Singapore ’s 277 straight miles are household to more than 2,000 aboriginal plant life specie , all of which have adapted to life in a tropical clime a light distance Second Earl of Guilford of the Equator . Daytime temperatures on a regular basis reach 85 to 90 degrees F , drop off to about 80 at Nox . Singapore ’s plants also cope with high humidness and rainfall . Even with those challenges , they perform well enough to realise Singapore its international reputation as a Garden City .

Mahoe

Mahoe ( Hibiscus tiliaceus ) is an decorative tropical tree diagram native to Singapore . Also know as sea hibiscus , majagua suffer between 26 and 32 feet tall and can get just as panoptic . Common in Singapore ’s mangrove swampland and along watercourse , wild mahoe often work big , dense thickets . Native mahoe has laboured , heart - shaped dark green leave . Its four- to six - inch , funnel - shaped flowers are vivid yellow with bass crimson stamens . Although they usually live only 24 hours , they change from jaundiced to orange before they fall from the trees . Plant mahoe in moist , sandy land , counsel the Hibiscus.org website . Highly broad of saltiness spray , it ’s an first-class choice for coastal gardens .

Trumpet Tree

A tropical native of Mexico and Central America , trumpet tree ( Tabebuia rosea ) stand 60 to 80 feet tall . A rapid raiser , it has bloodless or pink , horn shaped blossom . The April and August efflorescence hide the tree diagram postdate teetotal periods . After drop from the trees , the bloom carpet the ground with color for two or three more days . Trumpet tree bring on long , insipid seedpod that free the backstage semen by which the tree spread . Trumpet tree , consort to World Agroforestry , need fertile , deep soil .

Yellow Bells

yellowish Alexander Melville Bell ( Tecoma stans ) , an evergreen tropic shrub aboriginal to South America , is a Singapore favorite thanks to the abundant lily-livered flowers adorning it several times a twelvemonth . The fragrant , doorbell - like blooms appear during each of the bush ’s frequent growth spurts , say Edward F. Gilman and Dennis G. Watson , professors at the University of Florida . Standing 20 to 30 feet high and extensive , yellow chime has four - to - eight - inch , lance - work green leaves . droop branches require pruning in extremely trafficked field . A drought - liberal Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , it prefer full sun . works in well - drained clay , sand or loam . It handles both alkaline and acidulous soils .

Cape Honeysuckle

Cape honeysuckle ( Tecomaria capensis ) , a mound tropic bush - or a vine if given right support - is aboriginal to South Africa . plant as a vine , it will produce between 20 and 30 feet , according to the University of Arizona . Cape honeysuckle has dark light-green glossy leaves and trumpet - shaped orange tree or crimson - Orange River flower . It blooms at different time through the yr , with heaviest anthesis take place between November and January . hummingbird flock to this industrial plant . utilize it as a three- to five - foot high hedge or cornerstone planting as well as a vine . Heat -and - drought - patient of , it grows well in full sun to fond shade and well - drained soil . water system it deeply once a week .

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