Each flower is about five centimeters wide by six centimeters tall. The petals are twisted 180 degrees so that their backs face towards the front. Petals and dorsal sepal are pink with shades of violet. The Lip is broad with fan-shaped mid lobe and colored rosy violet with a bright orange yellow throat which is spotted dark purple. The Singapore Zoological Garden is one of the few open zoos in the world.
Animals roam freely in specially landscaped surroundings.
The 28 hectares of garden house more than 2,000 animals, representing 250 spieces of mammals, birds and reptiles. Among the Malay endangered spieces on display are the Komodo Dragons, Malayan Tapirs, Sumatran Tigers and the Golden-Lion Tamarins. The Zoo has the world s largest social colony of Orang Utans. It has a special enclosure which displays rare animals on loan such as the white Tigers, the Giant Pandas, the Garden Monkeys and the Snow Leopards. Three new exhibits were opened in 1991, the underwater viewing exhibit for Sealion and Penguins, Primate Kingdom - one hectare exhibit which houses more than 11 colorful spices of monkeys, and the 3 hectare play park children world.