Plants World

Rambutan and Pulasan

Rambutan and pulasan are very well known tropical fruit, although pulasan not as popular as rambutan. Both of them almost look alike, red in colour, round, with white pulp, juicy, taste sweet and contain single seed. The easiest way to differentiate them is the texture of the fruit, which is rambutan is hairy while pulasan with short dull torns like lychee. Other differences are pulasan peel is thicker than rambutan peel and pulasan taste sweeter than rambutan. But rambutan more popular than pulasan because it widely cultivated. Rambutan derived its name from Malay word 'rambut' which mean hair. While pulasan derived its name also from Malay word 'pulas' which mean twist. That is the trick how to peel off the thick pulasan peel.

left pulasan, right rambutan

Both of them in the same family, Sapindaceae and also share same genus.
Rambutan : Nephelium lappaceum L.
Pulasan : Nephelium ramboutan-ake (Labill.) Leenh. Syn: Nephelium mutabile Blume
Both Origin : Southeast Asia

Pulasan

Rambutan

Herbs garden in PSN

I have made a short visit to Pusat Sains Negara last June..they has a small scale herbs garden gather several common medicinal plants.


Garcinia atroviridis (Asam gelugor)
Order :Malpighiales
Famili:Clusiaceae


Tinospora crispa (Putarwali)
Order:Ranunculales
Famili:Menispemaceae


Cananga odorata (Kenanga)
Order:Magnoliales
Famili:Anonaceae


Centella asiatica (Pegaga)
Order:Apiales
Famili:Mackinlayaceae


Coleus amboinicus
Order:Lamiales
Famili:Lamiaceae


Kaempferia galangga (Cekur)
Order:Zingiberales
Famili:Zingiberaceae

To members of the Team

I have discovered a much better way to blog with photos in Flickr. Here is how.

When yo go to Flickr, click on allsizes, and copy the code given at the bottom. Then in your blog, just paste it and the photos and the link to flickr is there. I did in the Dendron postings

Dendron et cetera

I left a few notes in the Dendron. Go and read. Make sure you sms other members of the class in systematics and diversity to read it as well. After Hari Raya we will have a quiz

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