Oct 11, 2009

Kesidang's buds seem to be burned without blooming.

We relocated the thirsty and pouting tree beside our patio, the original position. We moved it thinking a sunnier spot will prevent Kesidang leaves to turn brown.
Pics of Kesidang leaf turning brown, here's 1st phase.

Starts to get tinge of brown in phase 2.

Uggh! Phase 3, the leaf falls off easily. One or two, perhaps I need to adjust to minimal watering. But everyday, we're get 2 or 3 brown leaves falling off at alarming rate. Gone are the lush green leaves we saw it at the nursery?
2 weeks ago, we moved the pot next to our porch for full sun from noon till 7pm. All leaves pouting by noon and for next 6 hours, dreadful looking. It has many buds, 30% of them seems to be burned brown and rest takes forever to swell to bloom.

Recently, we moved it back to the original spot today for 50% sunlight from 3pm till 6pm. Perky Kesidang leaves from morning then 6 hours later, unnoticeable pouting but looked agreeble - maybe today's cloudy weather? Will be monitoring for the next 2 weeks. Not to keen about plant on ground for now. It looks balance beside something vertical, i.e. porch, patio, wall, etc, so haven't decided which spot to plant on ground.

New leaves unfolds. Interesting indeed.
We're getting its wonderful fragrance, day and night. Buds bloom on differently days then fade, so it looks like a week long of  Water Jasmine (Wrightia Religiosa)'s fragrance.
Planned to start pruning and wiring when all flowers finished blooming.

3 comments:

James David said...

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Kesidang - is it a herb, or fragrance shrub?

Jaime Boey said...

*chuckle* your comments are most welcome ;-)

When Kesidang in bloom gives out sweet fragrance, like Bunga Cempaka but has a creeping habit. Quite lasting bloom for 2-3 days or until the heat takes it toll. Grown for deco, has many names "bunga kerak nasi", "bunga tikam seladang" and "bunga kesindungan" in various part of Semenanjung M'sia. As far as I know, it is not edible.

James David said...

Thanks for the tip - will look out for this one to plant in my garden.

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