Strange Treasures around the Monkey Pot Tree
Morning sunshine streams through the foliage of the Monkey Pot tree. Sometime last year, The RIMBA Project took a walk around the UM...
Once a Year When Flowers Bloom
Firmiana malayana at the entrance of Rimba Ilmu's front terrace. Not all flowers bloom in springtime, not all leaves are shed during...
Once There Were Four
Did you know there were once four of these magnificent palms towering over the Faculty of Business and Accountancy? These Talipot Palms...
The Tembusu Tree
The Tembusu (Cytrophyllum fragrans) is a very important tree to our neighbours down south. An old and regal individual in the Singapore...
The Yellow Flame Tree
Many are familiar with the gorgeous Yellow Flame or Batai (Peltophorum pterocarpum). This native tree is fast-growing, which makes it a...
The Angsana Tree
Society ladies of old have a graceful way of swishing around, and the Angsana (Pterocarpus indicus), a regular on Malaysian streets,...
The Rain Tree
Can a person love a tree? RIMBA student volunteer Nor Afiza bt Rahman definitely thinks so, as she describes her favourite Rain Tree:...
The Weird, Wild and Wonderful
Inspired by the tropical beauty of Malaysia, Alfred Russel Wallace (author of The Malay Archipelago) wrote: ‘Should civilised man… bring...
Springtime in UM
At least four tree species are flowering in the University of Malaya, as reported by one of our #RIMBAstalks correspondents, Benjamin...
UM's Very Own Cocoa Tree
by Vanessa Ting Cornering the Ambang Asuhan Jepun is a dense, low-growing tree with two trunks. Not really. If you look carefully, there...
