Souviners:
Textile materials:
Textile materials:
A local buying the beans:
I'm back to Sarawak-Kalimantan border again. This time I am not crossing the border.
In Serikin town of Malaysian Borneo, Indonesian traders come to sell their cheap goods & products to Malaysian every Sunday morning. The local authority allows them to sell their stuff on the street of Serikin, less than 2 km from the border:
You can buy a lot of cheap stuff here, from furniture to food:
A stall selling the curtains:
Stall selling souvenirs & handicraft:
Indonesian souviners:
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Souviners:
Textile materials:
Textile materials:
A local buying the beans:
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Perfume for sale:
An Indonesian & his stall :
Spice for sale:
Limau manis or local type of Mandarin (fruit):
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Later, we visited another market at Kampung Duyoh. The stalls here are opened by Bidayuh people (or, Land Dayak) of Malaysian Borneo.
This stall is selling giant pitcher of a species of pitcher plant, Nepenthes ampullaria. This pitcher is for cooking hill rice (purple coloured rice from Borneo) :
Cooked hill rice with peanuts in a cut opened pitcher (delicious Bidayuh food):
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Pitcher plant for sale: N. ampullaria :
Fern for sale:
No idea what is this plant???
orchids for sale. The rare slipper orchids (not in the picture) also on sale here:
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Sago worms for sale. This worm is edible:
Fruits & plants for sale:
Jewel orchid, Dossinia marmorata, this species is very common in Bau limestone hills:
wild orchids for sale:
Inflorescence of wild orchid (for sale), Pomatocarpa sp. ???
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No idea what species of this orchid:
Phalaenopsis sp. (Most probably is Phalaenopsis pantherina):
The MOST INTERESTING wild orchid (beside slipper orchid) selling here is this Dimorphorchis lowii.....the inflorescence is more than 1 metre long !!!!! Damn long & it got 2 kind of flowers : the upper part is yellow but the lower part of flowers got a lot of red dots:
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does the limau manis taste like those thai oranges used to make orange juice they sell on bangkok streets?
why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
hexazona · crumenatum · Galleria Botanica
Close up (this plant is sell for RM50.00):
Upper part of flowers are yellowish coloured!!!
Lower part of flowers :
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drool, btw next time you come over you can eat your kuching kolo mee here. someone opened a chain and flies in kolo noodles from kuching everyday!
why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
hexazona · crumenatum · Galleria Botanica
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why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
hexazona · crumenatum · Galleria Botanica
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Updating :
Proiphys amboinica from the Maluku of Indonesia. (Amaryllidaceae)
This is Pholidota imbricata; it is related to Coelogyne.
A rare species of wild orchid, Phalaenopsis pantherina.
Dimorphorchis lowii var. lowii. According to a botanist, the different flowers at the base of the inflorescence are sterile but strongly fragrant and act as attractants for the rest of the fertile but odourless flowers.
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Updating:
Phalaenopsis sp.
Coelogyne sp., probably Coelogyne pandurata:
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