Flora – Flora and Fauna of Tropical Asia

4 July 2014 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 1 tag

The tropical world is filled with incredible plants, some quite astonishing in shape, colour, size and behaviour. One of the ...

8 March 2014 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 2 tags

For any amateur botanist who has travelled around the tropics, it becomes abundantly clear that the vast majority of ornamentals ...

13 October 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 3 tags

One of the more unusual fruits one often comes across while travelling through tropical Asia is the dragon fruit (Hylocereus ...

5 October 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 2 tags

When a friend of mine suggested a weekend trip to Chike mountain (赤科山) in southeastern Taiwan’s Hualien county to check ...

30 September 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 2 tags

I came across this spectacular flowering shrub during one of my cycling trips around Taitung in southern Taiwan. Two days ...

17 September 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 2 tags

The Heliconiaceae family of plants is characterised by a large variety of astonishingly beautiful flowers of improbable shapes. The False ...

28 August 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 2 tags

One of the most popular ornamentals cultivated in many gardens around Cambodia is Peacock flower (Caesalpinia pulcherrima). This shrub produces ...

19 August 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 2 tags

In “Exploring for plants”, a 1930 book written by American botanist David G. Fairchild, the author calls the mangosteen (Garcinia ...

17 August 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 2 tags

Another interesting fruit found in many parts of south-east Asia is cempedak (Artocarpus integer). The first time I noticed it ...

7 August 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 2 tags

Continuing on the journey of discovery of exotic fruits here in Cambodia, today I’d like to present salak (Salacca zalacca). ...