Betau Valley

Betau Valley

Monday 6 September 2010

Flora and fauna at Gunung Brinchang

Less than a week after my initial 'reconnaissance' trip to Gunung Brinchang, I was at it again at the onset of the school holidays...


Most spectacular of the Malayan birdwings - the Rajah Brooke Birdwing (male). I rescued this one found on the tarmac in the early morning and the butterfly resurrected with the first heat of daylight.


Flowers of a heath forest tree.


Patch of moss.


Nice flowers abundant along the trail.


Rhododendron spp.


Young leaf of a fern.


Strange bright purple berries.


Black Ganoderma fungus.


Mountain senduduks crawling up a trunk (probably Medinella spp.)


One with flowers...


An epiphyte, orchid belonging to the genus Eria.


Another orchid...


The Pitcher plant, Nepenthes spp.






Wild Arum Lily.



Melanocyma faunula faunula.

Fungi in the shades.


Common roadside plant in the highlands.


Yellow Buttercups - an import?


The Blue Admiral, Kaniska canace.


Same butterfly, different place...


Jewel orchid, Ludisia spp. maybe?


Dendrobium spp.


Wild raspberries (flowers).


Mossy patch...








Impatiens riddleyii.


Hairy begonias, texture and form akin to the Iron Cross Begonia, Begonia masoniana.




Rhododendron lowii or scortechinii?






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