23 May 2008

Galanga Flowers and Carpenter Bee

Bunga Lengkuas ( Galanga Flowers) [Alpinia galanga]

and

Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa spp)
More bigger bee here.


[The genus name Alpinia is in memory of an Italian botanist (Prospero Alpina, 1533–1617). The alternative (younger) genus name Languas is based on Malay lengkuas “galanga”]

(reference: Gernot Katzer’s Spice Pages)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi!, Now you have no more birds pictures! ;-0

Redzlan said...

Yes, you are right!
I might change my blog to:-
"Welcome to my insects and wild flowers blog".