Trees of the World 2025

Trees of the World is back at the Singapore Botanic Gardens! ✨🎄

Take a stroll around the gardens every evening to admire beautifully‑decorated native trees and celebrate the festive season with your loved ones. 🌟

You can also support important conservation and outreach projects at go.gov.sg/donatetotw2025 💚

🗓️: Now till 4 Jan 2026
⏰: Light up from 7pm daily
📍: Various locations across Singapore Botanic Gardens
🔗: go.gov.sg/sbg-totw2025

The Lesser Mousedeer (Tragulus kanchil) is a tiny dweller of our forest floors. 🦌

Identifiable by its warm reddish-brown coat and three distinct white stripes under its neck, this shy mammal is hard to spot against the leaf litter of the forest floor. It can be seen mostly on its own, feeding on leaves, shoots, fungi and fallen fruit. 🌿🍄

Christmas Wreath Making

Wondering how to make a Christmas wreath to decorate your home? 🎄

Join us for a free festive demonstration at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Learn how to select foliage and craft beautiful wreaths that bring holiday cheer to your home. No registration required – just bring your creative spirit! 🌿🎁

🗓️: Sat, 13 Dec 2025
⏰: 10am - 11am
📍: Green Pavilion, Singapore Botanic Gardens

‘Pressing Plant Matters: Celebrating 150 Years of the Singapore Herbarium’ exhibition

Step into 150 years of botanical history at the Singapore Botanic Gardens and see never-before-seen treasures from our botanical heritage! 🌿

Discover artefacts from former Gardens’ Directors alongside rare specimens from the 1790s, and 500-year-old Renaissance botanical books making their first public debut. 📚

Find out what it's like to be a botanist with interactive activities, such as examining real plant specimens under microscopes!

📅: Now until 1 Nov 2026
⏰: 9am – 6pm daily (closed on every last Thursday of the month)
📍: Botanical Art Gallery, Gallop House No. 7, Gallop Extension, Singapore Botanic Gardens
🔗: go.gov.sg/pressing-plant-matters

Newbie gardening tip: Check your soil! 🪴

Spend a day with Azza, our Community in Bloom (CIB) Senior Manager, as she makes her rounds across community gardens, supporting not just the plants, but the community that keeps them thriving. 🏡✨

This year, we’re celebrating 20 years of CIB and the volunteers that make it all possible. It’s been two decades of sharing the joy of gardening and growing stronger communities. 💚

🌸 Be part of the journey through our Community in Bloom programme or learn more at go.gov.sg/cib20!

One of our largest sea stars, the Knobbly Sea Star (Protoreaster nodosus) can grow up to 35 cm wide – bigger than most of our faces! Each individual is unique, with dark brown knobs arranged differently, like a fingerprint.

These fascinating creatures have a wild feeding trick: they evert their stomachs to digest food outside their bodies, consuming everything from seagrass microbes to dead animals… and even other sea stars! 😲

Singapore Botanic Gardens Discovery Passport

Looking for a special activity to do in the Singapore Botanic Gardens?

Pick up a Discovery Passport from the Visitor Services Counters* and find all 10 ink stamps as you explore the Gardens. Once you’re done, head over to any of the counters to redeem a small keepsake to commemorate your journey! 📖

📅: Now till 4 Jan 2026
⏰: 9am – 5.30pm
📍: Singapore Botanic Gardens (*Available for free at Visitor Services Counters at the Bukit Timah, Gallop, Nassim, Tanglin, and Tyersall entrances)

Trees of the World 2025 is lighting up the Singapore Botanic Gardens till 4 Jan! ✨

Wander through the Gardens every evening to enjoy a glowing trail of beautifully decorated native trees and four festive displays featuring biodiversity from across North America, Asia, South America, and Oceania – a perfect way to soak in the magic of the season. 🌟🌳

Support our conservation and outreach efforts through the Garden City Fund at go.gov.sg/donatetotw2025.

🗓️: Now till 4 Jan 2026
⏰: Light up from 7pm daily
📍: Various locations across Singapore Botanic Gardens
🔗: go.gov.sg/totw-2025

Meet this charming native shrub, the Shoebutton Ardisia (Ardisia elliptica)! With its leathery, elliptic leaves (often reddish when young), clusters of drooping pink flowers, and reddish‑purple berries that turn black when ripe, it’s a true coastal beauty found along our shorelines. 🏖️

Caterpillars of butterflies and moths feed on its leaves, while its berries that resemble black shoe buttons attract birds that help disperse its seeds. 🍒

📸: Tim Utteridge

Punggol Heritage Trail – New Adventure Playground and Backwoods Trail

The Adventure Playground and Backwoods Trail, along the recently opened Punggol Heritage Trail, are now open for families to explore!

Kids can play on swing sets and a wooden structure that resembles the childhood game ‘Pick Up Sticks’, as well as hop along a 'Snakes & Ladders’ footpath. Don’t forget to look out for species native to the Punggol area, like Seashore Ardisia, Island Lychee and the Small-leaved Oil Tree while you’re there!

Work continues on the rest of the Punggol Heritage Trail, which will be fully completed by early 2027. More info at go.gov.sg/punggol-heritage-trail

Have you noticed your rabbit’s ears swiveling toward your voice? 👂🐇

Rabbits can rotate each ear independently up to 270° and hear sounds from opposite directions. Their hearing reaches up to 49,000 Hz, far beyond the human limit of 20,000 Hz.

This amazing ability evolved to detect predators in the wild. At home, it means your bunny is always keeping an ear on the action – even your daily chats!

For more interesting pet facts, check out our AnimalBuzzSG Facebook page!

Step into the secret world of the Twin-seed (Anaxagorea javanica), where fruity, banana-scented blooms attract sap beetles for a rendezvous.

The flower has special parts called staminodes that provide a sheltered floral chamber for the beetles to feed, mate and linger within. After a period of time, the flower opens up allowing pollen-covered beetles to escape and help in cross-pollination! 🪲

📸: J. Chen