BUNGA BAKAWALI, coming soon.

Bunga bakawali is mysterious, it will start blooming slowly as daylight thins down and by midnight it is ready to close down slowly, and by the next morning it will limp.  We had three bloomings, the first one was last early year  12.1.2011  (click here: Bunga Bakawali Blooming, the stages.) . The second time was in Kelantan sometime in July last year  but we had to be outstation so by the time we came back, it was all over. The third was this year in January, again we we had to be away when it bloomed.  It looks like we would be lucky with this bunga bakawali.

 (Bunga Bakawali in Malaysia, Wijaya Kusuma in indonesia, Queen of the night, Night-blooming Cereus, Dutchman's Pipe, Gul-e-Bakavali  in Hindi, Kadupul in Sinhala)

bunga bakawali: front view

bunga bakawali: slightly to the left

bunga bakawali: the stalk is almost 8 inches.

another bunga bakawali, still a baby

another bunga bakawali, very small

Nizam has agreed to set up time lapse photo shots, two cameras for front and side view. I think the show time is going to be tomorrow......to see the mysterious flower blooming and smell  the most intoxicating extravagant fragrance on earth. 

bangchik and kakdah

pasir gudang, johor