Trees of Borneo

CONIFERS and CASUARINAS
Branched tree with leaves modified to needles or scales (Agathis with normal leaves), no colorful flowers, fruits are cones.

BAMBOOS
Multistemmed, erect (except a few climbing forms), branches from internodes, flowers rare.

PALMS and BANANAS
Unbranched erect (or climbing) stem with large leaves and flower stands from centre of crown.

BROADLEAVED TREES
Branched shrub or tree with ordinary leaves.

Corypha umbraculifera (Talipot palm)
These feather-like branches are so magnificent, like the crowning of a tree before it dies.

Corypha umbraculifera (Talipot palm) is native to southern India (Malabar Coast) and Sri Lanka.

This one of the largest palms in the world can reached heights of up to 25 m, with stems up to 1.3 m in diameter.
This fan palm (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae) has large palmate leaves up to 5 m in diameter, with a petiole up to 4 m, and 100 over leaflets.
Talipot palm bears the largest inflorescence of any plant, 6-8 m long, consisting of one to several million small flowers borne on a branched stalk that forms at the top of the trunk.
The Talipot palm is monocarpic, flowering only once, when it is 30 to 80 years old. It takes about a year for the fruit to mature, producing thousands of round yellow-green fruit 3-4 cm diameter, containing a single seed.
The plant dies after fruiting.

Acacia auriculiformis, is a fast-growing tree. A crooked, gnarly tree in the family Fabaceae.
It is native to Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.
Height grows up to 30m tall.

A tall tree in Tawau Hills Park of Tawau
One treasure asset of Tawau Hills Park is that the park is home to a few tallest tropical trees in the world.
It is rather difficult to see the canopy of these tall trees amid the thick tropical forest as tree top is often hidden from sight by the foliage of surrounding trees.
The image above is one of the tall trees in the Botanical Garden of Tawau Hills Park. The Botanical Garden is within 5 minutes walk from park office with a fully maintained path.

Ficus religiosa 菩提樹 species native to India that had naturalized in Borneo Island... beginning in Tawau and Lahad Datu.

Big Trees around Tawau Town
What environmentalists planted in Tawau and how the trees are protected. Here are some of the big trees. More about Trees in the environment of Tawau Town

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