Damrong, what is your problem with me Grasshopper photo as I was taken in Koh Samui Butterfly Garden many a year a go 2003.

Win

Grass hoppers don't do that here on Samui!.... KW...

Relax, Kant Win, he meant no direct problem. IMO his reply merely commented on your photo illustrating this particular grasshopper likes 'to get it on' with your flower.. No bad intended...

The leaf is the root of the flower

I was "yanking your chain" ,Kan Win about the grass hopper!!!! Off course we have them on Samui

Here is an orchid growing in Khao Sok National park, (probably not native) but I have never seen this type of flower on an orchid!

Sad really, but it did happen in Kan.

Rest in Peace flowers for Vanessa and Adam




Win

Rafflesia kerrii, from Khao Sok National Park, South Thailand. see also:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/612428-raffleasia-in-bloom-now-at-khao-sok-np/


Rafflesia kerri - 2 small buds on a vine root


Rafflesia kerri - A bud almost ready to bloom


Can see easy how the Rafflesia parasitizes the roots of a vine (2 small buds visible down)


Rafflesia kerri


Rafflesia kerri - Detail of the flower


Rafflesia kerri - Another detail of the unusual flower

Sunflower !

oh we are lagging behind on flowers here !!!!

Strophanthus in my garden!

Valentines

Orchid and Hibiscus

This one comes out once every 2 to 3 years in my garden (well my garden is all concrete floor) hanging from a tree



Win

and then the most famous Plumeria

The name Leelawadee (originating from Thailand)

Win

I love the smell of this flower.... (name escapes me at the moment! )

I love the smell of this flower.... (name escapes me at the moment! )

Yes, had that one in the garden of a property we just sold....great smell, if from memory like a thick licorice scent.

This is a very interesting plant....I called it the cockfungi.....walking around our farm I could smell a very strong bedroom smell....the same smell of content just before wanting to roll over and go to sleep...the smell of semen.

The smell was so strong you could smell it 20m away and I went on the hunt for some dirty little bugger in the bush....but found this.

This is a very interesting plant....I called it the cockfungi.....walking around our farm I could smell a very strong bedroom smell....the same smell of content just before wanting to roll over and go to sleep...the smell of semen.

The smell was so strong you could smell it 20m away and I went on the hunt for some dirty little bugger in the bush....but found this.

Well that is certainly interesting.... very descriptive too!

Sunflower fields in Lopburi.

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Peacock flower... these small trees hardly ever stop blooming

My neighbor grows some great hibiscus!

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Beautiful flowers at Suan Mae Fah Luang, Chiang Rai

Flower girl......, moonlighting, staring in the headlights.. Very melancholic.

Somewhere down the capital..

Not very colourful, but mango flowers turning into fruit......my frontyard.

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Boon Rawd Farm, Chiang Rai

Orchids

Lotus.... done!

Waking the topic back up. Both photos taken in our front yard.