Images Dated 2011 June

542. View of Matang, Borneo

An Epiphyte (Ficus) twined around one of the trees in the foreground. These stranglers often survive alter their victims (the trees upon which they germinated and commenced life having rotted away), standing like gigantic lattice-work shafts, crowned

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Borneo, Epiphyte, Froeground, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Matang, Painting, Tree, Twined

530. The Tapang-Tree, Sarawak, Borneo

The smooth cylindrical trunks of this tree (Koompassia excelsa, Taub.) often rise to a height of 100 feet without a branch, yet the Dyaks climb them in quest of the honeycomb that the bees hang on the branches. They climb these trees at night, buildi

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Borneo, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Sarawak, Tapang Tree