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Sunday, September 12, 2010

A walk at Prunus trail

Book out from army for the first weekend of my 3 weeks in camp. Since I didn’t get to go into the forest when I am serving reservist (and probably won’t have the luxury of looking at plants if I am out), decided to take a walk at Prunus trail of MacRitchie Reservoir by myself.

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The new visitor centre is very spacious, especially the toilets! There are open air shower heads for a quick sprinkle.

And now, are the plants~ I must admit that I do not recognise most of the plants so any help is appreciated!

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Champereia manillana.

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Syzygium borneense

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Litsea elliptica.

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Parkia speciosa or otherwise knwon as Petai, which yield the edible smelly beans.

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Only know this from the ID tag on the tree. Xanthophyllum vitellinum.

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This small tree look like a Dipterocarp.

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An unknown sapling.

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A very distinctively hairy plant.

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With two protruding structures at the petiole.

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Cool reddish ends of Elaeocarpus petiolatus.

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Another Elaeocarpus which VB suggested to be mastersii.

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Never really notice small plants like this climber till now. Update: Psychotria sp.

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Here are some climbers which looked vaguely familiar but still have no idea what they are.

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Willughbeia sp.

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An opposite arranged climber.

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This nasty looking caterpillar was on the climber featured above.

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Another familiar hairy plant with huge leaves.

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I spotted this pandan look-alike climber on this palm tree. WF said that this is Freycinetia sp., and it is really a climbing species of pandan! Update: Freycinetia sumatrana.

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Here is another view of it.

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Another familiar climber.

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And also a familiar looking sapling.

Gah… All my current knowledge of plants are confined to mangroves and degraded forests. Looks like I have enter to another totally different world in a more mature secondary forest! But it is always great to learn new stuff~

Thanks to WF and VB for their help in IDs.

2 comments:

  1. The 'nasty' looking caterpillar is from Limacodidae (slug caterpillar moths). Looks like it could be a Parasa sp.

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  2. The 'small tree which looks like a Dipterocarp' is Petaling, Ochnastachys amentacea. Sapling is Guioa pubescens, next is a Canarium sp.

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