Greetings, The following plants have caused me to search throughout the internet for hours looking for the right scientific name for each of them: For the one with 2 plants in the picture, I am sure that the left one is Petrea volubilis. The right one I suspect to be Bougainvillea spectabilis, however I am not certain. I need verification for the right one. As for the picture with the monocot (I think) plant (the one with leaves that have sharp edges, with the small, barely clear flower), I have no clue what it is. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Do you have any more info on the plants; growth habit, location, flower appearance, etc.? #1 appears to be a dicot not a monocot, if that helps your search at all. Also if any other photos are available to post, that would help too.
I found the plants in botanical gardens in the mountains in northern Thailand (where I live). Actually, at first, I jotted down the names. However, I discovered, after collecting hundreds of samples and jotting down names, there were two completely different species of plants, yet with the same name. I eliminated all the possibilities and concluded that I jotted down the name wrongly. The picture with two plants (the left one I've identified): The right one was originally white, and it was not from a tree. It's most likely from some bush (shrub) on the ground. I suspect this flower to be a white Bougainvillea spectabilis (as it was originally white), however, I'm not certain. Can someone point out what it is? The picture with the dicot (leaf with jagged ends) I forget where I got it. However, it's definitely not gymnospermae, because most likely I didn't pick it off a tree. I found that one in Feburary too. Thanks.
Bougainvillea spectabilis fits pretty well with the picture and the description. See if it looks like this when folded out: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/baci/BiclPod.jpg Also, if this is by chance the gardens you visited: http://www.qsbg.org/generalinfo.asp than maybe you could e-mail them with a description of the plants, and there location in the gardens.
Thanks. The first two I've got identified now. The third one, we are left with nothing but a leaf (the link you sent is the place I went, so I'll ask them). I wonder how we could identify it. For one, as you kindly pointed out, it is a dicot. Second of all, it has jagged ends (I forget what we called 'jagged end' in taxonomy). The flower is all withered up and unrecognizable. Dicot+Jagged End+Feburary =? I'll get some more information from my friend when she gets back. She's the one who found this leaf.
