Pasir Panjang to Kent Ridge Park

This post is actually quite belated as the trip was taken in 13th November. The route is generally for walking around Kent Ridge Park. A small part of the route passes through a canal at a private estate.

The trip starts from Pasir Panjang MRT. The first plant that greets me is a bright yellow leaved shrub which I cannot identify.

The canal is just across the road besides Jalan Mat Jambol. I realized that I have started the route on the wrong side of the canal when I saw a Camwood flower over the canal. By then it is too late to walk back. The picture is taken across the canal with maximum zoom. The flower is way too small for the picture.

As a consolation, a close up of a Lead Tree is available.

You can find plenty of Chinese Violet bush growing besides the canal.

There is nothing that attracts my attention after the canal till I reached the lake at Kent Ridge Park. This climber with very large leaves is still young. It is a Smilax setosa. It has a very hairy branch.

Nobody wants to eat an Elephant Apple. That's why you can see all the fruits on the ground.

This Chinese Taro grows near the lake.

The purple color Pickerelweed is very nice looking and complicated.

This trip is more for photo taking. I ended up with so many plants that I cannot identify. Most of which I will omit here.

The Simpleleaf Chastetree is nothing simple. I had a hard time finding its name.

The Butterfly Pea Tree flower is typical of a bean family with its characteristic shape.

The Akar Memplas flower is equally distinctive. It actually have 4 white petals. There is only three in this picture - Mea culpa.

A different specie of Chinese Violet is growing here. This flower is very much larger than the previous one.

A common plant, the Tembusu, has very nice fragance flowers. 

The Crepe Myrtle is too nice to ignore.

The snake tongue like plant Pinanga simplicifrons is very unique.

The Swaddling Flower tree fruit looks very unique.

The Malang Malang tree flower is very hard to focus. It is small and the wind is blowing constantly.

The False Kelat tree is very hard to see in this picture due to its sparse leaves.

The Sweet Clock-vine is very common in Singapore. I always like to take a picture of it.

I must have been getting old. There is a number of repetitions of the same plant. Some of it is due to the fact that the previous picture is not that satisfactory. This is another picture of the Malang Malang flower. This time it is up close.

The trip actually ends here on this last flowering tree. But since it is just besides Hort Park and I had to walk through it to get to a bus, a few more plants pictures were taken.

This Tropical Fuchsia is all red color and is grown inside the green house. I have no access to it thus snaps the picture outside the glass panel.

Another Dillenia cousin of the Simpoh Air has a white color flower. 

This unidentified flower looks like an Ixora.

This Nam Nam plant is a foreigner. It is mainly found in Northern Peninsula Malaysia.

I simply cannot miss the opportunity to take a picture of this Bauhinia flower at Alexandra Techno Park BLK A.

A map of the Kent Ridge Park is available here. This is the only clear picture of the complete route of the Southern Ridges after Hort Park. I used a panorama app to take it. The trail actually starts from West Coast Park and ends at Vivo City. Previously I did walk from Kent Ridge MRT to West Coast Park and back but did not follow the exact route shown here.

The WikiLoc route map is available here.

The full Picasa Album is here.