F L A M A B O Y N

When this plant came from (Madagascar. ever thought it?), Has it been Javanese streets' fence 'since 1950's, and nailed down the love songs of every generation of Indonesians.

Flamboyant trees is very high, they exceed the height of a London double-decker buses (which we imported to be put as passenger buses in Solo, Central Java, in 1985).

The main disadvantage of this plant is that it becomes completely bald half of the year. But even if it is still unable to get sold anyway. Who would buy a 15-foot tree?

Jasmine

MLATHI | Indonesian name: melati

Jasmine is for sale. Not as a potted plant, but as a mass plucked the petals or buds. This is the main material for a traditional Javanese wedding accessories (click here to see what it is).

A lot of Javanese and Indonesian 'classic' songs is about this flower because of its connotation with weddings.


None sell as lidah buaya to anybody PLANT Haven in Indonesia.

Crocodile's Tongue

ILAT BÓYÓ | Indonesian name: lidah buaya

I really doubt that even my ancestors have ever seen the things for real, but this plant has been known as' crocodile's tongue "in both its Javanese and Indonesian names.

Whether it truly resembles a crocodile's tongue or not, each leaf of this plant, you might have known as Aloe vera has been used by the Javanese as an ingredient of homemade shampoo since the 1500's. Then in 1960 came the Unilever, and the thing has been cultivated for factories, though the function remains the same.

No one sells a lidah buaya to anyone's garden plants in Indonesia.

MAWAR

The picture above is the most common type of roses that are planted in Java and Indonesia. As I have said virtually everywhere else around this site, the Javanese and Indonesian peoples roses has never been something romantic, and we never think of them as being related to the elusive concept called 'beauty'. So if an Indonesian woman says she like Candlelight and roses and diamonds, only the last item is true. Light is nothing romantic in real Indonesians either are only useful when the notorious Indonesian Electric Company blowing up his job - that is, when there is no electricity at home because of chronic problems. In real life, red and white roses in Indonesia has grown and for their leaves that are plucked and sold in traditional markets to people on their way to the cemetery.

EKOR KUCING

Somehow the Javanese still refer to this plant in Indonesia. The name means "the cat's tail."

The "tail" is impressive, botanically speaking. It is 25 inches long, bushy and cats as true "queues as long as it's not that cats Indonesian you mean. The shrub itself, with hundreds of deep red-tails "is more than 5 feet tall.

KOCOPIRING

| Indonesian name: kacapiring The name means "China", as in dining plates and bowls, or, if anglicized literally, "glass". In some places it as "Gardenia". This plant was probably under the charge of Javanese be downloaded by Chinese ships 1200's. It is more beautiful than roses, and the smell is bigger, too, and certainly more - you can sniff it out one miles away, or so it seems. Real kacapiring is a tree. A tall, bushy tree, whose height is approximately the same as that of everyone in the Chicago Bulls, with the exception of the trainer. But this plant is not in connection with financial things.

SOKA | Indonesian name: angsoka

Ananicados and sold in large pots, is what this Javanese flowers' luck these days. It's happening since 1990. Before that, SOKA grew in large trees in their own people in the old-fashioned gardens. The other is white color of the flowers.

ÈNCÈNG GÓNDHÓK | Indonesian name: eceng gondok

This thing is growing at lightspeed wherever she tossed, as long as the place of the reservoir. So the Indonesians in general consider it as a danger and pestilential plant, and not anything good until 1990. In 1990, some "experts" in gardening and such - Indonesia never Marty Stuart, thank God, - began a campaign for the plant, as civilized garden element. His violet light (the color of flowers) is beautiful, like transparent watercolor stroke, but this is not why the Central Javanese never complained about this factory choking our waterways, even when Jakartanese same loudly every day. The entire plant, were found beaten and dried and made submissions in the Central Javanese crafts ranging from 1980's.

KANTHIL

There is no Indonesian name for this flower plant. Most Indonesians do not even know it exists, and the Javanese which is an archaic way of life thing that should have belonged to people always maintain skeletons of T-Rex, but it was not live. In good times, this flower has been made in some perfumes by people who work for the Javanese kings. Until 1970's, which was still an ingredient of animistic bid. Now it's just a rare greeny stuff. Needless to say, is not to be found to be sold anywhere in this country.

GANYÓNG | Indonesian name: kana

Some have said this throughout the year, came from the flower Caribbeans. Maybe so, but this has been the ingredient of any Javanese garden since hundreds of years ago, and growing by themselves in rural roads and neglected fields. It is not the venda, either, except in big cities where everything is.

TAPAK DÓRÓ | Indonesian name: tapak dara

The name means' the footsteps of doves'. This shrub has no monetary value in Java, ie not florist sells them, and the plant itself can not be bought anywhere. If you want to grow some in your garden, you have people crawling yards and ask for them the first local to start hunting dogs leave the premises.