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Wed 05 Jan 2011

Watch this grow - Flora Singapura by Tony O'Dempsey

Category : internet

We begin the new year with a welcome to Flora Singapura over at florasingapura.com.

Flora SingapuraTony O'Dempsey or 'Orang Hutan' as I have called him all these years, has decided to supplement the 'terse technical descriptions of plants in botanical text books' with illustrations of the flora of Singapore through photographs and commentary, species by species.

His descriptions are in single pages, well illustrated with lovely photos and quaint descriptions, e.g. the photo of the Syzygium cumini tree bears the label, "Its a tough life on top of Mt Serapong."

With some 2,000 species to document, this is going to take him awhile but it will be an enjoyable process. Right now, it's 93 species and counting. I look forward to watching Flora Singapura grow.

Happy New Year everyone!

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