flowers in Ayuttaya

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These are the flowers they use for garlands, in both purple and white. The garland-ready fluted spiral is less than a centimeter in length; strung end to end they are lovely.
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Just when I thought I must have seen all the kinds of flowers in Thailand, I noticed more and more. The Thai people must have thought me strange as I cycled through town, stopping often to take a picture of "ordinary" flowers.

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This is a banana-tree flower, seen at the Ayuttaya floating market.

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The orange flower in the top picture and this red one are both tree flowers--trees loaded with beautiful blossoms.
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I'm guessing the little yellow part is the actual "flower" and the pink are brachts, similar to our dogwoods. Botanists may comment. This is at the Japanese village, a fascinating memorial of the history of Ayuttaya as an international port city in the 15th century.

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And more lila wadi, here seen in front of the massage school: Boonyakorn school of traditional Thai massage.