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"Locust" comes from the Latin locusta, meaning both "locust" (the insect) and "lobster".By analogy with a Levantine use of the Greek word for the insect, akris, for the pods of the carob tree, which supposedly resembled it, the pod-bearing North American tree started to be called "locust" in the 1630s.
In Kelantan, Peninsular Malaysia, a similar figure is set up in the local iteration of the performance known as the pohon beringin ("banyan"). [3] [4] The beringin is often displayed in the beginning and the end of the performance symbolizing "a world loaded with lives...in the water, on the land and in the air".
fruit. Eucalyptus pellita, commonly known as the large-fruited red mahogany, [2] is a species of medium to tall tree that is endemic to north-eastern Queensland.It has rough, fibrous or flaky bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped to egg-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and cup-shaped to conical fruit.
Fruits. Gmelina arborea grows naturally throughout India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and in southern provinces of China. It is found at altitudes from sea level to 1,500 metres (5,000 ft). [1]
Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical hardwood tree species in the family Lamiaceae.It is a large, deciduous tree that occurs in mixed hardwood forests. Tectona grandis has small, fragrant white flowers arranged in dense clusters at the end of the branches.
Lithocarpus sp. - MHNT Lithocarpus sp. - MHNT Lithocarpus is a genus in the beech family, Fagaceae.Trees in this genus are commonly known as the stone oaks and differ from Quercus primarily because they produce insect-pollinated flowers on erect spikes and the female flowers have short styles with punctate stigmas.
Ficus arnottiana, commonly known as the Indian rock fig, is a species of fig tree, native to India.. Indian rock fig is a tree which is commonly mistaken for peepal (Ficus religiosa). [1]