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Bambusa tulda

carterr — 2013-05-22 17:09:36 UTC

It often grows as an undergrowth scattered or in patches in the forest.

Durian

carterr — 2013-05-22 17:10:59 UTC

It grows in lowland rainforests, and is native to Borneo, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Jambu

carterr — 2013-05-22 17:11:43 UTC

Jambu grows naturally from southern India to eastern Malaya.

Kapok Tree

carterr — 2013-05-22 17:13:14 UTC

The straight trunks are cylindrical, smooth and gray in color, and can reach a diameter of 9 feet.

Mangrove Forests

carterr — 2013-05-22 17:50:32 UTC

Mangroves are woody, specialized types of trees of the tropics that can live on the edge, where rainforests meet oceans.

Strangler Figs

carterr — 2013-05-22 17:51:59 UTC

Figs are one of the most important plant species of a rainforest ecosystem.

Tualang

carterr — 2013-05-22 17:53:58 UTC

The tualang tree is a majestic emergent tree of the Southeast Asia rainforests best know for the disk shaped honeycombs which hang from its horizontal branches.

Asian Flora

carterr — 2013-05-22 17:57:57 UTC

Asian plants, which include ferns, gymnosperms, and flowering vascular plants, make up 40 percent of the earth’s plant species.

Temperate Mixed Forests

carterr — 2013-05-22 19:52:55 UTC

Second in floral richness, East Asia’s temperate mixed forests contain thirty thousand to thirty- five thousand plant species.

Tropical Rain/Dry Mixed Forests

carterr — 2013-05-22 19:54:39 UTC

The third-richest region, tropical rain/dryforests is found in SouthAsia, which reaches from the Philippines in the east to Pakistan in the west, and from the Himalayas in the north to Thailand in the south