Bali: Some Plants
This post is mainly for Daxin, unless there’s another botanically-inclined reader out there. Here are two interesting plants we saw in Bali. The first is in a pot in the Tirta Gangga (Water Palace) near Amlapura:
Below is a closeup- or at least as close as I could get in the conditions:
It looks like a hybrid of a begonia and a cactus – who can identify it?
Meanwhile, below is a flower that grows in tangles on rural roadsides by the sea:
I happen to know the name of this one, because it appears in local cookbooks. An extract is made of its flowers that’s used to dye rice blue, if you want that effect in a dessert. The name in the recipes is clitoridia.