Dillenia tree

Dillenia sp.
Originally uploaded by _Cheng Puay.

Spotted this plant in flower during my trip to west coast park yesterday. Nice white petals with a red bulls eye guiding all the pollinators to it.

Hmm... interesting mix of colors here. The white petals usually mean that the flower is insect pollinated as insects see with UV and white petals show vivid hues under UV light. But red are usually used for attracting pollinators using visible light to see.

So could this flower be a 'generalist' of sorts? Using both UV to attract insects and visible light to attract small birds (sun birds possibly)?

You can see Lekowala's nice picture of an another member of the Dillenia genus at Bend it like the Simpoh Ayer