Trees of Borneo

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.

More about Botanical Garden in Tawau Hills Park

Murdering of a tree by nature
It is a terrible sight to witness how a beautiful Red Sandawood Tree being kidnapped, strangled to dead then processed by a kidnaper Strangler fig tree (Ficus tree)
http:// The red bean tree of Quarter No: 117

1- in front Vocational College, Tawau
2- in the children playground of Taman BDC

	Tabebuia pentaphylla (Tabebuia rosea) 紅花風鈴木
	Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Several hundred species Native to East Asia
	IDENTIFIED Pink flower of Borneo from tree. Taman Daya Maju Jalan Air Panas 榮欣園 atropha integerrima, Euphorbiaceae, rose-flowered jatropha. Ornamental shrub from Cuba with showy red flowers.
	UNIDENTIFIED Pink flower of Borneo from tree. Taman Daya Maju Jalan Air Panas 榮欣園
	Lagerstroemia speciosa (Purple) 大花紫薇（学名：Lagerstroemia speciosa），又名洋紫薇
	Caesalpinia pulcherrima rosea Peacock flower native to the tropics and subtropics of the Americas. widespread cultivation
	UNIDENTIFIED Pink flower of Borneo from tree.
	UNIDENTIFIED Pink flower of Borneo from tree.
	Genus Bougainvillea Bougainvillea spectabilis 叶子花 B. spectabilis
	Allamanda cathartica - Yellow 軟枝黃蟬 Allamanda blanchetii - Pink 紫蟬花
	Lorong Daya Maju Taman Daya Maju Jalan Air Panas 榮欣園
	Erythrina cristo-galli Coral Tree 雞冠刺桐 Native to South America Bright red flowers
	Albizia saman (Rain Tree) ~~Albizia julibrissin~~ 雨樹
	Genus Capsicum
	Morinda citrifolia 檄樹 Cenkudu in Malay Also known as noni, Indian mulberry, and a variety of other names in various regions, is a small evergreen tree or shrub that originated from Indonesia and spread to the Pacific Basin, Philippines, Japan, China, and Australia.
	Pterocarpus indicus 紫檀 Burmese Rosewood Native to southeastern Asia. It is extinct possibly in Peninsular Malaysia.
	African mahogany 非洲楝 (學名 Khaya senegalensis)
	Peltophorum pterocarpum
	Cassia fistula 豬腸豆 (學名 Cassia fistula L.)
	Senna siamea 鐵刀木（學名：Senna siamea)
	Spathodea campanulata P. Beauv 火焰樹 (African Tulip tree, Flame of the forest)
	1. Aceraceae 槭樹科
	2. Alangiaceae
	3. Anisophylleaceae
	4. Araucariaceae
	5. Bignoniaceae
	6. Burseraceae
	7. Capparaceae
	8. Celastraceae
	9. Chrysobalanaceae
	10. Clethraceae
	11. Connaraceae
	12. Cornaceae
	13. Datiscaceae
	14. Goodeniaceae
	15. Hypericaceae
	16. Illiciaceae
	17. Juglandaceae
	18. Monimiaceae
	19. Nyssaceae
	20. Ochnaceae
	21. Olacaceae
	22. Oxalidaceae
	23. Pittosporaceae
	24. Rhamnaceae
	25. Rhizophoraceae
	26. Rutaceae
	27. Simaroubaceae
	28. Sonneratiaceae
	29. Staphyleaceae
	30. Styracaceae
	31. Trigoniaceae

1. Aceraceae
2. Alangiaceae
3. Anisophylleaceae
4. Araucariaceae
5. Bignoniaceae
6. Burseraceae
7. Capparaceae
8. Celastraceae
9. Chrysobalanaceae
10. Clethraceae
11. Connaraceae
12. Cornaceae
13. Datiscaceae
14. Goodeniaceae
15. Hypericaceae
16. Illiciaceae
17. Juglandaceae
18. Monimiaceae
19. Nyssaceae
20. Ochnaceae
21. Olacaceae
22. Oxalidaceae
23. Pittosporaceae
24. Rhamnaceae
25. Rhizophoraceae
26. Rutaceae
27. Simaroubaceae
28. Sonneratiaceae
29. Staphyleaceae
30. Styracaceae
31. Trigoniaceae

A stretch of one kilometer of fully grown trees were chainsaw down for a project of "UPGRADING and LANDSCAPING"

Albizia saman (Rain Tree)合歡樹（雨樹）

This is one of the most beautiful rain tree in Sabah. In Kubota Camp.
Albizia saman (Rain Tree) was introduced by the British to Sabah and Sarawak before WWII as a shade tree and ornamental,
By now these rain trees are age between 50 to 100 years. Some being cut down unfortunately, but most remain growing into beautiful big trees in town and cities.
KUBOTA 2018-03-07 WED 14:50

AFTER
2017-08-19 14:30 JALAN ST PATRICK
SMALL WORK
After 12 years, what supposed to be "Upgrading and Landscaping of Jalan St. Patrick" actually turned out to be "Landscaping the road side in front Teck Guan Company".
There is no upgrading to the one kilometer long road. No landscaping on the opposite side of the road and other section of the road.

Slow torture to a tree by human
This is well grown mango tree in a driving school compound in Sabah. Someone deliberately want to kill this young tree by burning at it trunk. Before burning, the tree bark at the main trunk also deliberately been cut and removed.
The purpose of killing this tree is unknown. But believed to be related to traditional superstition from Indonesia. Killing a tree may has something similar as sacrifice a hen, or a black cat or a goat to please the evil spirit in return for divine protection.
Certain Indonesian who believe in ANTU lives in trees will start "slow-killing" that tree when they do not feel comfortable to see it every day.
The destruction include Cutting and removal of tree bark follow with Burning
While there are many NGO preventing cruelty to cats, dogs and animals, there is no NGO in preventing cruelty to trees such as this dying mango tree. Someone should start to organize one
2012-12-09 09:12 JALAN HILLTOP

Flowering Palm
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.
Nature’s Biggest Bouquet : http://wongfookyee.blogspot.com/

	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.