Flowers of Asia
Lotus and jasmine, marigold garlands, cherry and plum blossom, orchids, peonies and ikebana. 625 pages on Phool so far.
🇨🇳 China 400🇮🇳 India 261🇯🇵 Japan 217🇲🇲 Myanmar 88🇹🇷 Turkey 83🇮🇷 Iran 82🇷🇺 Russia 79🇹🇭 Thailand 64🇻🇳 Vietnam 59🇵🇭 Philippines 57🇮🇩 Indonesia 55🇳🇵 Nepal 50🇱🇰 Sri Lanka 47🇧🇩 Bangladesh 41🇵🇰 Pakistan 40🇲🇾 Malaysia 38🇹🇼 Taiwan 34🇮🇱 Israel 29🇦🇫 Afghanistan 28🇸🇾 Syria 25🇬🇪 Georgia 24🇧🇹 Bhutan 23🇱🇦 Laos 22🇰🇷 South Korea 22🇲🇳 Mongolia 21🇰🇭 Cambodia 20🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 20🇨🇾 Cyprus 15🇸🇬 Singapore 15🇺🇿 Uzbekistan 15🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 14🇮🇶 Iraq 14🇦🇲 Armenia 13🇱🇧 Lebanon 12🇹🇯 Tajikistan 12🇵🇸 Palestine 11🇭🇰 Hong Kong 8🇯🇴 Jordan 7🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan 7🇾🇪 Yemen 7🇹🇲 Turkmenistan 6🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 5🇰🇵 North Korea 4🇲🇻 Maldives 2🇴🇲 Oman 2🇧🇭 Bahrain 1🇧🇳 Brunei 1🇲🇴 Macau 1
Decoration
Bonsai盆栽
The Japanese art of shaping miniature trees in shallow pots
🇯🇵 Japan and 7 more · Art or design
Decoration
Onam
Kerala’s ten-day harvest festival with flower carpets, feasts and boat races
🇮🇳 India and 1 more · Custom, Aug to Sep
Place
Sim's Park, Coonoor
A century-old botanical garden in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu
Coonoor, 🇮🇳 India · Botanical garden, May
Place
Baldha Gardenবলধা গার্ডেন
A historic botanical garden in Old Dhaka with hundreds of plant species
Dhaka, 🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Botanical garden
Place
Huis Ten Boschハウステンボス
A Dutch-themed park with canals, windmills, and seasonal flower gardens in Nagasaki, Japan
Sasebo, 🇯🇵 Japan · Flower garden
Place
Hallim Park한림공원
A large botanical park with lava caves and themed gardens on Jeju Island
Hallim, 🇰🇷 South Korea · Botanical garden
Place
China National Botanical Garden国家植物园
A vast botanical garden in Beijing with research, rare plants, and public displays
Beijing, 🇨🇳 China · Botanical garden
Place
Phu Hin Rong Kla National Parkอุทยานแห่งชาติภูหินร่องกล้า
A cool, mountainous national park in northern Thailand with forests and waterfalls
Loei, 🇹🇭 Thailand · Bloom site
Place
Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens香港動植物公園
A historic garden and zoo in Central, Hong Kong with themed plant collections
🇨🇳 China · Botanical garden
Place
Penang Botanic GardensTaman Kebun Bunga
A historic botanical garden at the foot of Penang’s waterfall in George Town
George Town, 🇲🇾 Malaysia · Botanical garden
Place
Da LatĐà Lạt
Vietnam’s highland city famous for flowers, cool climate, and French villas
Central Highlands, 🇻🇳 Vietnam · Flower garden
Place
La Trinidad
The valley town in Benguet known for strawberries and cut flowers
Bahong, 🇵🇭 Philippines · Bloom site
Place
National Kandawgyi Botanical Gardensကန်တော်ကြီး အမျိုးသား ရုက္ခဗေဒ ဥယျာဉ်
A large botanical garden in the hill town of Pyin U Lwin, Myanmar
Mandalay, 🇲🇲 Myanmar · Botanical garden, December
Place
Jerusalem Botanical Gardensהגן הבוטני האוניברסיטאי ירושלים
A 30-acre garden in Jerusalem with plants from six continents
Jerusalem, 🇮🇱 Israel · Botanical garden
ChampakMagnolia champaca
A tall tree with fragrant yellow to orange flowers, prized in South and Southeast Asia
🇲🇲 Myanmar and 7 more · Flowering tree
Black-eyed Susan vineThunbergia alata
A fast-growing climbing plant with bright flowers and a dark centre
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Garden flower
Pinwheel flowerTabernaemontana divaricata
A fragrant white-flowered shrub native to South and Southeast Asia
🇲🇲 Myanmar and 2 more · Flowering shrub
Scarlet jungleflameIxora coccinea
A dense evergreen shrub with year-round scarlet flower clusters
🇮🇳 India and 6 more · Flowering shrub
Place
Purwodadi Botanical Garden
A large botanical garden and plant research centre in East Java, Indonesia
Purwodadi, 🇮🇩 Indonesia · Botanical garden
Place
Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Gardenสวนนงนุชพัทยา
A vast tropical garden and plant collection near Pattaya, Thailand
Pattaya, 🇹🇭 Thailand · Botanical garden
Place
Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden
Thailand’s largest botanical garden with year-round displays and orchid breeding
Chiang Mai, 🇹🇭 Thailand · Botanical garden
Place
South China National Botanical Garden华南国家植物园
A major botanical garden in Guangzhou with diverse plant collections and research focus
Guangzhou, 🇨🇳 China · Botanical garden
Decoration
Pūjā in Buddhism𑀧𑀽𑀚𑀸
A ritual offering and devotional act in Buddhist practice
🇮🇳 India and 3 more · Offering or rite
Place
Bali Botanic GardenKebun Raya Bali
Indonesia’s largest botanic garden in the cool mountains of central Bali
Bedugul, 🇮🇩 Indonesia · Botanical garden
Decoration
Kanzashi簪
Traditional Japanese hair ornaments, often crafted as folded silk flowers
🇯🇵 Japan · Arrangement
Place
Nunobiki Herb Garden布引ハーブ園
A large herb garden on Mount Rokkō above Kobe, Japan
Kobe, 🇯🇵 Japan · Botanical garden
Place
Mehtab Bagh
A Mughal riverside garden facing the Taj Mahal in Agra
Agra, 🇮🇳 India · Flower garden
Place
Singapore Botanic Gardens新加坡植物园
Singapore’s historic tropical garden and World Heritage Site
Tanglin, 🇸🇬 Singapore · Botanical garden
Vanda falcata
A small fragrant orchid from East Asia, prized for its white flowers and many forms
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Wildflower
Place
Fairylake Botanical Garden仙湖植物园
A vast botanical garden at the foot of Wutong Mountain in Shenzhen, China
Shenzhen, 🇨🇳 China · Botanical garden
Place
Henarathgoda Botanical Garden
A historic botanical garden known for its tropical plant collections and rubber trees
Colombo, 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Botanical garden
Place
National Botanic Garden of Bangladesh
The largest plant conservation garden in Bangladesh, in Dhaka’s Mirpur area
Dhaka, 🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Botanical garden
Beach naupakaScaevola taccada
A salt-tolerant shrub with fan-shaped white flowers on tropical beaches
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Bengal trumpetThunbergia grandiflora
A climbing vine with large blue-violet trumpet flowers from Southeast Asia
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Climber
Arabian jasmineJasminum sambac
A small white jasmine with a strong, sweet scent, treasured in Asia for garlands and ceremonies
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Place
Lalbagh Botanical Garden
Historic botanical garden and flower show venue in Bengaluru, India
Bengaluru, 🇮🇳 India · Botanical garden, Jan to Aug
Place
Nanjing Botanical Garden, Memorial Sun Yat-Sen南京中山植物园
A historic botanical garden beside Purple Mountain in Nanjing, China
Nanjing, 🇨🇳 China · Botanical garden
Decoration
Kolamகோலம்
South Indian geometric floor art made with rice flour or powder at home entrances
🇮🇳 India and 5 more · Carpet or floor pattern
Place
Bahá'í Terraces
Nineteen garden terraces rising up Mount Carmel in Haifa
Haifa, 🇮🇱 Israel · Flower garden
Place
Zakir Husain Rose Garden
A vast rose garden and festival site in Chandigarh, India
Chandigarh, 🇮🇳 India · Flower garden, Jan to Dec
Place
Rose and Jasmine Garden
A public garden in Islamabad with hundreds of rose and jasmine varieties
Islamabad, 🇵🇰 Pakistan · Flower garden
Place
Burnham Park
Historic city park with gardens, a lake, and leisure spaces in Baguio, Philippines
Baguio, 🇵🇭 Philippines · Flower garden
Place
Jurong Lake Gardens
Singapore’s national garden of Chinese, Japanese, and Lakeside gardens around Jurong Lake
🇸🇬 Singapore · Flower garden, Jan to Oct
Place
Gardens by the BayTaman di Persisiran / 滨海湾花园 / வளைகுடா தோட்டம்
Singapore’s waterfront gardens with giant Supertrees and world-class glasshouses
Downtown Core, 🇸🇬 Singapore · Flower garden
Ixora
Tropical evergreen shrubs with clusters of small, bright flowers
🇮🇳 India and 4 more · Garden flower
KadambaNeolamarckia cadamba
A tropical tree with fragrant orange globe-shaped flowers from South and Southeast Asia
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Flowering tree
Place
Odori Park大通公園
A long city park and event space in central Sapporo, Hokkaido
Sapporo, 🇯🇵 Japan · Flower garden
Shirui lilyLilium mackliniae
A rare lily found only in the hills of Manipur, India
🇮🇳 India · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bonsai: Ragesoss, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Onam: Jiteshgt, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sim's Park, Coonoor: Thangaraj Kumaravel, CC BY 2.0, source
- Baldha Garden: Muntasir du, Public domain, source
- Huis Ten Bosch: JKT-c, CC BY 3.0, source
- Hallim Park: Grapesurgeon, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- China National Botanical Garden: Daderot, Public domain, source
- Phu Hin Rong Kla National Park: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens: No machine-readable author provided. NBG626 assumed (based on copyrigh, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Penang Botanic Gardens: Dr htgoon, CC0, source
- Da Lat: Roy Kim, CC BY 2.0, source
- La Trinidad: Irvin Parco Sto. Tomas, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- National Kandawgyi Botanical Gardens: Mydaydream89, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Jerusalem Botanical Gardens: Adiel lo, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Champak: Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.), Public domain, source
- Black-eyed Susan vine: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Pinwheel flower: SKsiddhartthan, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Scarlet jungleflame: UpstateNYer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Purwodadi Botanical Garden: Pinerineks, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden: User:Amada44, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- South China National Botanical Garden: Nrya, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pūjā in Buddhism: Luca Galuzzi ( Lucag ), CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Bali Botanic Garden: No machine-readable author provided. Hullie assumed (based on copyrigh, Public domain, source
- Kanzashi: Anonymous ( Japan ) Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Nunobiki Herb Garden: 663highland, CC BY 2.5, source
- Mehtab Bagh: :en:Aks khandelwal ( talk | contribs ), Public domain, source
- Singapore Botanic Gardens: Calvin teo, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vanda falcata: snotch, CC BY 2.0, source
- Fairylake Botanical Garden: Huangdan2060, CC BY 4.0, source
- Henarathgoda Botanical Garden: L Manju, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- National Botanic Garden of Bangladesh: Shahnoor Habib Munmun, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Beach naupaka: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Bengal trumpet: Don McCulley, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Arabian jasmine: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lalbagh Botanical Garden: Chidambara, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Nanjing Botanical Garden, Memorial Sun Yat-Sen: Px820 at Japanese Wikipedia 撮影者：権作 http://px820.onmitsu.jp, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kolam: mckaysavage, CC BY 2.0, source
- Bahá'í Terraces: Arash Hashemi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Zakir Husain Rose Garden: Harvinder Chandigarh, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rose and Jasmine Garden: Bakhtawar.hasan, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Burnham Park: Hariboneagle927, Public domain, source
- Jurong Lake Gardens: Brhb25, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Gardens by the Bay: Shiny Things ., CC BY 2.0, source
- Ixora: Wilfredor, CC0, source
- Kadamba: This work was made by Tushar Hossain and released under the license(s), CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Odori Park: redlegsfan21, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Shirui lily: Tabish Qureshi Tabish q, CC BY-SA 3.0, source