The west coast of southern Peninsular Malaysia

[kuching]

Last location is a clearwater stream where a species of aquatic carnivorous plant (Utricularia uliginosa) grows abundantly there. My "jaw dropped" when I saw a school of chocolate gourami swam together in the stream. Chocolate gourami is usually live in acidic blackwater stream.....but now we realized that those fish from the blackwater also can live well in the clearwater!!!


The jungle stream:







Close-up of Utricularia uliginosa:





The tiny flower of Utricularia uliginosa:









Herman wanted to venture deep into the jungle but Lim stopped him. Lim told us that he was stung by killer wasps in this spot, few years ago. He said; few minutes after he was stung by the wasps, he went to get his motor bike but passed out later. Luckily a stranger (pass by motorist) sent him to a nearby hospital when he fainted at the roadside......


After packing our staff, Herman sent me off at Sepang airport to catch the last flight back to Borneo.

The north-south highway:





THE END.

[MrTree]

my first chocolate was caught in clear water too.

byu the way, that hybrid crypt, is it the sp kota tinggi?

[marle]

wow, i wish singapore has such terrains for me to explore!

[kuching]

my first chocolate was caught in clear water too.

byu the way, that hybrid crypt, is it the sp kota tinggi?

Yes, it's sp. kota tinggi. It's a hybrid of x purpurea. X purpurea is already a hybrid, so that sp. kota tinggi cross again with something.

I hope Niel Jacobsen will describe that sp. in his new book.

[kuching]

wow, i wish singapore has such terrains for me to explore!

Johor is so near to S'pore. U can go there & come back within a day.