Parrot’s Beak’s (Gmelina Philipensis) is a tropical shrub native to the Philippines. The long pendulous flowers are comprised of yellow blossoms which emerge at the end of a tube-like structure of overlapping bracts. (Source: Flowering Plants of Thailand - A Field guide by Patrick D. McMakin). I first encountered this unusual looking plant in Barbados at the Flower Forest (picture 1-2 top left). During my travels to Thailand, I also stumbled across Gmelina Philipensis (where it is known locally as Ching-chai) in a unique shrine-like setting in the gardens of one the small guesthouses near Chiang Dao (picture top right).

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