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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Weeping Fig - Ficus Benjamina

This tree is known as Weeping Fig or Benjamin Fig (ficus benjamina)
There is a lot that can be found in google on this topic.

I went to a mini supermarket near my house to buy my groceries.
I send my wife to do that and quickly snap some few pictures of these figsthat is friuting.

This one is not ripe yet, still green.

These are the other side where there are rows of figs grown.

The tree look ok - used as ornamental trees along the carpark.

These friuts had rippen to red.

Some close up shots of the friuts.

I was wondering where are those hanging roots...

They look so innocently tamed....

I was thinking of cutting a branch and arranging them in a vase.

They look very beautiful with red berry like friuts.

These are the fallen red friuts..

noticed no plantlets or seedlings from these seeds..

just bare ground and sand..

The roots appeared to be trimmed.

Must be done to maintain the wild side of these weeping figs.

I was looking for the damage that they are so famously known for it.

(for the invasive root behaviour)

And found this at the drainside just below where the tree was planted.

And found these planted growing from there.

I guess another few years, the whole drain kerb is going to be crushed

and damaged, the way these roots are expanding...

These are another place, near my working area.

was these roots trailing into the river from the cemented retaining wall.

If this fig tree happened to have a strangling effect.

I guess its not a pretty sight to see the whole wall broken down.

I guess weeping figs may appear beautiful, but if let uncheck

they can cause a lot of damage to the infrastructure.

Elephant Ears in the Wild

I took a walk around my work place area.

You can call this as Urban Jungle in literal sense (with rubbish everywhere)

Hunting for caladiums and found this.

Elephant ears (Alocasia) and Asian Figs (Ficus Benjamina) . Check out the trailing roots.

Its a pile of junk together with dry leaves & branches

at the side of an abandon house.

Then noticed an octopus likeplant

Elephant ears - Alocasia

The leaves are so broad and big...

I do not have anything to scale it, Just hold it at the tip to have a figure to note the size of it with my hands.

Its dried up flower, I guess the seeds are inside for the next season...

Smaller ones scattered everywhere

There was few palms growing together with the dumbcane.

I got few other shots but its full with rubbish that the rubbish makes a greater impact then the plants and decided not to post them here.

There was this roots nearby..

The tree is sloping in an angle and created this exotic looking roots..

Very common in rainforest areas.