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National Botanic Gardens Shah Alam (Malay: Taman Botani Negara Shah Alam or TBNSA) is a national botanic garden in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. [1] It is incorporated in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries. With area of 817 hectares, it is the habitat of flora and fauna, also a recreational destination in the Klang Valley. [2]
Cyrtostachys renda, also known by the common names red sealing wax palm and lipstick palm, is a palm that is native to Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia. [9] It is the only species of the genus Cyrtostachys that can be found to the west of the Wallace Line , the faunal boundary separating the biogeographic realms of Asia and ...
Logo of Rimba Ilmu Botanical Gardens. Rimba Ilmu (literally forest of knowledge) is a tropical botanical garden set up by the late Professor W.R. Stanton in 1974 on the campus of the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [1] [2] The garden has over 1,600 species of plants occupying over 80 hectares. [3]
Kaempferia galanga is used as a spice in cooking in Indonesia, where it is called kencur ('cekur' in Malaysia), and especially in Javanese and Balinese cuisines. Beras kencur, which combines dried K. galanga powder with rice flour, is a particularly popular jamu herbal drink. Its leaves are also used in the Malay rice dish, nasi ulam.
Botanical gardens in Malaysia have collections consisting entirely of Malaysia native and endemic species; most have a collection that include plants from around the world. There are botanical gardens and arboreta in all states and territories of Malaysia, most are administered by local governments, some are privately owned.
Willughbeia is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1820.It is native to Southeast Asia with a few species in the Indian Subcontinent. [3]
The tree is cultivated for its wood and edible fruit. The fruit is a fleshy whitish-pinkish to yellowish-pinkish or red berry which is bell shaped, waxy and crisp. Syzygium aqueum is native to tropical Asia and Queensland. [1] The tree requires heavy rainfalls and can survive in tropical habitats, up to 1600m from sea level. [3]
Among the attractions located in the Perdana Botanical Gardens are the deer park, Hibiscus garden, Orchid Garden, Kuala Lumpur Bird Park and Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park. [1] The Bird Park with a land area of over 20.9-acre (8.5 ha) was opened on 15 November 1991, features more than 3,000 birds from more than 200 species of bird and is billed as ...