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The number of trees in the world, according to a 2015 estimate, is 3.04 trillion, of which 1.39 trillion (46%) are in the tropics or sub-tropics, 0.61 trillion (20%) in the temperate zones, and 0.74 trillion (24%) in the coniferous boreal forests. The estimate is about eight times higher than previous estimates, and is based on tree densities ...
Mitragyna speciosa is a tropical evergreen tree of the Rubiaceae family (coffee family) native to Southeast Asia. [3] It is indigenous to Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Papua New Guinea, [4] where its leaves, known as "kratom" have been used in herbal medicine since at least the 19th century. [5]
This is a list of the oldest-known trees, as reported in reliable sources. Definitions of what constitutes an individual tree vary. Definitions of what constitutes an individual tree vary. In addition, tree ages are derived from a variety of sources, including documented "tree-ring" ( dendrochronological ) count core samples, and from estimates.
A full synthesis of ancient Greek pharmacology was compiled in De Materia Medica c. 60 AD by Pedanius Dioscorides (c. 40-90 AD) who was a Greek physician with the Roman army. This work proved to be the definitive text on medicinal herbs, both oriental and occidental, for fifteen hundred years until the dawn of the European Renaissance being ...
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to lowland southern China, and through Indonesia as far as Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo, east of which lies the Wallace line, the realm boundary named after Alfred Russel Wallace which separates Indomalaya from Australasia.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1980: Bandish: Pintar Pintar Bodoh: Arizal: Warkop: Comedy: Ratapan Anak Tiri 2: Drama: 1981: A Balinese Trance Seance: Dalan lingkaran cinta
During 1926, there were two movie theatres, the Oriental and the Elita, in Bandung. [9] [10] The first movie theatre in Jakarta was the Alhamra Theatre, which opened in 1931. [11] Indonesian cinema began dominating most movie theaters in big cities in the 1980s and started to compete in international film festivals.
Indonesia: American film nominated for Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, featured the 1883 eruption of the volcano on the island of Krakatoa. Paradise Road: 1997: 1939–1945: Indonesia: About the event of World War II on the island of Sumatra. The Merdeka Trilogy: Merah Putih, Darah Garuda, and Hati Merdeka: 2009–11: 1945–1949: Indonesia