Flowers: ochna serrulata, mickey mouse flower, money tree

This plant can grow high as a house. I find the flowers interesting, they do look like Mickey mouse with their bright red, yellow and black(seeds). I spent a long time looking for the scientific name and I am happy to post this photo:

May have to post sharper photos in a future revisions or one can view the Facebook album.

This photo was taken by my HS25EXR on April, 25, 2013.

Plant	Ochna Serrulata
Common name	Mickey mouse flower
Camera	Olympus VG-110
Photographer	Dr. Ernesto P. Adorio
Album	Facebook(Ernesto Adorio)

Flowers: rubia flower

Here is a photo of a rare rubia, rare in the sense that the flower is usually not listed in garden guides!

Plant	Rubia
location	Pulupandan, Negros Occidental
Photographer	Ella Bernales Jacildo
Album	Facebook(Ella Bernales Jacildo)

Photographed owned by Ella Bernales Jacildo. Published with permission.

Plants: chlorophytum comosum, spider or ribbon plant

I may be wrong but I am labeling the plant in this photo as a spider or ribbon plant. I recall my mother and sisters have potted versions of this plant, long ago, which looks like a grass.

Here is a variety, "vittatum" where the white stripes are more prominent, from Susan Estrope Dicker:

Flower	chlorophytum comosum, "vittatum" (2nd photo)
Commmon names	ribbon, spider plant
Camera	Olympus VG-110(first photo), Panasonic Lumix S3(second photo)
Location	Patag, Silay
Camera	Olympus VG-110
Photographer	Dr. Ernesto P. Adorio
Reference	Wikipedia

Second image owned by Susan Estrope Dicker, used with permission.



Revisions:

• Aug. 9, corrected the spelling, added Susan's photo.

Flowers: chrysothemis pulchella, copper leaf

I found our specimen growing in the highlands of Patag. It belongs to the family Gesneriad and is a native to Central and Sourth America.

Plant	Chrysothemis pulchella
Common name	copper leaf
Location	Highland of Patag, Silay
Camera	Olympus VG-110
Photographer	Dr. Ernesto P. Adorio
Reference	wikipedia

Flowers: Bleeding Hearts vine, Glory bower vine, Clerodendrum thomsoniae

Our friend from Australia, posted a photo of the glory bower vine or bleeding heart vine, in an album. We republish it here, with her permission, so anyone would be able to recognize this stunning vine with bloody red flowers on white spathes.

Not to be confused with the non-vine version.

Plant	Clerodendrum thomsoniae.
Common name	Glory Bower vine, Bleeding heart vine
Photographer	Susan Entrope Dicker
Reference	Wikipedi
Album	Facebook(by Susan Entrope Dicker)

Photo image owned by Susan Entrope Dicker. Published with permission.

Insects: butterfly

I enjoy finding the common and scientific names of plants and flowers. I hesitate to do that with butterflies. Here is one clear photo, after many attempts catching it, at UP Clarkfield.

Here is another shot of the same(supposedly) butterfly.

I will appreciate it if a reader identifies the beautiful butterfly.


Photos taken by Ernesto Adorio,PhD. with an Olympus VG-110 digital compact camera.

Sky photos: an overcast rainy sky.

The moonsoon rains make the sky look gloomy, but a light plane punctures the gloom. Yet the colors are washed out by the dark sky. Photo taken at U.P. Clarkfield,Pampanga, with an Olympus VG-110 digital compact camera.

Photo owned by Adorio Digital Image Library. All rights reserved.