Tourists flocking to Bentong for its ginger, food and other delights

Tourists from Seremban waiting for the bus after visiting the Bentong wet market recently. 

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THE Bentong Wet Market was a hive of activity on a Sunday morning recently.

While the scene was nothing out of the ordinary for a wet market, the one thing that struck me was that there were many tourists.

I found out later that most of them were retirees, and on a one-day tour of Bentong and surrounding areas.

The itinerary was sight-seeing, meals and shopping. It seems such tours are becoming popular over the weekends.

The tourists I met at the Bentong wet market were from two groups, from Seremban. One was an exercise group and the other members from the Chi Hwa School old boys and girls association.

Seremban and Bentong is about 150km apart.

The traders in the market were visibly happy to see the tourists and one trader told me that business was brisk over the weekends — thanks to the tourists.

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They mostly go for the Bentong ginger and Bentong soy sauce.

There are about 20 stalls in the market selling the ginger!

The traders might not have studied branding but I guess the quality of the product (Bentong ginger) speaks for itself.

One trader likened the Bentong ginger to a poor man’s ginseng, seeing its many health benefits. In fact, a few of my friends also gave their thumbs up for Bentong ginger.

One of my colleagues from Petaling Jaya said her mother had sourced the ginger for her to take during her confinement.

But they were surprised over the “ginger power” to draw tourists to Bentong!

Well, I think it (ginger power) is a case of a good product being introduced to more people via a concerted manner.

The promotion started in earnest about two years ago in a project called “Maju Bentong” by Bentong MP Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai to introduce his constituency to more people in the country and outside.

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It came with a website and pamphlets outlining the attractions of Bentong, from places of interest, history to food like Bentong ginger, Bentong soy sauce and Bentong ice cream.

My colleague Lay Phon and I bought the ginger powder after reading the top 10 health benefit claims of Bentong ginger displayed at a stall in the market.

However, we did not have time to try the Bentong ice cream during an assignment there recently.

In fact, I was surprised that there were so many interesting things to see and food to try in Bentong.

“Maju Bentong” is sort of a catalyst for more exposure for the constituency.

My teenage nephew, who heard me talking about Bentong ginger, told me that Bentong was featured in a travel or food programme over television recently.

Some of the tourists at Bentong market also said they got to know Bentong from articles about it or watching television programmes.

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I guess the horror movie “Seventh” which was filmed in Bentong and screened recently is yet another good bit of publicity for Bentong.

A tour guide I met at the market said there was an increasing demand for day-trips to Bentong and surrounding areas like Raub and Bukit Tinggi recently.

Depending on the package, she said the price for a day trip ranged from RM80 to RM130 per person, and the price was inclusive of lunch and dinner. The difference in pricing she added, would depend on the type of meals.

Apart from boosting business in smaller towns, tourism is also a catalyst for development in the long run.

The people in semi rural areas are proud that there are actually many people who admire who they are and what they have — the old town charm.

Recently, Liow announced that Bentong was ranked fourth in the Happiness Index, among all the local authorities in the country.

I spent almost two hours in the market and found the people there very friendly. For instance, two women doing their marketing took time to tell me how to cook a curry

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dish using some raw ingredients which looked like the inner section of a tree trunk.

They must have seen me staring at the tree trunk!

Their gesture speaks volumes of Malaysians who are generally warm and friendly.

For tourists, locals or foreigners alike, the human factor is very important and an integral part of their travelling experience.

With that, I am sure the smaller towns and villages would have an edge over others in tourism development.

There are already many smaller towns and villages which have gained prominence as a tourist destination.

Bentong is a good example, and I look foward to going there on a day trip — as a tourist — with my family and friends.

Oxyeleotris marmorataFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyeleotris_marmorata

Oxyeleotris marmorata

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Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Actinopterygii

Order: Perciformes

Family: Eleotridae

Genus: Oxyeleotris

Species: O. marmorata

Binomial name

Oxyeleotris marmorata(Bleeker, 1852)

Synonyms

Eleotris marmorata Bleeker, 1852

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Bostrichthys marmoratus(Bleeker, 1852)

Gigantogobius jordani Fowler, 1905

Callieleotris platycephalusFowler, 1934

Soon Hock Fish / Marble Goby / 笋壳鱼 (Oxyeleotris Marmorata)https://indomahseer.wordpress.com/products/soon-hock-fish-marble-goby-%E7%AC%8B%E5%A3%B3%E9%B1%BC-oxyeleotris-marmorata/

Soon hock fish / Marble goby fish / 笋壳鱼 (Oxyeleotris Marmorata) is one of premium freshwater fish type who have large demand among Asian countries. This kind of fish have white opaque colored meat and have a very delicate taste. Marble goby fish in local market known as “ikan malas” or translated in English as “lazy fish” because the fish characteristics is very inactive and their only movement made is to catch foods in front of their mouth..

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DESCRIPTION

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Marble Goby fish is one of premium freshwater fish used mainly for consumption purposes, the fish have very delicate meat texture, juicy taste, and have a high albumin content. Our stock of Marble Goby fish are sourced from wild catch for big size and semi wild captive for medium size, semi-wild means that the fish captivated and grows in their natural habitats inside the cage pond we have in the captivity site, this method can preserve the meat taste of the fish much better than pond captive fish who often have muddy smell in their flesh.

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SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATIONKingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Actinopterygii

Order: Perciformes

Family: Eleotridae

Genus: Oxyeleotris

Species: O. marmorata

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OTHER COMMON NAMES : Soon Hock Fish

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Marble Goby Fish Ketutu Fish Marble Sleeper Fish Sleeper Goby Sand Goby 笋壳鱼 Pla Bu Sai (Thailand) Ca Bong Twong (Vietnam)

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Hoya lacunosahttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya_lacunosa

Hoya lacunosa

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Hoya lacunosa , inflorescence

systemProcedure: Enzianartige (Gentianales)family : Dog poison plants (Apocynaceae)Subfamily : Asclepiadoideae(Asclepiadoideae)Tribus : Marsdenieaegenus : Wax flowers ( Hoya )Art : Hoya lacunosa

Scientific nameHoya lacunosa

FLOWER   Hoya lacunosa is a species of the genus of wax flowers ( Hoya ) of the subfamily of asclepiadoideae (Asclepiadoideae).

Table of Contents  [ Hide ] 

1 features 2 Geographical distribution and habitat 3 taxonomy 4 documents

o 4.1 literature o 4.2 References

5 External links

Features [ edit   ]

Hoya lacunosa is a climbing plant with thin, bare stems. The Nodien train roots to anchor. The leaves have 4 mm long, thick, almost bare stems. The leaf blades are ovate to lanceolate and fleshy shiny. The base is round or narrowly rounded, tapering the outer end long. They measure 3 to 7 inches in length and 2.5 to 3 cm in width. The Vein of the leaf blade should be higher.

The hanging inflorescence is 1- to 30-flowered (16 to 20-flowered [1] ) and a convex curvature. The stalk of the inflorescence is stiff and to 5 cm long. The flowers are button-shaped with a diameter of about 8 mm. The rigid, curved flower stalks are 0.4 to 2.5 cm long. The sepals are very small and dull. The corolla is whitish, inside thickly covered with long, fluffy hair. The corolla lobes are reflexed triangular and strong. The corona is yellowish white with a dark yellow center. The staminal Nebenkronzipfel are elliptical in shape, with a blunt, slightly ascending outer projection and a pointed, ascending inner extension. The stylus head is conical. The extensions of the stamens are very thin and häutchenartig. The oblong-falcate pollinia possess thick, goblet-shaped and broad

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winged Caudiculae. The flowers are very fragrant and remain open for about 5 days. They produce little or no nectar. The long-spindle follicles are 5 to 6 cm long and 0.5 cm thick.

Geographic distribution and habitat [ edit   ]

The species has a very large area of distribution, the India, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sumatra) ranges.

Taxonomy [ Edit   ]

The species was in 1826 by Carl Ludwig Blume in his "Bijdragen tot de Flora van Nederlandsch Indie" on S.1063 first time, but not ready [2] . Only in 1848 was a flower also figure in his work "Rumphia ..." [3] and 1849 in the factory "Museum Botanicum Lugduno-Batavum" [4] . Synonyms are Hoya suaveolens Miquel and Hoya lacunosa var. Pallidiflora Hook. f. and probably Hoya nabawanensisKloppenburg & Wiberg in 2002 [5] .

Documents [ Edit   ]

Literature [ Edit   ]

Focke Albers, Ulli Meve (ed.): Succulent Encyclopedia Volume 3 Asclepiadaceae (milkweed family) . Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3982-0 (p.154).

Dale Kloppenburg and Ann Wayman: The World of Hoyas - a pictorial guide. A revised version. 248 S., Orca Publishing Company, Central Point, Oregon, 2007 ISBN 0-9630489-4-5 (p.136 / 7)

Anders Wennström and Katarina Stenman: . The Genus Hoya - Species and Cultivation 144 S., Botanova, Umeå 2008 ISBN 978-91-633-0477-4 (p.79)

Surisa Somadee and Jens Kühne: Hoya 200 different wax flowers. 96 S., Formosa-Verlag, Witten 2011 ISBN 978-3-934733-08-4(p.58)

References [ edit   ]

1. Jumping Up ↑  Somadee & Kühne (2011: p.58)2. Jumping Up ↑   Online at biodiversitylibrary.org 3. Jumping Up ↑  Blume, Karl Ludwig: Rumphia, sive, Commentationes Botanicae Imprimis de

plantis Indiae Orientalis: tum tum penitus incognitis quae in libris rheedii, Rumphii, Roxburghii, Wallichii aliorum recensentur / scripsit CL Blume cognomine Rumphius.Tomus quartus. Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden, The Netherlands) in 1848 online at biodiversitylibrary.org - Figure (Taf.184) ordescription (p.30, as Otostemma lacunosa )

4. Jumping Up ↑  Carl Ludwig Blume: Museum botanicum Lugduno-Batavum, sive, Stirpium exoticarum novarum vel minus cognitarum ex vivis aut siccis brevis expositio et descriptio. T.1, Lugduni-Batavorum (Leiden, Netherlands), EJ Brill, 1849- (56) online at biodiversitylibrary.org description (p.59) and Figure XI

5. Jumping Up ↑   www.simones-hoyas.de - site of Simone Merdon-Bennack

External links [ edit   ]

 Commons:   Hoya lacunosa   - collection of images, videos and audio files

www.simones-hoyas.de - site of Simone Merdon-Bennack www.myhoyas.com

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HoyaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya

For other uses, see Hoya (disambiguation).

Hoya

Hoya lanceolata ssp. bella

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae

(unranked): Angiosperms

(unranked): Eudicots

(unranked): Asterids

Order: Gentianales

Family: Apocynaceae

Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae

Genus: Hoya

R.Br.

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Species

See text.

Synonyms

Madangia

Micholitzia

Hoya is an Asclepiad genus of 200–300 species of tropical plants in the family Apocynaceae(Dogbane). Most are native to Asia including India, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Việt Nam, andIndonesia, There is a great diversity of species in the Philippines, and species in Polynesia,New Guinea, and Australia.

Common names for this genus are waxplant, waxvine, waxflower or simply hoya. This genus was named by botanist Robert Brown, in honour of his friend, botanist Thomas Hoy.[1]

Contents  [hide] 

1 Description

o 1.1 Leaves

o 1.2 Flowers

2 Selected species

3 Cultivation and uses

4 References

o 4.1 Bibliography

5 External links

Description[edit]

Hoya carnosa

Hoyas are evergreen perennial creepers or vines or rarely, shrubs. They often grow epiphytically on trees; some grow terrestrially, or occasionally in rocky areas. They climb by twining, and with the employment of adventitious roots. Larger species grow 1–18 m (3–59 ft), or more, with suitable support in trees. They have simple entire leaves, arranged in an opposite pattern, that are typically succulent. Leaves may exhibit a variety of forms, and may be smooth, felted or hairy; veination may be prominent or not, and many species have leaf surfaces flecked with irregular small silvery spots.

The flowers appear in axillary umbellate clusters at the tip of peduncles. Hoya peduncles are commonly referred to as spurs. In most species these spurs are perennial and are rarely shed. Each flowering cycle increases the length of the spur, and in the larger species can eventually reach

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27 cm (11 in) or more. Flowers vary in size from 3 mm (0.1 in) (Hoya bilobata Schltr.) to over 95 mm (4 in) (in H. lauterbachii K. Schuman) in diameter. Flower form is typically star-shaped, with five thick, waxy, triangular petals, topped with another star-shaped structure, the corona. Colours on most species range from white to pink; there are species that exhibit yellow to orange, dark reds to near-black, and there are green flowers. Many are sweetly scented. and most produce abundant nectar.

Pollinators include moths, flies, and ants. Pollination is poorly understood, but plants left outdoors in temperate regions do sometimes produce seed, indicating pollination by local insects.

Seeds are borne in twin pods, actually follicles, are generally light, and are dispersed by the wind by means of a small tuft of silky fluff. Germination is rapid, but viability is not long.

At least some species exhibit Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM), including H. carnosa.

Several species exhibit adaptations for mutualism with ants by providing modified leaves for domatia ("homes"), much as in the related genus Dischidia; H. imbricata has leaves that form a concave cup over the tree trunk it climbs up to shelter ants, and H. darwinii has arrangements of bullate leaves on its stems to form shelters.

Leaves[edit]Hoya leaves vary in size, texture, color and venation. In size, leaves range from as small as 5 mm in length and 2 to 4 mm in width (Hoya engleriana Hosseus) to as large as 25 cm by 35 cm. (Hoya latifolia G. Don). Hoya coriacea Blume, has been reported have leaves as long as two feet in length. There are hoyas with almost perfectly round leaves and others with linear leaves (Hoya linearisWall. ex. D. Don and Hoya teretifolia Griff. ex Hook. f.). One popular species, Hoya shepherdii Short ex Hook. has leaves that resemble string beans hanging in bunches from their stalks. Hoya linearis Wall. ex D. Don is covered with fine downy hair and resembles masses of Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides) hanging from trees in its native habitat. Some Hoya leaves are smooth and shiny; some are covered with hairs. Some Hoya leaves appear to be veinless while others have very conspicuous veins of a lighter or darker colour than the rest of the leaves as in H. cinnomomifolia. Some have leaves that are mottled with speckles of silvery white (Hoya carnosa R. Br., Hoya pubicalyx). Some hoyas have leaves that are thin and translucent (Hoya coriacea Blume); some are so thick and succulent that they look more like crassulas than hoyas (Hoya australis ssp. rupicola, oramicola and saniaefrom Australia and Hoya pachyclada from Thailand). One of the most succulent, Hoya kerrii Craib, has obcordate (inverse heart-shaped) leaves, with the cleft away from the stem.

Flowers[edit]

Hoya mindorensis, (Photo by Phillip Tan, Singapore)

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Hoya flowers are all shaped like five pointed stars. Some of the species' petals reflex so far that the flowers appear to be round or ball-like. They grow in umbels, or in some species singly. Umbels can reach impressive proportions in some species, and many species have individual flowers well over three inches in diameter (H. imperialis Lindl., H. lauterbachii K. Schuman). H. coriacea Blume has been known to have as many as 70 in an inflorescence, each individual measuring nearly 2 cm in diameter with the umbels over 30 cm in breadth. The single-flowered Hoya pauciflora Wight makes up for its paucity by its flower size of nearly an inch and a half in diameter produced at any time of year. Textures of flower surfaces may be glabrous and shiny, to matte, to finely haired, and some being quite hairy. One of the two clones of Hoya mindorensis Schltr., from the Philippines, comes very close to being a true red. Blue, purples, and violets do not appear to be represented in the genusHoya.

Selected species[edit]

Species listed here are those given in Albers & Meve (2002) and accepted by both The Plant List and Tropicos.

Hoya anulata  – Australia (Queensland), Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea Hoya archboldiana  – Indonesia, Papua New Guinea Hoya australis  – Australia, Fiji, Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga

Hoya australis ssp. australis – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), Samoa, Vanuatu Hoya australis ssp. oramicola – Australia (Northern Territory) Hoya australis ssp. rupicola – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory) Hoya australis ssp. sanae Australia (Queensland) Hoya australis ssp. tenuipes – Australia (Queensland), Fiji, Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua

New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga

Hoya benguetensis  – Philippines Hoya bilobata  – Philippines Hoya bordenii  – Philippines Hoya calycina  – Indonesia, Papua New Guinea

Hoya calycina ssp. calycina Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea Hoya calycina ssp. glabrifolia – Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea

Hoya carnosa  – S. China, India, Japan, Taiwan, Australia (Queensland), Fiji Hoya caudata  – Malaysia (Malacca), S. Thailand Hoya cinnamomifolia  – Indonesia (Java) Hoya coriacea  – Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand Hoya crassicaulis  – Philippines Hoya cumingiana  – Philippines Hoya diptera  – Fiji (Viti Levu, Taviuni) Hoya diversifolia  – Cambodia, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sumatra), Laos, Malaysia,

Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, S. Thailand, S. Vietnam Hoya eitapensis  – Papua New Guinea Hoya elliptica  – Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore Hoya engleriana  – Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam Hoya erythrostemma  – Malaysia, Myanmar, S. Thailand Hoya finlaysonii  – Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra), Malaysia, Myanmar, S. Thailand Hoya fuscomarginata  – Only known from cultivation. Hoya globulosa  – India (Sikkim), Nepal

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Hoya heuschkeliana  – Philippines (Luzon) Hoya hypolasia  – Papua New Guinea Hoya imbricata  – Indonesia (Sulawesi), Philippines Hoya imperialis  Philippines, Malaysia Hoya inconspicua  – Australia (Queensland), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands Hoya kentiana  – Philippines Hoya kerrii  – China, Cambodia, Indonesia (Java), Laos, NW. Thailand, S. Vietnam Hoya lacunosa  – India, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia (Borneo, Java,

Sumatra) Hoya lanceolata  – India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar

Hoya lanceolata ssp. bella – India, Nepal, S. Myanmar Hoya lanceolata ssp. lanceolata – Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal

Hoya latifolia  – Myanmar, Malaysia, S. Thailand, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sumatra) Hoya limoniaca  – New Caledonia Hoya linearis  – China (Yunnan), India (Sikkim), Nepal Hoya longifolia  – Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand Hoya macgillivrayi  – Australia (Queensland) Hoya macrophylla  – Indonesia (Borneo, Java) Hoya magnifica  – Papua New Guinea Hoya megalaster  – Papua New Guinea Hoya meliflua  – Philippines Hoya meredithii  – Malaysia (Borneo) Hoya mindorensis  – Philippines Hoya multiflora  – China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand,

Vietnam Hoya nicholsoniae  – Australia (Queensland), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands Hoya nummularioides  – Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam Hoya obovata  – India, Indonesia, Thailand, Fiji Hoya obscura  – Philippines Hoya pachyclada  – Thailand Hoya parviflora  – India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand Hoya parvifolia  – Indonesia (Sumatra) Hoya pauciflora  – India (Malabar, Kerala), Sri Lanka Hoya pottsii  – China Hoya pubicalyx  – Philippines Hoya purpureo-fusca  – Indonesia (Java) Hoya retusa  – India (Assam, Bombay Presidency), Indonesia (Sulawesi) Hoya revoluta  – Cambodia, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sumatra), Laos, Malaysia

(Malacca), S. Thailand, Vietnam Hoya serpens  – Australia (Queensland), India (E. Himalaya), Nepal Hoya shepherdii  – SW. China, India Hoya siamica  – Cambodia, India, Laos, NW. Thailand, Vietnam Hoya thailandica  – Thailand (Chang Mai) Hoya thomsonii  – China (Xizang), India (Assam) Hoya tsangii  – China, Philippines (Mindanao) Hoya verticillata  – Brunei, Cambodia, E. India, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sulawesi,

Sumatra), Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore Hoya vitellina  – Indonesia (Java)

Cultivation and uses[edit]

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Many species of Hoya are popular houseplants in temperate areas (especially H. carnosa), grown for their attractive foliage and strongly scented flowers. Numerous cultivars have been selected for different leaf forms or flower colours. Hoyas grow well indoors, preferring bright light, but will tolerate fairly low light levels, although they may not flower without bright light. Hoyas commonly sold in nurseries as houseplants include cultivars of H. carnosa (Krimson Queen, Hindu Rope − compacta), H. pubicalyx (often mislabelled as H. carnosa or H. purpurea-fusca), and H. kerrii. Hoyas are easy to propagate, and are commonly sold as cuttings, either rooted or unrooted, or as a potted plant.

Hoya carnosa has been shown in recent studies at the University of Georgia to be an excellent remover of pollutants in the indoor environment.

Various cultures have used hoyas medicinally, especially Polynesian cultures. Some are toxic to livestock and sheep poisonings in Australia are reported.

Several Hoya species and cultivars are excellent terrarium plants.

Hoya campanulata

 

Hoya cinnamomifolia

 

Hoya imperialis

 

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Hoya parasitica

 

Hoya pottsii

References[edit]

1. Jump up ̂  Robert Brown (1810). Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805 per oras utriusque insulae collegit et descripsit Robertus Brown; insertis passim aliis speciebus auctori hucusque cognitis, seu evulgatis, seu ineditis, praaesertim Banksianis, in primo itinere navarchi Cook detectis 1. London: Richard Taylor and Biodiversity Heritage Library. p. 459.

Bibliography[edit]

Albers, F. & Meve, U., eds. (2002), Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Asclepiadaceae, Springer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-41964-8

Christopher, J.T. & Holtum, J.A.M. (1996), "Patterns of Carbon Partitioning in Leaves of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Species during Deacidification", Plant Physiology 112 (1): 393–399, doi:10.1104/pp.112.1.393, PMC 157961, PMID 12226397

Endress, Mary E. & Bruyns, Peter V. (2000), "A revised classification of the Apocynaceae s.l.", The Botanical Review 66 (1): 1–56, doi:10.1007/BF02857781

Kloppenburg, Dale & Wayman, Ann (2005), The World of Hoyas : a book of pictures (revised ed.), Central Point, OR: Orca Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9630489-4-3

Liede-Schumann, S. (2006). The Genera of Asclepiadoideae, Secamonoideae and Periplocoideae (Apocynaceae): Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification, and Information Retrieval Version: 21 September 2000.

Phillips, Roger (1997). The Random House Book of Indoor and Greenhouse Plants (Vol. 2). New York: Random House, Incorporated. ISBN 0375750282.

Trimen, Henry (1888). Hortus Zeylanicus; A Classified List of the Plants, Both Native and Exotic, Growing in the Royal Botanic Gardens. P.R. Deniya. ISBN 9781236067777.

Yang, Dong Sik; Pennisi, Svoboda V.; Son, Ki-Cheol & Kays, Stanley J. (2009), "Screening Indoor Plants for Volatile Organic Pollutant Removal Efficiency", HortScience 44 (5): 1377–1381, retrieved 2011-11-30

Zachos, Ellen (1997), "Practical Uses of Various Hoya Species"

External links[edit]

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Chinese Plant Names | Family List | Sapindaceae   | Pometia Pometia pinnata J. R. et G. Forst.番龙眼Description from Flora of ChinaIrina tomentosa Blume; Pometia pinnata f. tomentosa (Blume) M. Jacobs; P. tomentosa (Blume) Teijsmann & Binnendijk.Trees, large, ca. 20 m tall, to 50 m tall. Crown large, broad, with evident buttress roots; branches grooved, sometimes hirsute. Leaves rather large, with petiole to 1.5 m, axis and leaflets subglabrous to tomentose; leaflets dense, 5-9 pairs, sometimes to 15 pairs, subopposite; petiolules short, inflated; blades: first pair orbicular, small, base cordate, stipulelike; others oblong or upper ones nearly cuneate, 15-40 × 5-10 cm, margin regularly serrate, apex acute or acuminate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary; rachis and branches strong, straight, 30-50 cm, pilosulose. Pedicels ca. 6 mm, base jointed. Sepals ca. 1 mm, pilosulose. Petals obovate-triangular, ca. 2 × 2 mm. Stamens ca. 5 mm. Fruit shiny, ellipsoid or sometimes subglobose, ca. 3 × 2 cm, glabrous.

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This species is used for its timber.Taiwan, Yunnan [India (Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands), Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; Pacific islands (Fiji, Samoa, Tonga)].

CRYSTAL’ FRUIT (MATOA)By Admin On 7 January 2013 In Exotic Fruitshttp://bombasticborneo.com/2013/01/crystal-fruit/

The first time we came across this fruit was at Pak Awang’s orchard in Biawak, Lundu.  An Indonesian friend told us this fruit was called ‘matoa’ meaning crystal and that it was native to Iran Jaya.  Lately we have also come across fruit vendors at the 3rd Mile Market in Kuching selling this fruit too.  But surprisingly it did not taste anywhere near Pak Awang’s.

Thick yellow flesh

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Crystal fruit

Compare with lime

Compare with longan

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Green matoa

Crystal “Matoa” tree

Local Name: Kasai, Matoa, DawaBotanical Name: Pometia pinnataFamily : SapindaceaeMatoa is a tropical fruit mainly from Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Philippines, East Indonesia, Papua and the Pacific Islands. It is not a very common fruit found elsewhere.

The fruit is much bigger than longan & has a hard shell.  It is green when immature and will turn purplish red, green, dull brown or almost black, depending on the various varieties.  The yellowish white pulp is also much thicker, sweeter & the texture is chewy. It has a single seed which looks like a type of nuts. The seed is edible too and it is usually consumed roasted or boiled.

Related link :o http://fruitspecies.blogspot.com/2011/11/fijian-longan.htmlo http://muherda.blogspot.com/2011/03/matoa-pometia-pinnata-buah-dengan-aroma.html

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