Yesterday I went for a walk. Along the way I took a lot of pictures of plants growing along the sidewalk. Jakarta is not a particularly pretty place, but there are some neat tropical plants growing wherever they can take hold. For purposes of this blog, I'll be showing you those pictures.
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| Polyathia longifolia in front of a nice house in Jakarta |
One of the more common trees here in Jakarta is the
Polyathia longifolia, which is usually growing tall and skinny like an Italian cypress tree. It has long shiny leaves with undulate margins (wavy edges).
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| Leaves of Polyathia longifolia |
Some of my favorite plants (
Aglaonema,
Dieffenbachia, and
Calathea) are growing everywhere here.
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| Calathea |
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| Calathea |
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| A pot full of Dieffenbachia |
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| Really large Dieffenbachia |
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| Aglaonema, maybe |
There are also lots of colorful flowering plants around:
Bougainvillea,
Plumeria,
Heliconia,
Canna and things I have never seen before.
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| Some sort of Acanthaceae, possibly Crossandra |
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| Solandra |
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| Heliconia |
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Do you know what this is?
(Update: mr_subjunctive and peaches identified this as Clerodendron thomsoniae)
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There were some other nice Aroids (besides the
Dieffenbachia and
Aglaonema) growing here and there...
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| An aroid climbing a tree. Perhaps Epipremnum or Rhaphidophora. |
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| Homalomena |
There are
Sansevieria growing everywhere. I noticed one in particular that was in bloom.
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| Sansevieria in bloom |
When I finished my leisurely walk, I came back to the hotel, where is some more formal landscaping out front.
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| Agave in front of the hotel |
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| Adenium (foreground) and Cycad (back right) in garden at hotel entrance |
My walk took me to a park about a mile away from the hotel. I'll post pictures from there in a separate post. Stay tuned!
