The annual Penang International Floral Festival featured thousands of flowers in Bloom at the Penang Botanic Gardens. In addition to the gardens existing 30-odd types of flowers, some 20 flower species are brought from as far as Holland, China, Thailand, and Singapore.

Among the blooms were a crimson anthurium from Holland, a pinkish-red ginger flower, and palm-size yellow and white giant chrysanthemums from China; Others flowers includes haliconia, euphorbia, cymbidium, begonia, gloxinia, lily, leafy bromeliads and nepenthes. ... (more)