Delicate tropical 'clinger' - what is it!

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  1. robsamui

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    I'm on the tropical island of Samui. In the last few years theres's been a trend in the high-end resorts to go hip with huge areas of blank scrubbed concrete. Someone must have realised that this looks like a building site and so now the fashion is to plant a delightful creeper that makes delicate tiny-leaved trails - really 'Japanese' in feel and very pretty - up the concrete.

    Can anyone identify this? It never seems to flower. 3 pics attached.

    Thanks in advance,

    Rob
     
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    The attachments aren't there Rob................
     
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    Nope I can't see any either :frown:
     
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    hee hee - trying like crazy.
    This has to be the slowest site ever - sorry! Try again . . .
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    still trying - 3 images chopped down to 60K max . . .
    psgr frozen . .
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    still trying - 3 images chopped down to 60K max . . .
    psgr frozen . .
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    Hi Rob,

    we've literally as of a few hours ago updated the site to a new forum software and so were currently in the process of being re-indexed by a ton of search engine bots which is slowing us down, if you can't get the attachments up then see if you can use an external host such as photobucket and then just use the bbcode option and paste them in to link to the photo's
     
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    try again with bitmaps . . .
     
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      Rob - you had to do this on the day that they changed the forum host didn't you!

      Do you use Photobucket or similar?

      Or you could zip them up and email them to me and I'll try using my P/bucket acct.
       
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      Ah well then. Takes me back to the days of phone lines and 14.4 k modems.
      Will do.
      Ta for the info.
      (Snappy admin!)
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      (yeah - copied the wrong link! Oops! Soz.)
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      There we are I've fixed it up a bit and found the larger images for you :dbgrtmb: hopefully now someone can tell you what it is:lunapic 130165696578242 5:
       
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      The story is . . .

      I live on the tropical island Of Koh Samui in Thailand. For the last several years it's been trendy for resorts to be all minimal with scrubbed concrete wall surfaces. But someone must have finally realised that this looks like a building site. So now everywhere has got hold of these exquisite little plants.

      They are delightful but impossible to buy locally (tho they develop plantlets at the roots) and so I've been creeping round at night (I'm a pensioner and beyond suspicion, honest), pulling up the roots and nicking all the plantlets.

      Ahem. Did I just say that?

      Still love to know what they are!

      R
       
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