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It is a small to medium-size tree (unlike most other Gnetum species, which are lianas), growing to 15–22 metres tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 40 cm (16 in). [5] In addition to the tree form, there are also varieties that includes shrub forms (brunonianum, griffithii, and tenerum). [ 4 ]
A mushroom farm is involved in the business of growing fungi. The word is also commonly used to refer to the practice of cultivation of fungi by animals such as leafcutter ants, termites, ambrosia beetles, and marsh periwinkles.
Eurycoma longifolia (commonly called tongkat ali, Malaysian ginseng or long jack) [2] is a flowering plant in the family Simaroubaceae.It is native to Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam) and Indonesia (the islands of Borneo and Sumatra), [3] but has also been found in the Philippines. [4]
Arenga pinnata (syn. Arenga saccharifera) is an economically important feather palm native to tropical Asia, from eastern India east to Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the east. [1] Common names include sugar palm , areng palm (also aren palm or arengga palm ), black sugar palm , and kaong palm , among other names.
Fruit and foliage Ripe fruits (Philippines) The appearance of the fruit can be regarded as an intermediate shape between the jackfruit and the breadfruit. It is round to oblong, 15–20 cm long and 13 cm broad, and weighing about 1 kg. The thick rind is covered with soft, broad spines. They become hard and brittle as the fruit matures.
Saribus rotundifolius is a hermaphrodite fan palm. [2] The palm is evergreen, erect, and only grows having a single trunk ('solitary').It grows at a height ranging from 15 to 25 metres, [11] exceptionally up to 45 metres tall, [2] and thickness of 15 to 25 cm diameter at breast height.
Lignosus rhinocerus, commonly known as tiger milk mushroom, belongs to family Polyporaceae in the division Basidiomycota. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This fungus is geographically distributed only in tropical rainforests in the region of South China , Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Papua New Guinea .
Parkia speciosa, the bitter bean, twisted cluster bean, sator bean, stink bean, or petai is a plant of the genus Parkia in the family Fabaceae. It bears long, flat edible beans with bright green seeds the size and shape of plump almonds which have a rather peculiar smell, similar to, but stronger than that of the shiitake mushroom, due to ...