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Sunday, June 21, 2015

PICK THE HONEY...

The red color is so striking!
Kembang anting or sleepy hibiscus (Malvaviscus arboreus) on my eastern back yard finally blooming.


More sunshine, more flower...


Kembang means flower, and anting means ear-ring.


It's an old fashion plant, that usually grown as a flowering hedge on village.



When I was a young girl, I used to play bubble that made from the leaves that crushed and diluted on the water.


And this flower also has sweet 'honey'.
We really love to suck the honey from the base of the petal.
Back to the childhood...

12 comments:

  1. Funny name, sleepy hisbiscus. We grow this one as a houseplant in our country.

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  2. I had one hisbiscus as an indoor plant, it had a flower in a day. Does your hisbiscus do the same?

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    1. Here, so various hisbiscus are grown as perennial on the garden, and they will produce flower every day all year round.

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  3. I can see why it is called earring

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    1. Yes, when I was a little girl, some time we put the flower on our ear, hanging like as earring

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  4. Saya membesar dengan bunga ini dilaman rumah. Teringat dulu-dulu suka ambil bunga ni jadikan cili semasa main masak-masak

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  5. Oh ini spesis yang tidak membuka petal nya ya ..

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  6. It's beautiful! It looks like a tube of lipstick. :o)

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