VP Harris greeted in Singapore with orchid named in her honor
OK, I know I'm being superficial, because she's obviously doing a lot of other important things on this trip but I think that's really cool! And what a beautiful orchid!
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Singapore's lovely diversity of orchids.
https://www.nparks.gov.sg/nparksbuzz/issue-30-vol-3-2016/lifestyle/recreation-and-activities/celebrating-singapore-s-native-orchids
with a fly in it.
Excerpt:
Joe and Jill Biden's orchid
The U.S. president Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, also had an orchid named after them when they visited the National Orchid Garden in 2013. Joe Biden was visiting Singapore in his capacity as then-vice president, where he also made a surprise visit to Adam Road Hawker Centre.
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/singapore-orchid-honouring-obamas-vigorous-and-free-flowering-hybrid
https://mothership.sg/2021/08/kamala-harris-orchid/
..."The U.S. president Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, also had an orchid named after them when they visited the National Orchid Garden in 2013.
Joe Biden was visiting Singapore in his capacity as then-vice president, where he also made a surprise visit to Adam Road Hawker Centre.
The naming of orchids, Singapore's national flower, after foreign politicians and dignitaries who visit Singapore is a common practice here.
Other dignitaries who have received this honour include the U.S.' Barrack and Michelle Obama, China's Xi Jinping and Princess Diana.
However, no orchid was named after former president Donald Trump when he visited Singapore for the Trump-Kim Summit in 2018."
SINGAPORE - A large, putrid flower of an exotic plant known as the elephant foot yam, initially found blooming at the foot of a Housing Board block in Sembawang, has been cut down.
Dr Lim Wee Kiak, an MP for Sembawang GRC, said in a Facebook post on Tuesday (June 8) that he was sad to learn that the corpse flower - so-called for the stench it emits - had been removed.
