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Bombax ceiba
(English Name: Cotton Tree)
Harbour view mansions, Peak Road H.K. March 1979
(large deciduous tree growing in public places and gardens, up to 25m high with Knobby trunk)
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Caesalpinia Bonduc
Ding Hu Shan
(Near the Botanical Institute, West River)
Guangdong Province, South China
April 1982
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Mussaenda erosa
Ding Hu Shan Nature reserve, West River
Growing at the edge of woods throughout South China
(Vine-like shrub)
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Pyrenaria championii
Found in Hong Kong and Yunnan Province
Beautiful evergreen tree growing in wooded valleys
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For Medical Use
Alpinia katsumadai
(now A. hainanensis)
Botanic Garden
Guangzhou, S. China
May 1980
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Cassia javanica
(English Name: Pink Shower)
Outside Department of Public Work main office block,
Garden Road
Beautiful ornamental tree about 20m tall,
widely cultivated in South and East Asia
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Poisonous
Hemerocallis fulva
Tai Mo Shan
(among tall grasses on the hillside
above the Camellia granthamiana;
not before found growing in the wild in H.K.)
October 1982
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Ixora chinensis
In hillside woods in the New Territories,
painting made at Ding Hu Shan, West River
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Calanthe formosana
(Old Name: C. patsinensis)
(English Name: Yellow Calanthe)
Terrestrial orchid growing on banks of shady streams
at high altitude found on Pat Sin Range, New Territories
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Cephalantheropsis gracilis
(English Name: Slender Yellow Orchid)
Pat Sin Range and throughout South China
(A tenestincal orchid growing along streams
at about 900–1000m high . Winter flowering)
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Bauhinia blakeana
Country Club
Deep Water Bay
November 1977
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Bauhinia purpurea
December 1978
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