Showing posts with label tree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tree. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

fungi feasting on old tree trunk

There was this huge pokok payung indonesia  (Hura Crepitans)  on the right side of our house.  I remembered having to sweep and collect old leaves everyday which was very good for compost pile. The tree was chopped down, when the Putrajaya Holdings decided that it had grown too tall and too big for safety reasons.  

A year later, the decaying tree stump plays host to the world of fungi, plants and other living creatures.



 fungi - kulat 1



fungi - kulat 2
new growth

 fungi - kulat 3



 fungi - kulat 4

fungi - kulat 5

 fungi - kulat 6

 fungi - kulat 7

fungi - kulat 8

fungi - kulat 9

fungi - kulat 10

fungi - kulat 11
ulam raja coexists with fungi on old tree trunk
 Fungi has a world of itself.  Since fungi cannot make its food from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide as plants do, they must take in food from other organism. Decaying trees are the most common place to look for fungi.


bangchik and kakdah
Putrajaya Backyard Garden

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Bongor over in Gua Musang, and Cameron Highland

 Gua Musang R&R is a nice stop-over, on the way to the highland. It has everything, restaurants, petrol station, toilet, surau, playground for kids and ample parking lots. Nasi Sup there is wualla! We went up to Cameron Highland the other day, to view at the marvelous vegetable growing there and to pop in at Selvaraja Agro Shop.... No ladies, two cars, all men.

The big Bongor tree at Gua Musang R and R is flowering. I have seen it before in Pahang and Negeri Sembilan. To see it blooming is a real treat. light purple everywhere. Just to be sure, I asked the gardener there, he said YES!!, Its Bongor alright.

bongor flowers

Small insects hovering around. Kelulut i think.

Single bongor flower, among buds
A brief stop at Selvaraja shop was interesting. The shop has everything about agriculture, gardening, farming, agro tech, fertigation, whatever that effectively make land greener. He is the MAN!, able to handle many customers at the same time. There is something in him that puts him as THE man among boys. I saw one customer paying 3 thousands ringgit. Another one paid 2 thousand RM. Every customer was entertained well. We didn't venture too far into Cameron Highland, just a glimpse, to feel the cool weather, the going ons, the farming and the business that wrap everything in dollar notes.

Lojing, Cameron Highland sister was just launched with royal touch

open vegetable farming, very intensive

Rumah Kalis Hujan - where vegetables are grown free from rain

a spot at Kampung Raja

a vegetable outlet

a lady with "any three for RM5"



In the old days, Kelantanese would go up through Tapah. Now the route is much shorter with the completion of Lojing road. Alas, Lojing is too scary with environmental scars. I hope the scars will heal soon, as intensive vegetable farming set in and put green back to the spoiled environment.At the end I brought home "any three veggie for RM5", and a few gadgets for the little garden.


bangchik and kakdah
Tanah Merah

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

New forest in the making.

A secondary forest.
A real forest in the making.






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location: Bangi opposite Warta Supermarket


leave it longer, grandchildren will look these up as jungle and forest.


~bangchik
Putrajaya, Malaysia

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Khaya tree and the bark.

Barks are just like skin to us. As we grow, our skin adjusts itself to the ever increasing content of flesh and bones without cracking. But trees have barks that crack. And the way they crack is their very own signature, trees of the same specie will crack in the same manner. These are Khaya trees planted in rows at Batu Tiga resting area as we enter the Highway towards Kuala Lumpur International Airport. I stopped for a while and angled the camera towards the bark.

Bark is showing records how severe the weather is and the hardship the tree has to endure. I think moss growing on the barks is an indication about east west orientation.

If you find it painful to see the barks for too long, I can understand why....









Khaya trees.


But khaya trees are just changing

to bigger cloths

as they grow larger....

No cause for alarm.

Yes?



Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Hairy fruits and a climber.

Rambutan
is the name of the fruit.









These rambutans are really hairy.
Rambut means hair in Malay Language.
and the man is showing how climbing should be done.
Such an agile man ........ !

Shots in Air Lanas, Kelantan.





Tuesday, May 19, 2009

My favorite tree, Pulai


It was still early in the morning when I took these photos, therefore the long shadows.... The place is on the other side of of our housing area, within one of the many green lungs of Putrajaya. Pulai is an interesting tree, due to the shape of its leaves and the canopy. I really have to find a solitary tree somewhere to snap from all angles. Then I can post them later for clearer view of my favorite tree, PULAI. But for now, these photos are adequate for general appreciation.


Pulai has soft wood and good for carving.


one pulai tree
the one with dark trunk

the surroundings

the long shadows

the leaves

the leaves

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