Crowding In. Clitoria ternatea, Butterfly Pea, and Calliandra haematocephala, Red Powder Puff, Titiwangsa, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Both the white and the bright-blue forms of Clitoria ternatea are quite something to behold. One of their first describers was Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627-1702) on the Maluku island of Ternate (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/4297609644/in/photolis...). They're now all over the tropics and are often regarded - for example in Australia - as an environmental weed. It crowds out native plants and by its tenacious vines 'strangles' just about anything in its path.
Here in the the pretty Titiwangsa Park of Kuala Lumpur it's set to take over the colorful hedges of innocent Red Powder Puff, Calliandra haematocephala.
Crowding In. Clitoria ternatea, Butterfly Pea, and Calliandra haematocephala, Red Powder Puff, Titiwangsa, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Both the white and the bright-blue forms of Clitoria ternatea are quite something to behold. One of their first describers was Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627-1702) on the Maluku island of Ternate (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/4297609644/in/photolis...). They're now all over the tropics and are often regarded - for example in Australia - as an environmental weed. It crowds out native plants and by its tenacious vines 'strangles' just about anything in its path.
Here in the the pretty Titiwangsa Park of Kuala Lumpur it's set to take over the colorful hedges of innocent Red Powder Puff, Calliandra haematocephala.