Interesting Plants Of Singapore
Toddy Palm-from which the Indian alcoholic drink Toddy is made Mexican Golden Flame Vine Bleeding Heart Vine Hankerchief Tree Golden Chain Blood Banana tree Bottle Tree Tongkat Ali [Ali's Walking Stick]-the Malay aphrodisiac The Nipple Tree Rarely seen flower of Cannonball Tree It's such a pleasure to meet an interesting taxi driver. After the fall of the Soviet Union and with the closing down of many State establishments, you would meet cabbies who could make really stimulating conversation with you. There were the ex-KGB men who were still feeling grouchy about the whole thing. I once met a former Nuclear Physicist who was retrenched from his Research Center in Siberia and became a Moscow cab driver. There were cabbies who played Tchaikovsky on their cab radios and could discuss Tolstoy's War And Peace with you. Recently I met a Singapore cab driver who amazed me with his knowledge of the botanical life here. He could identify hundreds of plants, trees and shrub...