Hi everyone,

The souvenir of visiting the "Best goats and sheep" farm in Bentong is certainly unforgetable. Each activities has its own memory. Now I would like to share the memorable moment during forest excursion. As we concern on the compaction of the soil due to stepping, we explored the forest from the logging track only.

Longging Track

The first half round of this year, we experienced the extreme hot and dry weather. This unusual climate caused fire for many forests in Malaysia including the reserved forest nearby the farm. This situation was once a lot worried by Mr. Razak and Madam Intan (the owner of the farm) due to the fire where almost reached the farm area.

Burned forest 1


Burned forest 2

Despite the burning portion of the forest is still freshly seen, the forest is undoubtedly nice. One of the amazing discoveries we found on the very next of logging track was Dipterocarpus grandiflorus where the tree is still fruiting. As the result, we found fruits on the logging track and many of them already germinated. According to IUCN, Dipterocarpus grandiflurusspecies is stated as vulnerable.

Dipterocarpus grandiflorus tree grows on the side of logging track


Fruits of Dipterocarpus grandiflorus on its tree


Mr. Razak, Madan Intan, and She Mei are gathering the fruits of Dipterocarpus grandiflorus


Jean Weber with collected fruits of Dipterocarpus grandiflorus

Locally, this species is called as Keruing Belimbing due to its prominent ridges. Dipterocarpus grandiflurusis among the biggest fruit within the Dipterocarpaceae. It is characterized as having five prominent winged ridges which running to the base, wing 22 cm x 3.5 cm or more. The young plant can be easily distinguished by the dark purple-brown color of the young opening leaves.

Top view of fruit of Dipterocarpus grandiflorus


Lateral view of fruit of Dipterocarpus garndiflorus


Lateral view of dried fruit of Dipetrocarpus grandiflorus


Dark purple brown leaf of Dipterocarpus grandiflorus plantlet