The very first plant is the Sea-Shore Ardisia tree. This tree is along Woodlands Ave 2. I have not been able to get the name previously because it does not flower when I passed by. This time round, it has fruits already but the same type of tree near the Express way have ripped fruit that resembles the picture found in The Plant Observatory web sites.
Chinese Violet is still available around a shed along the SLE.
The white version of the same plant is also found among the plant.
The small Praxelis plant grows along the PC too. Only this picture taken by my L27 is clear. The rest are blurred because I use the camera on my phone (for GPS location info).
Below the SLE, I caught sight of this Madras Pea Pumpkin. Its flower is too small to take clear picture with even when using the L27.
This Caribbean Pine grows at the side of the road below the SLE bridge
There were plenty of Ambay with quite large leaves growing along Ulu Sembawang PC.
There were Habana Cigar growing at the beginning of the PC. Another of the huge leafy plant.
The common Desert Cassia also grows in some portion of the PC.
At the time of my visit, there are constructions on both side of the PC. This Senduk Senduk Mata grows over the construction fencing. It looked like the flower has not bloom yet. However, web site information also show it as in the picture.
Along Mandai PC, this Resam fern grows out from the bushes. Like most ferns, its new leaf curls up like this.
This Memecylon have flowers growing at every leaf stalk making it look like decoration lights.
I almost missed this Red Flag Bush. Had to turn back just to take the picture. Like many of its Mussaenda genders, it has a few 'leaves' with very different color near its flowers.
There were quite a number of new plants planted along Mandai Rd. This tree, probably Beach Cherry, is one of them.
Another type of fern called Sticherus truncatus by its scientific name (no common name) is found opposite the reservoir entrance. Its leaf structure is very unique.
This Tree Fern is found besides it.
The reservoir park has a road just beside the reservoir but is not accessible by vehicle. It has a number of road barriers. However, they constructed foot path around every road barriers for walkers and joggers to pass it. Very thoughtful. There is a parallel road (Mandai Road Track 7) further down with car parks for cars.
This very nice Glory Lily is found in the park itself.
A shrub with small white flowers which I cannot find the name also grows there.
The white version of the Pagoda flower grows in front of the golf course club house.
This nice red Crown of Thorns grows there also.
I really cannot find the name of this plant. It look like a Osmoxylon or Papyrus but the little red flower like thing just make it not identifiable. I am not even sure if the red flower belong to the plant as it is my habit not to touch the flowers.
At the edge of the garden, you can find this Duranta variant growing.
Along the Mandai Track 7 road you can see very tall Mast Tree growing along it.
I can't find the name of this purple leaf potted plant.
Neither can I find the name of this shrub.
Finally found one plant that I could name. This Goodluck plant is common in Singapore.
After exiting into Mandai Rd, decided to turn right instead of going back the same way. Turned into Upper Thomson Road, I made another decision to not use the Mandai PC at Yishun Ave 1. I choose to use Lor Chincharu instead. From the map it looked like a dead end road. It is. However, there is a foot path that leads to the nearby Yishun Garden. There were maps that show people use the path to go from Upper Thomson to Yishun Ave 2. Please note that there is a gate at the dead end with a sign saying that the gate will be closed after dark. I am not sure whether it is actually closed after dark.
Right after entering Lor Cincharu, there is a unidentified tree that has plenty of small flowers.
This herbal plant Smooth amaranth grows by the road side.
This Noni tree grows just outside a company fence
This Orchid flower glows through the fence.
A Nappy Plant with nice flower grows along the road.
I just love to look at Starfruit flowers.
Well, another fruit tree is also found near the road side. It is probably Rambutan tree although the fruit looks a bit funny.
Found a Egg Fruit tree growing there also.
Found a Thunbergia gender plant called White Lady growing there.
There are only a few trees and plants growing in the Yishun Park. I can't remember the park name. One very interesting tree there is the Poached Egg Tree. I tried unsuccessfully to take a picture of it in Jln Bahar during my round island trip. With the L27 and the low branches, I managed to snap this nice picture. Now I know why it is called by that name.
Going all the way down Yishun PC, I took a picture of a Mangrove Trumpet Tree fruit. Unfortunately, no flowers available.
It is always pleasant to see this Hankerchief Tree.
I have been trying to take a picture of this Elephant Apple tree of the Dillenia gender. I took this PC very often but always forget to stop at this point to take the picture.
The Osmoxylon gender plant Yellow aralia have similar looking fruits and flowers. I prefer its non variant version. The fruits look much nicer purple. This picture is taken at Woodlands Ave 7 between Admiralty MRT and Woodlands Dr 73.
The three leaved Yellow Wood Sorrel is so small that you just don't see it while cycling. Luckily I stop and walked into the foot path area to take the Osmoxylon flower picture and noticed this plant growing below on the floor. It looked like a three leaf clover.
That concludes the picture taking as there is nothing much beyond this point to take picture with.
One episode on this trip is that I accidentally deleted the pictures while it is still transferring (using Wifi file transfer app) from my phone to the PC. The end result is that it is no in my hand phone neither did it end up in the PC. Fortunately there is an app called DiskDigger in Android that could recall the deleted files. It is really hard work trying to recover the 90 plus pictures from about 7000 recovered files (including duplicates). I managed to recover 95% of it and actually have to download 2 pictures from WikiLoc to find the name of the plant.
Further to the issue above, there are so many plants that I could not identify. It is almost a week already. I had to finish this blog before a new trip tomorrow. I will leave it as is till I could find the information later.
The WikiLoc map is here.
The Picasa Album is here.
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