Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Forests' worth

by Eugene Pek, 28 October 2008, UTAR Sg Long

Malaysia houses one of the world's oldest tropical rainforests. And within these forests, many herbs and medicinal plants can be found, namely the wild ginger, pepper, wild berries are some of them.

Trekking through the Jim Thompson Trail at Cameron Highlands and the Pangkor Laut virgin forest allowed me to observe many types of wild orchids, pepper leaves, special ant ferns (unlike the green ferns we know, ant ferns are hard black blocks). 

These rainforests supply many medicinal plants which are priceless!!!

Pix taken in Pangkor Laut virgin forest, Oct 2008

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