Count Your Blessings!

With love and passion, everyone can have a nice garden...Elaine Yim

Count Your Blessings!
Count The Garden By The Flowers, Never By The Leaves That Fall.
Count Your Life With Smiles And Not The Tears That Roll.
..... Author unknown.

Knowing me, Knowing you..... Aha.....!

Notice Board

Malaysian Flora USDA Zone 11
Welcome to our exotic world of everlasting summers and tropical rainforests!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The Mickey Mouse Plant from Flower to Fruit - Wordless Wednesday

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.
***********************************************************************************
Family: Ochnaceae
Botanical name: Ochna kirkii
Common name: Mickey Mouse Plant, Bird's Eye Bush, 桂葉黃梅, 米老鼠樹,
Origin: Tropical Africa

Photographs taken by Autumn Belle at The Secret Garden of 1-Utama
Grateful thanks to Dr. Francis Ng of The Secret Garden of 1-Utama.
To participate or view other Wordless Wednesday posts, please click here.
This post is dedicated to Ms Babara_elaine of Gardening in Mannheim, Germany, the first commenter of my previous post, "My Lunar New Year Garden." So head over to her blog to read interesting articles about her gardening adventures and beautiful pictures of nice places in Germany.

27 comments:

  1. That has some funky growing berries...in most vivid color!

    I have three daughters...the one that posted is the one that is obsessed with Johnny Depp. I have another daughter, younger who loves anime. She now wants to do a post for me.
    I think it is wonderful that your daughter has time to read your blog...sometimes they get so busy!


    Hugs,
    Rosey

    ReplyDelete
  2. Stunning little flowers! Happy wordless.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Great photos! The colors are so vivid. Happy WW.

    My entries:
    Moms... Check Nyo
    Yummy-as-can-be

    ReplyDelete
  4. I've never seen this, but how beautiful it is!
    Brenda

    ReplyDelete
  5. I love how these flowers look and their unusual shapes. Thank you for sharing another beautiful flower.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Lovely flowers with such bright colors and interesting berries!

    ReplyDelete
  7. Yet another fascinating plant I've never before encountered. Thank you, dear Autumn, for such a vibrant post on what's a very dull day here.

    ReplyDelete
  8. I seldom check out what they are he ground when I am having my hiking.

    I see yellow flowers, I see also red one.

    Now I know they are all Mickey Mouse.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Very pretty post! It is nice to see pretty blooms this time of year.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Hi, everyone. Happy Morning from Malaysia! Goodday!

    This is my second post on the mickey mouse plant has yellow flowers. The it turns red when the fruits are ripening. Actually the reds are bracts. The fruit 'berries' will turn from green to black. I'm sorry I still can't get the black berries picture yet.

    According to Dr. Francis Ng, this plant just sprung up from the soil, the seeds were probably hidden in the soil when they were bringing in other plants into The Secret Garden. Currently, he has 2 mickey mouse plants there. I think this is heaven sent. Hopefully, I get to photograph the mickey mouse look alike soon, haha!

    I like Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon when I was a kid. My daughter liked the Mickey Mouse Club and Britney Spears then. So I love this mickey mouse plant too. An interesting find for me.

    ReplyDelete
  11. Rosey, I'm keeping my fingers cross that your daughter will have an anime/mangga picture in her post in your blog.

    Rainfield, will you please photograph a mickey mouse flower when the berries turn black?

    Simply Delicious, yes! This is called the mickey mouse plant. you can google it or search under Dave's Garden or Top Tropicals.com

    ReplyDelete
  12. It is a very unique looking flower.
    I wonder if there is any herbal remedy for it?

    ReplyDelete
  13. Who wouldn't love a plant with a name like that! A very interesting and beautiful flower.

    ReplyDelete
  14. interesting that the flower changes colour and the fact it just sprung up out of no where, lovely photos.

    ReplyDelete
  15. It was too bad i cannot see my micky mouse photos, with the fruit already black looking really like mickey mouse. You should go back there when they ripen.

    ReplyDelete
  16. i think some Chinese homes have this plant. I wonder if the plant holds any auspicious meaning also. But it is cute to see yellow and red appearing in one plant.

    ReplyDelete
  17. glad to know it smells nice - I figured something so beautiful oozing in such a way would either smell really good or really bad! that last photo is really interesting. I like how you can see both flower and berry. At least that's what I think I see!

    ReplyDelete
  18. we don't have those flowers here but those are really beautiful

    ReplyDelete
  19. Carol, Sandy, Deb, Melanie, Wendy, Ayie, thanks for the visit and wonderful commens!

    James, I'm not so sure about the medicinal values of this species but I have read that some African tribes press the oil from the seeds to make hair oil and lubricants.

    Andrea, oh dear, I can't go there every week, therefore my visits may not coincide with the changeover to black berries :(


    Stephanie, I do not know whether there are any auspicious meanings but I think the yellow and red colours are very auspicous indeed.

    ReplyDelete
  20. Thanks for the dedication, I'm honored. Sorry for replying so late, I've been offline for a while. I see you've now replaced the falling snow with falling blossoms - just lovely!

    ReplyDelete
  21. Beautiful flower with an interesting charming name! Never seen it before. Thanks for posting this!

    ReplyDelete

Words are like the voice of the heart... Confucius

Note: If you are unable to comment on my latest post, click on the post title to reopen the post and try writing your comments again. Comments under "Anonymous" will be automatically treated as spam if no name is included.

LinkWithin

Blog Widget by LinkWithin