Flowers and trees

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Date: 06 April 2012 18:05:08

I loved that the flowers and especially the trees are so different in Australia. We visited several botanic gardens on our trip, so I have many floral photographs. I'll identify what I can.

20120406-185655.jpg This is the orchid named for Princess Diana, in Singapore botanical gardens.

20120406-185902.jpg Mangrove swamp at Palm Cove. I walked quickly through this, I can tell you, not wanting to get bitten!

20120406-190055.jpg Sydney Botanic Gardens - we were told the Latin name for this spectacular tree but I can't recall it.

20120406-190213.jpg This was in the car park at Uluru . Looks rather chilli like.

20120406-190346.jpg How could I omit the beautiful Chinese gardens in Sydney? The small tree in the centre is an apricot, there are fruit on it, rather larger than the fruit I know.