Autumn Berry - Extended Version 2

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I hope these pictures does justice in revealing all the Autumn Berry plant description.

This one is Elephant Ears, a Alocasia species.

A lot of these fruits are opening.

If you notice, the flower closes and roll up and later explode with bright coloured seeds.

I guess its meant to attract birds as they eat and the seeds been propagated that way.

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This is Black Nightshade (Solanum Nigrum)

I had taken few cuttings of these and all of them are successful in my garden. but none of them had flowered or put out the fruits and so they don't look interesting as these.

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I have no clue of its name, it look very much like ivy and the flower look very much like a gourd.

I had checked few times in google with these description but was unable to find any information on it. The fruit is packed with seeds which look very much similar to tomato seeds.

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These are Weeping Fig or Benjamin Fig (Ficus Benjamina)

There are many varieties of this kind. Most of them are invasive and destructive.

Do check the warnings before introducing them in your gardens.

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This is known as Roxburgh Fig. (Ficus Auriculata)

It was mentioned that this fruit is edible and Malaysian use it to eat fresh or mix it with pineapple juice. I have not heard about it nor have no clue about eating this one.

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Its also known as Buah Ara locally. (but I'm guessing its the edible Figs and not this one)

When I was standing here, lots of these fruits had ripen and littered that area. The fragrance of these fruits were very captivating - they do smell very fruity.

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Finally, this Winter berry is known as

Bush Passion Fruit or Running Pop (Passiflora Foetida)

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It is very common to find this plant growing everywhere. It must be propagated by birds. I had seen these passiflora flowers but this one seemed to have more fruits than flowers.

Its known locally as Timun Dendang - translated as Drum cucumber.

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Nature Walk

I wanted to collect some nice coloured plants and thought of doing some rescuing from the abandon areas. This is one of the areas near my office. Sometimes I notice new plants emerged and some older ones gone (either matured and died or taken by others)

Its a sad thing, that abandon areas are often riddled with garbage. People don't seemed to be responsible about their waste management, just throw wherever they please.

This is the flower of the Goosefoot plant. (Syngonium podophyllum) This one got wild and was trailing of a tree trunk. Someone pulled it out from the mango tree while harvesting its fruit. I was not sure whether to take it or not as its so common here and often grow wild.

Nevertheless, it has a beautiful flower to offer, similar to Dumbcane, Allocasia and Peace lily.

I manage to find the Ixora plant again this time and it look very beautiful. I took few cuttings and passed it to my friends and planted a few in a nice small pot. It has a elegant small firm leaves.

Truly beautiful to look at.

I continue my walk and found these plants on the planter box. This is a bougainvillea.

I love these flower but they are a bit challenging when coming to propagation. I have tried many times taking cuttings and planting them in pots but all of them with failed results. I ended up buying one variegated type which I currently have and happy with that.

As you can see, all of it are overgrown and left to die, it would have been beautiful if these plants are pruned, I guess the original shape was more of a border boxed type. The 2 Agave plant have grown huge. I wished there was few plantlets but I have found none.

I wonder whether if you can take a leaf cutting and plant it for the plantlets to come, like the Mother in law tongue plant or Hanni.

This one is known as Joyweed. (Alternanthera dentata 'Purple Knight') It doesn't have any border colours or any variegated colours on it. Just plain burgundy with a slight green at the crown. I have seen another type which is the variegated one, may do a write-up on it after some observation.

My favourite collection so far. Infact I had collected this twice (Thurs & Friday) as most of my office mates are so excited with them and I have given most of my collection to them.

These are Black Nightshade fruit (Solanum Nigrum) also known as Sunberry or Wondercherry is a species in the Solanum genus.

I know this one as a vegetable as I had seen it sold in wet market. (but have not eaten them)

I had taken the berries for planting in case the cuttings didn't survive. I had this plant growing very long time ago from one of the pots and often admire those blackberries - so much like miniature tomatoes.

These are the cuttings which I had collected - all sorted and waiting to be planted for the weekend.

I didn't realise that there was a heavy "weed seeds" hooked all over my pants, I manage to take out most of them. Well, I guess its part & parcel of gardening. Receive everything and give everything for the benefit of plants and people.