Nona up close!

I googled and found out that Custard Apples are of the Annonaceae family ~ Annona reticulata. Its flower has 3 thick petals that are light green on the outside, probably fused with the sepals, and light yellow on the inside.

This flower is in early stage as can be seen by the smaller centre and the stamens still look fresh.





This stamens of this one in later stage of bloom have dried up and fallen off.

Nona a plenty!

After an absence of 17 days, I returned to a happy garden. I left it in the care of a friend who came and pick caterpillars off the pomelo and water some potted plants once a week. And all's well!

The custard apple (or what my friends in Penang call "nona") flowers are unusual - forgotten what it looked like the last time as there was only one. Now there are a few in various stages of blooming and I really don't know how to describe them - so see it for yourself :)







The 5 new okra plants have grown but their leaves are different from the previous batch in that it is rather completely round rather than sharply tri-lobed! I wonder why - it was from my previous plant - so, what happened? Recently, in Penang, I saw an okra plant that had distinct tri-lobed leaves.