Kelili - Lepisanthes alata

Synonyms : Otophora alata

Common names : Krumbi, Kelili, Engkilili ( Sarawak ) ; Kelelek, Gegelek ( Johor ) ; Ceri Terengganu, Perupok.

Family : Sapindaceae

Origin : Borneo, Java, the Philippines

Habitat : riverside, lowland forest, clayish soils

Botanical Description :

Annual, small tree.

Foliage : compound, 8-12 pairs leaflets ; leaflet 20-45cm long, ovate-lanceolate.  Glabrous at base, entire margin, pointed tips ; young leaves pinkish-purple, green when mature.

Flowers : monoecious, cluster, scentless; 5 purple-red petals.

Fruits : trigonous-obovoid, pointed tip, 2.5-4cm diameter, mature fruits red to dark red colour, translucent fleshy pulp, seed 1-5.

 

Buah Letup - Physalis angulata

Common names :

Wild gooseberry, ground cherry, bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, cut leaf ground cherry, cutleaf ground cherry, Indian gooseberry, etc

Origin : Tropical America

Distribution : Pan tropical

Habitat : Borders of woods, wasteland, sideways, croplands, fallow land etc. Grows well in moist, nitrate-rich soils  ; prefer full sunlight, but tolerate partial shade.

Botanical Description :

Annual, herbaceous.

Stem – angled, hollow

Leaves – ovate to ovate-oblong ; obtuse, acute or rounded at base ; irregular toothed, 3-15cm long, 2-10cm wide.

Flowers – stalk 5-40cm length, corolla yellowish-green; anthers bluish or violet.

Fruit – orange round berry, 1-1.8cm long ; enclosed in a balloon-like green ( pale brown when dry ) calyx of 5 lobes with small apical opening.

Seeds – disc-shaped to broadly reniform, 1-2mm long, pale yellow

Uses :

Edible fruit – raw or cooked

Young leaves – cooked as a potherb

A Walk Through the Tamu Sarikei 2018

Fruits / Leaves / Roots

Fauna

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黄金果 Abiu

黄金果is known by different regional names in countries of production: Abiu in Brazil; in Trinidad it is the yellow star apple or caimitt ; Colombians know it as the caimo, caimito amarillo or madura verde; in Ecuador it is known as the luma or cauje; in Venezuela as temare; in Portugal as abieiro; and in Ghana as alasa.

Pouteria caimito ( Family : Sapotaceae ), is a tropical fruit tree originated in the Amazonian region of South America. It is a common dooryard tree in the backyards and streets in the city of many Brazilian towns, but it is not usually grown commercially.

The abiu habitats are nearly all tropical. It will thrive in a place that has a year-round warm and moist climate.

It will grow an average of 10 m high, and can grow as high as 35 m under good conditions. The abiu varies a lot in form, size and quality of the fruit. Some have soft and others firm flesh. Some taste bland while others have very nice flavor.  Its fruits shape varies from round to oval, pointed at the distal end. When ripe, it has smooth bright yellow skin and will have one to four ovate seeds. The inside of the fruit is translucent and white. It has a creamy and jelly-like texture.

Renaissance Art - Canestra di frutta

Basket of Fruit ( Italian: Canestra di frutta) (c.1599) is a still life oil painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), which hangs in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library), Milan.

It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge. The basket contains a selection of summer fruit.

Caravaggio's Fruit: A Mirror on Baroque Horticulture

Jules Janick

Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture

Purdue University, West Lafayette Indiana 479076-2010

“ The uppermost fruit is a good-sized, light-red peach¹  (Prunus persica) attached to a stem with wormholes in the leafⁱ resembling damage by oriental fruit moth (Orthosia hibisci).

Beneath it is a single bicolored apple² (Malus pumila), shown from a stem perspective with two insect entry holes, probably codling moth, one of which shows secondary rot at the edge;

one blushed yellow pear³ with insect predations resembling damage by leaf roller (Archips argyospita);

four figs (Ficus carica), two white^4a and two purple^4b—the purple ones dead ripe and splitting along the sides, plus a large fig leaf with a prominent fungal scorch lesion resembling anthracnose (Glomerella cingulata);

and a single unblemished quince⁵ (Cydonia oblonga) with a leafy spur showing fungal spotsⁱⁱ.

There are four clusters of grapes (Vitis vinifera), black^6a, red^6b, golden^6c, and white^6d; the red cluster on the right shows several mummied fruit, while the two clusters on the left each show an overripe berry. There are two grape leaves, one severely desiccated and shriveledⁱⁱⁱ while the other contains spots^iv and evidence of an egg mass. “

Plantation's Manager Bungalow - Hatter's Castle 1923 Carey Island

Carey island was named after Edward Valentine John Carey, an Englishman planter whom  acquired the island from the Sultan Alaedin Sulaiman Shah to start a rubber plantation.   Carey began the plantation under Jugra Land Ltd and Carey Ltd.  The Island was divided into four estates : North, South, West and East. 

There are seven managers’ and engineers’ bungalow on Carey Island.   Hatter’s  Castle was built in 1923 by engineer C.L.Gjorup for himself to live in, with a flat at the top for the General Manager,  Mr James French when he visited. 

All the timber for constructing Hatter’s Castle was cut from the estate as they cleared the jungle, bricks were backed locally, and the furniture was made locally by Chinese craftsmen.  There was a water storage system which collects rain water off the roofs and piping it into sealed underground tanks.

The name of the bungalow was inspired by A.J.Cronin’s novel of the same name.   The ‘Hat’ was the domed roof over the first floor terrace which was removed in the 1950s because the wooden structure was decaying.

Gjorup also built the Club House and the bunds and water gates.  In addition,  Gjorup also built two other estate bungalow in similar style at Sogomana in Perak and Telok Merbau Estate in Selangor

Citrus Scab

Pathogen :

[ fungus ] Elsinoe fawcettii

Symptoms :

Leaf & fruit –  young foliar lesions superficially resemble young citrus canker, may have a slight water soaked margin.  

As pustules develop, the small elevated pink spots become more defined and may form conical depressions nearby.  

When pustules mature, they become warty and crack.  

Scab pustules colour may progress to yellowish brown and eventually to a dirty grey.

Prevention and Control :

Citrus scab can be controlled using resistant cultivars, and by fungicide application.