Picture Word Cards Picture Word Engage Young Children with 30 Hand Painted Picture Word Cards of Flora and Fauna That Can Be Found in Singapore

Picture Word Cards Picture Word Engage young children with 30 hand painted picture word cards of flora and fauna that can be found in Singapore. The back of each card contains key information on the plant or animal, including fun facts that will capture the interest of the children. Cards Plantain Squirrel Group: (Callosciurus notatus) A Pre-school Educational Resource Mammals Size: Head–body length: 22 cm Description: The upper parts of its on Singapore, a City in a Garden, Tail length: 21 cm body and tail are olive brown. Its belly and the Habitat: insides of its limbs are Forests, gardens, parks reddish brown. There are and its Biodiversity black and white stripes on Fun Facts! Where to find it: the sides of its body. It has Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, a long and bushy tail, and The Plantain Squirrel has some similarities with birds Central Catchment Nature eyes that are ringed in Reserve, Singapore Botanic white. – its chirping calls are Gardens, Sungei Buloh Wetland often mistaken for bird Reserve, most gardens and parks calls and it even creates Ecological roles: a spherical nest of twigs It feeds on both plants and and leaves, which is animals, and is preyed Plantain Squirrel upon by snakes and birds. known as a drey. Vanda Miss Joaquim (Papilionanthe Miss Joaquim) Fauna featured: Description: Its flowers are about 6 cm tall Growth Form: and 5 cm wide. The flowers Climber have three sepals and two petals that range from whitish in colour • Asian Toad to light pink. Orchid flowers also Size: have a special petal known as Indeterminate (climbers a 'lip'. The lip of the Vanda Miss • Blue Sprite Damselfly can grow as tall as their Joaquim is shaped like an angel, support) is bright pink in the middle, and has an orange centre withV Habitat: reddish-purple spots. anda Miss Joaquim • Brahminy Kite Gardens Where to find it: • Collared Kingfisher Singapore Botanic Gardens • Common Parasol Dragonfly Fun Facts! Our national flower originated from the garden of Agnes Joaquim, after • Forest Fighting Fish whom it was named. It is • Four-lined Tree Frog used as an ornamental plant. • Leopard Cat • Long-tailed Macaque • Malayan Colugo Flora featured: • Malayan Water Monitor • Bird’s Nest Fern • Olive-backed Sunbird • Casuarina • Oriental Pied Hornbill • Cattail • Painted Jezebel • Fish Poison Tree • Plantain Squirrel • Gelam • Smooth-coated Otter • Meranti • Sunda Pangolin • Swamp Fern • Swamp Forest Crab • Tembusu • White-bellied Sea Eagle • Tiger Orchid • Yellow-spotted Mudskipper • Vanda Miss Joaquim Bird’s Nest Fern Birdʼs Nest Fern (Asplenium nidus) Growth Form: Ecological roles: Epiphyte It grows in the form of a rosette which looks like a bird's nest. Size: Fallen leaves from the host tree Maximum height: 1. 2 m are caught in the 'nest', and help to provide nutrients for the Bird's Nest Fern as they Habitat: break down. Lowland forests Where to find it: Admiralty Park, Pulau Ubin, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, urban areas throughout Singapore Fun Facts! Description: This fern grows on the The young fronds can be branches of host trees. Its eaten. Its fronds are known leaves are long and wide. to have been used for It has large roots that are easing labour pains and a covered with many brown lotion made from the fronds hairs. Light brown spores is sometimes used for develop on the lower treating fever. surface of the fronds. Casuarina Casuarina (Casuarina equisetifolia) Growth Form: Ecological roles: Tree It can improve the condition of the soil and helps to prevent Size: erosion. It commonly grows in Maximum height: 40 m coastal sand dunes. Habitat: Coastal forests, sandy beaches Where to find it: East Coast Park, Pulau Semakau Fun Facts! The wood from this tree is Description: extremely hard and dense, Its leaves are tiny scales and is often used for that surround grey-green, constructing stilts, poles and needle-like twigs. Its fruits fences in coastal areas. are small, winged nuts that People like to plant Casuarina are contained in cone-like trees in windy areas because clusters that split open they act as a windbreak. when they are ripe. It is also considered one of the best firewood species in the world. Cattail Cattail (Typha angustifolia) Growth Form: Ecological roles: Herb It can remove toxic elements from water. Dense clusters of Size: cattails provide cover for Maximum height: 3 m wetland animals, and the leaves provide nesting material for some species of wetland Habitat: birds. Freshwater wetlands Where to find it: Edges of reservoirs and other freshwater bodies Fun Facts! Description: The part that looks like a It has thick, narrow and ‘cattail’ is a cluster of sword-shaped leaves. thousands of flowers. Cattails Flowering stalks grow up to are common here, and in 2 m tall. After pollination, many other parts of the the slightest disturbance world, because their seeds will send the seeds floating are easily distributed over through the air to be long distances. The dispersed by the wind. underground stems and pollen can be dried and made into flour. Fish Poison Tree Fish Poison Tree (Barringtonia asiatica) Growth Form: Ecological roles: Tree It is the food plant for some moth larvae. Fruit bats and Size: night-flying moths are attracted Maximum height: 30 m to its flowers and act as pollinators. Habitat: Coastal forests Where to find it: Sungei Buloh Wetland Fun Facts! Reserve, Singapore Botanic While they contain toxic Gardens, Labrador Park, substances, the fruit and sandy coasts and seashores seeds are edible when cooked. Fishermen use them Description: as fish poison to disable fish It has a round crown with so they float to the water large, shiny, dark green surface. The bark, leaves leaves. Its flowers appear and fruits have been fluffy because they have used by some to treat many white, pink-tipped backaches and sore joints. stamens. Its fruit is shaped Oil can be extracted from like a lantern and turns the seeds and used as brown from green as it fuel for lanterns. matures. Gelam Gelam (Melaleuca cajuputi) Growth Form: Ecological roles: Tree It is a known food plant for the caterpillar of the Atlas Moth. Its Size: flowers are often visited by the Maximum Height: 40 m Olive-backed Sunbird and Crimson Sunbird. Habitat: Coastal forests Fun Facts! Where to find it: Kampong Glam was named Pasir Ris Park, Pulau Ubin after this tree, likely due to its abundance in that area in the Description: past. The leaves are used to Its trunk is spongy to the distill cajeputi oil for its varied touch with white, flaky medicinal uses, such as in the bark. It has greyish-green treatment of earaches, leaves with a leathery headaches, toothaches, texture and tiny flowers burns, wounds and skin with white, greenish-white diseases. The hard timber is or cream petals. Its fruits popularly used in carving, can be cup shaped or cabinet work, boat building round, and contain many and as firewood. Flakes of tiny seeds. the bark are used for insulation and stuffing pillows. Meranti Meranti (Shorea bracteolata) Growth Form: Ecological roles: Tree It grows to a great height and emerges from above the Size: canopy of rainforests. Maximum height: 50 m Habitat: Primary rainforests Where to find it: Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore Botanic Gardens Description: Its leaves are oval or Fun Facts! egg shaped. Its fruit is a The timber from this tree is nut that is green and egg suitable for making furniture. shaped, and has three When ripe, the fruits drop long wings and two from the tree and spin like shorter wings. It has small helicopters in the air as cream or yellow flowers they are carried away by the that occur in bunches of wind to other places where up to five. they will grow into big trees. Swamp Fern Swamp Fern (Acrostichum aureum) Growth Form: Ecological roles: Herb It grows on the landward side of mangrove forests, and its Size: roots help to prevent erosion Maximum height: 3 m by holding the soil in place. Habitat: Mangrove forests Where to find it: Pulau Ubin, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, coastal areas Description: Its large fronds are divided into smaller segments. They are dark Fun Facts! green and have a length The young fronds can be of between 1 m and 4 m. consumed as vegetables. The fronds can be shredded or crushed and applied to wounds or ulcers. Tembusu Tembusu (Cyrtophyllum fragrans) Growth Form: Ecological roles: Tree Its flowers are visited by skipper butterflies and moths, and its Size: fruits and seeds are eaten and Maximum height: 55 m dispersed by bats and birds. Habitat: Primary and secondary forests Where to find it: Central Catchment Nature Fun Facts! Reserve, Pulau Ubin, Several Tembusu trees in Singapore Botanic Gardens, Singapore are Heritage other gardens and parks Trees, including the one featured on the back of Description: Singapore's five-dollar note. Its bark is deeply fissured, That particular tree is located while its roots are buttress- at the Singapore Botanic like. Its leaves have pointed Gardens. Strong, long-lasting tips. Its creamy-white flowers and resistant to termites, its are fragrant, and occur in timber is used to make clusters. Its fruits are roundish chopping boards, berries that turn orange or bridges and boats. red from green. Tiger Orchid Tiger Orchid (Grammatophyllum speciosum) Growth Form: They are pale greenish yellow Epiphyte with orange brown spots and they turn darker as they mature. Size: Each flower is about 10 cm Maximum height: 2 m wide. The flower stalks can carry around 40 flowers, and the fruits are pear-shaped. The leaves are Habitat: thin and strap-like, with pointed Lowland forests tips.

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