Barnacles on a rock at Pulau Tioman.

Name:
Height: (didn't have my ruler, unfortunately)
Leaves: Spread out from a center point, flat, ends with a point
Reproduction:
Flowers: No (subject to change)
Terrain: Sandy (subject to change)
Temperate: Tropical

Mulu trip report

I've just recently completed my trip report. You must be thinking that, "What? You finished it a few months after the actual trip?! Why did it take so long?!"

The truth is that I had a writer's block right at the end, simple!

Here a link to the document if you want to read, no pictures though.
UPDATE 9/5/2011: Pictures are added now.

Name:
Height: 2 meters
Genre: Bush
Flowers: Yes

Count the parasites on this plant, how many visible types are there?
There are moss further down where the camera hits it's limit. Notice how there seem to be sections for the parasites? The other trees (same species) also have this type of formation. The positions are probably determined by multiple factors, possibly including altitude and humidity.

Spiny plant

Top picture is the general view of the plant. It looks ordinary until you look up close, then you see the little spines poking out from the stem (lower pic).
Name:
Height: c. 2m
Leaves: Somewhere around 15 cm, looks crumpled up.
Notable stuff: Spines poking out at every axil

Mimosa Pudica

This is Mimosa Pudica: the Sensitive Plant, Touch-me-not, Shy Plant, whatever you call it.
I'm sure most of you readers have seen it before, and played with it too. It closes when you touch it, and it is the only 'mimosa' that does that.
Name: Mimosa Pudica
Height: Spreads near the ground
Reproduction: Seeds
Terrain: (Weed)
Flowers: Yes
Notable facts: The leaves closes when touched

Taken at Royal Mulu Resort in Sarawak. This is one of the cases that the topic is not the plant, although it does look interesting. There's a lizard right in the middle, in case you did not notice. It stayed there for some time like a professional model for me and other people. Wouldn't have got the picture if it hadn't stayed there for long.
I got a hunch that it was a defence mechanism involving 'staying motionless until they look away', so I tried a little experiment. I looked away, and sure enough, it was zooming up the tree when I looked back.
Though, it could be that it just wanted to leave at that second, can't be sure.

Mulu

This one is a peculiar plant that I saw in Mulu.

See the way it curls up? And how all the leaves stick outwards? Notice that the leaves form a loop and the lower part of the stem where the leaves above could block out the sun simply lacked leaves? The leaves can receive the maximum amount of sunlight without blocking the other leaves, and it would have less force of gravity to deal with.

This picture is for the plant clinging onto the tree and not the tree that the plant is clinging onto.

Another roadside plant, and I still hope that I can get some help with identification, but I'm not keeping my hopes high.

I suspect that it is a fern with a non-parasitic relationship with the tree, as I remember faintly of seeing this duo some time ago.

I LUV U

If you don't look at it with too much detail, you can see the famous three words that have been used throughout the ages since modern English was invented. Brilliant work of sucker plants, or at least that's what I think it is.

another small flower

Name: (again, I don't really know)

Took a picture of this guy during the 'epic' mission to escort my 'VIP' brother to his friend's house, while machine gunning at rebels who seek to eliminate him. 

Probably by now, you would have noticed the total sarcasm that I had used in the previous sentence, please excuse me for that. This flower showed in the picture above should be a kind of wild weed because I saw many of them at the side of the road yesterday.

I didn't have the ruler with me, but the rough estimate is, like many others, 0.5 cm.

Another type of bunga kertas, taken with my phone in the park near my home.

Bougainvillea (bunga kertas)

Name: Bougainvillea
This guy is actually from America, to think that I thought that it was native to Malaysia.
The actual flowers are the three buds at the middle, while the 'petals' that surrounds it are actually 'bracts'- specialized leaves. These bracts were modified to attract pollinators, according to Wikipedia.
Size of each flower (diameter): 0.5 cm
Its can be quite tall, with the highest that I have seen measuring up to half of the height an adult human. But according to Wikipedia (surprise, surprise), it still has much more growth potential.

Spider Lily

Name: Spider Lily

Distance off the ground: 48 cm

Diameter of flower: 15 cm

Notable stuff: There is nectar right in the middle. I am 51% sure it's consumable since I tried it a few times without incident. But if there is something else inside except for the nectar, it is advisable not to test it. 

haitus

There will be a pause in posting right now due to some work that I will be doing. The deadline's June 30, so if I can't finish it before that, I'll be back; if I finish it, I will still be back.

sketches 3

The flower at the top is called a spider lily. Beside it is a dragonfly. I haven't identify the bird or the other flower on this page.

sketches 2

More sketches. The middle flowers, along with the spiny stems, are from the same plant. It is called Euphorbia Milii. I still haven't got the names of the other two flowers.

Sketches

This is my first page, they aren't very good, but please bear with me.
The fly on the top stopped at my shoe on my first day. Interestingly, it was big enough to see some details while sitting.
The collection of flowers are all of the same species, called the moss rose (portulaca grandiflora). The two spiny structures are the leaves of the moss rose.
The leaf with the spots is from a plant infected with tiny white bugs, staring at it was definitely gross.

Eight-legged guy

This guy's been living with us for two years, most of the time it just stays there. In case you're wondering why the place is cleaner than you would expect, and not full of webs from the two years of residence, my mom cleaned some off time to time.
Name: ?
Front legs to back: 3 cm
Sometimes, they would be remains of its dinners on my desk.

Mostly Plants...and slugs!

This isn't a plant. This means the slug, not the vegetable under it.
Name: Slug (if you somehow know the species, it would be nice if you told me *hint, hint*)
Head to tail: about 1.5 cm

The figures

Now, after my first flowery post, I've realized that I never had any measuring equipment with me before. Therefore, no numbers of any kind to keep track of it's size. So, tomorrow, I'm going to have a ruler with me, and then it's all figures, numbers, and figures.

UGP (unidentified ground plant)

I found this flower beside the path in the park. Make a guess how big this flower is.
Name: (unfortunately, I have no idea)
Looking from a certain angle, this flower looks like an elephant (head only), which is pretty ironic(see below)
Diameter(flower): c. 0.5 cm
Height(plant): c. 2 cm

Equipment

Pencils include B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B and 6B. I use 2B most of the time.

The camera is not in the picture. If it is, this picture won't be here.

the drawings

I tried to take pictures of my drawing book with my camera, but it was harder than I thought, since it is kinda messy.

First post

This blog will be about the plants every where. This blog will contain pictures, sketches, drawings and notes of plants. I am sorry if the archive is small at first, but I ensure you that it will expand. If you have a plant to share that by some reason, I do not have (cool, a grass species in the Arctic Circle!), message me and I'll add it.
Some of the plants are not identified yet (but me, not the botanist community), as some of them are small grasses/weeds that you see by the roads, paths, and in flower pots; but if you somehow recognize that particular grass/weed/flower/tree, I will be happy to accept your identification.