyc] – 4")
A total of six species of birds have been documented visiting the Golden Penda (Xanthostemon chrysanthus) for its nectar LINK. Birds obviously are an important pollinating agent of this tree. […]
![Melastoma malabathricum fl [wyc] - 2](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Melastoma-malabathricum-fl-wyc-2-q8dghzbzm3l6hjplcmc6274mwlin2t79hhne8ywmsw.jpg "Melastoma malabathricum fl [wyc] – 2")
Singapore Rhododendron or Sendudok (Melastome malabathricum) is commonly seen throughout the tropics. The plant is fast growing, producing attractive, pinkish mauve flowers with two types of stamens. There are five […]
Singapore Rhododendron (Melastome malabathricum) is a weedy shrub with showy pinkish flowers. Details of the flower parts and some of the fauna associated with the plant have been posted earlier […]
![Averrhoa bilimbi fl-fr [wyc]](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Averrhoa-bilimbi-fl-fr-wyc-q8dfchqfycsk15z4m6pzi616zc0ebrhs450uoaf7g0.jpg "Averrhoa bilimbi fl-fr [wyc]")
The Bilimbing (Averrhoa bilimbi) is a smallish tree that is commonly planted for its sour fruits often used in Asian cooking. The flowers are reddish, in small bunches arising from […]
![Musa hybrid tiuuse-cultured [wyc] - 3](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Musa-hybrid-tiuuse-cultured-wyc-3-q8dfchqfycsk15z4m6pzi616zc0ebrhs450uoaf7g0.jpg "Musa hybrid tiuuse-cultured [wyc] – 3")
On January 2013 Tan Teo Seng gave me a young banana plant (Musa edible cultivar) in a small polybag. It was a tissue culture plant, produced for the banana plantations […]
![Melastoma fl-parts [wyc]](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Melastoma-fl-parts-wyc-q8dfh6xe4j862z5d67utyzc5wougta5greg923gcc0.jpg "Melastoma fl-parts [wyc]")
Sendudok (Melastoma malabathricum) is misleadingly called Singapore Rhododendron. It does not originates from Singapore and the flowers in no way resemble those of rhododendron. This is a common shrub that […]
“At around midday on 22nd February 2014, we had arrived at a stream in the Ulu Langat forest (Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia). Despite a severe lack of rain over the preceding […]
![bees collect resin [TeoLeeWei]](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/bees-collect-resin-TeoLeeWei-q8dfdbta11xqcorfqjq1pyfxznw562t6w9we156lww.jpg "bees collect resin [TeoLeeWei]")
Teo Lee Wei and K documented bees collecting resin from a Norfolk Island Pine Tree (Araucaria heterophylla) along Encounter Bay, Victor Harbor, South Australia in mid-July 2013. The resin was […]
“My helper was reaching out to a luffa fruit (Luffa aegyptica) that was scrambling over the limau purut tree (Citrus hystrix) the other day when she noticed a small colony […]
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