Bakawali flower buds decided to bloom the same night on 11th of April 2014. We didn't take the pots inside to view the blooming process. However, the night earlier, we did take one small pot in, enjoying the fragrance of one blooming bakawali. When all the five flowers bloomed the following night, we went out once a while to view the beauty and fragrance. The bakawali giveaways kept by Farah our eldest daughter in Jitra also bloomed the same night. And so did another plant kept by Siti in Bangi. I suppose plants talk to their siblings and plan for blooming surprise at three different locations.
I took pictures the next morning,
when flowering process was all over.
The stalks limped,
straightened
by sheer pull of gravity.
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| 12th April 2014 - a day after blooming, all five |
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| 12th April 2014 - a day after blooming, all five |
After a week, the whole flower from stalk to petals dry up.
It would be a matter of time before the whole thing drop off
as residue of beauty and exotic fragrance.
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| 19th April 2014 - a week after blooming |
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| 19th April - a week after blooming |
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| Dry Bakawali flower 19th April 2014 - dry stalk in focus |
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| Dry Bakawali flower 19th April 2014 - dry flower in focus |
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| Dry Bakawali flower - a week after blooming |
It is at this stage, that bakawali flowers are said to have medicinal value.
I have never tried though
_____________bangchik and kakdah_____________
my little vegetable garden
SERI KEMBANGAN
- January 2011 ( Bunga Bakawali Blooming, the stages )
So interesting the Bakawali flowered on three places at the same night. I can imagine the overwhelming fragrance, lovely.
ReplyDeletePlant has family too, and they connect like us I guess.
Deleteits nice to take time to smell flowers, amazed with same interest grew same kind at different place, it mustve run in the blood :)
ReplyDeleteagree with you babypose..... yes, run in the blood, or genetic code.
DeleteAlso suitable in a therapeutic garden/path...
ReplyDeleteyes, with such aroma, there would be calming /soothing effect.
DeleteThe flower is big and beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBut the beauty lasts only a night.
yes rainnie..., great singer will appear just for the night..., and not many nights in a year... hehe.
DeleteI wonder if this is the plant my parents had when i was little. It bloomed for a very short period of time - just hours or so and the fragrance filled the room.
ReplyDeleteThe way you explained it, yes this is the plant.
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