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| Three poems with plants and pupils: Mimosa pudica Studying symbiosis in the forests of Singapore On finding the ant plant Dischidia in an abandoned plantation forest in Singapore |
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| "From God to Man" -- description of palm wine -- a product of the African Oil Palm. Photos by M. Frazier. Sierra Leone, 1977. My student is climbing a palm for collection of the "wine." His family tapped palmwine for their livelihood. I was a Peace Corps Volunteer (on the right). Notice the "ear of corn" icon on the cap my brothers brought when they came to visit. |
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| Visiting a palm oil mill in Malaysia during a seventh grade excursion from the Singapore American School. Great expanses of primeval and diverse forests in Southeast Asia have been replaced by the Oil Palm from Africa and the Para rubber from the Amazon basin. See the webcast Rubber Jungle. |
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| Photo: Eating durian in Missouri on a cold, wet November evening! David Quammen's account of the king of fruits and Corner's Durian Theory. See Corner quote on Southeast Asian Forests above. Alfred Russel Wallace on bamboo and durian. A.R. Wallace's The Malay Archipelgo online--See Chapter on Singapore and Malacca in Volume 1. Volume 2. |
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| Hevea brasiliensis in Malaysia: A neotropical plant in Southeast Asia. |
| Artocarpus altilis in Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico: A plant from the Malay Archipelago in the Neotropics. |