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INTERESTING FEATURES OF BOTANICAL GARDENS:
1. A herbarium which stores plants for research use. ( stores about 650,000 specimens!!!) 2. A room for micropropagation and orchard breeding. ( about 400 registered hybrids!!!) 3. Halls named after former botanic gardens directors. (eg. Ridley Hall is named after Henry Nicholas Ridley)

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS:
= Heritage trees: =

1) //Calophyllum inophyllum//
Common Names//: Penaga Laut, Indian laurel, Laurel wood// Origins: Northern Australia, South-east Asia, Islands on Indian and Pacific Ocean Age: More than 100 years old Family: Guttiferae
 * ======** Slow-growing **======
 * ======** Grows in coastal areas **======
 * ======** Can grow more than 30 metres tall **======
 * ======** Large, spreading dense crown **======
 * ======** Small, white flowers with a yellow center **======
 * ======**Flowers let out a sweet fragrance and open only at night**======

//Genus: Lodoicea//

 * =====**Ornamental tree**=====
 * =====**Used in Ayurvedic medicine and in Traditional Chinese Medicine**=====
 * =====**Can grow up to 34 metres tall, leaves 7-10 metres long and**=====
 * =====**Fan-shaped leaves 7-10 metres long and 4.5 metres wide with a 4 metre long petiole**=====
 * =====**Flowers are catkin-like can grow up to 1 metre long**=====
 * =====**Mature fruit 40-50cm in diameter and can weigh 15-30 kg, largest in history was 42kg**=====
 * =====**Fruit takes 6-7 years to mature**=====
 * =====**Dense crown**=====

Genus: Ceiba. Mill

 * =====**Can grow up to 50 metres tall**=====
 * =====**Fast growing**=====
 * =====**Sheds leaves periodically**=====
 * =====**Pagoda-shaped crown**=====
 * =====**Tiered and horizontal branches**=====
 * =====**Flowers are yellow, white or pink and give out a milky smell**=====
 * =====**Fruits are in a form of green capsules that appear 3 months after flowering and seeds have a wing to catch more wind so to move farther which is also used to make cotton clothes**=====

Age: More than 100 years old

 * =====**Pictured on the Singaporean five-dollar bill**=====
 * =====**Grows in an irregular shape**=====
 * =====**Produces hard wood, hard enough to make a chopping board**=====
 * =====**Fissured bark**=====
 * =====**Looks like a bittergourd**=====
 * =====**Oval, light green leaves**=====
 * =====**Yellow flowers**=====
 * =====**Fruits are bitter tasting red berries eaten by fruit bats**=====

Sub-family//: Mimosoideae//

 * =====**Can grow up to 25 m tall**=====
 * =====**Diameter can go up to 40 m long**=====
 * =====**Symmetrical, spreading crown**=====
 * =====**Leaves fold at night or in the rain**=====
 * =====**Leaves 24-40 cm long**=====
 * =====**Fruits 15-20 cm, dark brown when ripe, shiny when unripe**=====

6) Adenanthera Pavonina Family: Leguminosae Origins: Southeast China and India Common Names: Saga Tree Genus: Abrus
 * **Growing up to about 20m tall **
 * **﻿Has a round uneven spreading crown **
 * **﻿﻿Greyish bark; smooth when yound, roughen with age**
 * **Compound leaves**
 * **Small, star shaped flowers, turning yellow to orange; grow in bunches**
 * **﻿Pods coil up when dry, splitting to liberate the red hard seeds**