Shrub or small tree, 8 of 60 spp in Malaya. This sp endemic, in Perak, Pahang & Selangor. Leaves abruptly narrow from middle to base.
Fr TH 6.2012.
Polyalthia glauca
mempisang paya
Malesia. Rare but widespread, usually in swamp forest. Leaves glaucous below, midrib sunk on upper surface. Fragrant flowers in clusters on tubercles. Polyalthia: many cures. TH 6.2012.
Polyalthia rumphii
mempisang?
W Malesia, all states exc Perlis & Penang. Tree to 20m. Closely related to P. jenkensii. Leaves to 20cm. 1 fr TH 11.09.
Polyalthia stenopetala
One of the largest genera, with over 100 spp. thru old world tropics and centred in SEAsia, 28 spp from Malaya, more to describe. Occur thru Malaya in lowland forests in understory as small trees or shrubs. Leaves glabrous with simple hairs. This sp. common except in Perlis and Penang.
Stelechocarpus cauliflorus
mempisang
Siam, Malaya, Sumatra. W coast & Pahang, rare. Lowland forest. To 15m. Leaf midrib raised above; flowers cluster on trunk or old branches behind leaves. Brown fruit ovoid, dispersed by animals.
Xylopia ferruginea
jangkang bukit
Siam, Borneo, Sumatra. Common all states exc Penang & Perlis. To 25m, fruits numerous, elongate, cylindric, like a string of beads with longitudinal folds when dry. 1 from TH 11/09.
Common to 700m. Edible but acid fruit, can be eaten raw or steamed. Resinous smell of crushed leaf distinguishes it from Eugenia and Mesua.
Buchanania arborescens otak udang tumpul
Common fr. Andamans to Australia on coasts and river banks. Crown conspicuous with cream flowers between April and June. Leaf apex obtuse, rounded or emarginated, young leaves pink. Drupe green to red, green flesh.
Campnosperma squamatum terentang daun kecil
Malesia. Widely distributed from mountains to swamps. Trees to 30m with distinct terminalia branching. Buttresses short, rarely stilt roots. Leaves spiral, short stalk. Flowers yellowish green, drupe green speckled white.
Dracontomelon dao sengkuang
Indo-Malesia, frequent in Malaya by rivers and in forest or planted in villages. Common in north. Similar to sentang except for leaf stalks stouter. Leaves large (12-22″), 5-11 prs leaflets. Up to 30m, deciduous, dense rounded crown. White flowers in hanging panicles.
Mangifera caesia binjai
Malaya, Sumatra. Common in orchards, esp. in Melaka. Flowers palelilac in pink panicles.
Mangifera foetida macang
Siam, Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Indochina. Common in orchards and forests to 600m. To 36m, drupe long 7-10cm, ripening green, yellow, strong smell of turpentine when ripe. Edible. 2 fr TH 11.09.
Mangifera macrocarpa
15 spp in Malaya. Thailand, Cambodia, Malesia. Rare. Lowland forests Kelantan, Trengganu, Perak, Pahang, Malacca & NS. Big tree, to 33m . Leaf stalk 3-6cm, blade long & narrow with long petiole. Drupe 80-12cm, yellow fibrous flesh.
Mangifera magnifica
Common, widely distributed in lowland and hill forests, expect Perlis & Penang. Endemic. To 54m, 3m girth. Leaves closely spirally arranged, blade stiffly leathery (thickest leafed Mangifera in Malaya). Drupe oblong, 11x 7cm when dry, fibrous.
Mangifera pentandra Hook. mempelam bemban
Occasionally in villages, common in Kedah. Very similar to Mangifera indica. Fr TH 6.2012.
Mangifera quadrifi sepam, asam kumbang
To 40m, bark brown fissured, scaly. Flowers greenish white, fragrant. Drupe dark purple when ripe, flesh fibrous, sweet to sour. Cult. in villages, wild throughout Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo.
Parishia insignis surian, sepal
Large buttressed forest trees, Andamans to Borneo. Uncommon. Apparently deciduous, flowers and new leaves together, but this spp, matures its fruits while the crown is bare.
Parishia maingayi surian, sepal
Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines. Perak, Terengganu, Johor, Selangor. Scattered but locally abundant on ridges to 600m. Flowers white in long hairy panicles, fruit brown velvety, with long enlarged calyx wings. 1 fr TH 11.09.
Parishia paucijuga surian, sepal
To 40m, widely distributed Malaya, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo. Genus has white latex, leaves spirally arranged, pinnate w terminal leaflet, yellow flowers w parts in 4s, hairy fruit w 4 winglike enlarged sepals, ‘shuttlecocks’. 1 fr TH 11.09.
Pentaspadon motleyi plong licin
Malesia, Solomon Is. Swampy forest, by streams. Once common here in Sg. Plong. To 36m, 2m girth, thin spreading buttresses. Bark grey, dippled to scaly. Deciduous, then cream fragrant flowers in branched panicles in March and Oct. Young leaves pink. Wood oil treats skin diseases.
Burma to Java, Indo China, China. From Kedah to NS, only west coast, to 15m w/ short buttresses. Lowland forest. Soft dense tomentum under leaf. One genus family in Old World tropics, temperate Asia to Aust. 7spp. in Malaya of 21 total.
Alangium ridleyi ALANGIACEAE mentulang daun lebar
Endemic. All states exc. Kelantan and Johor, big tree to 40m and 2m girth. Flower calyx deeply ridged, petals fleshy if fresh, fruits ovoid with 12 ridges, seeds with white translucent juicy aril.
Hydnocarpus sp. setumpol About 40 species, India to Sulawesi, in Malaya 12 spp. Seeds have curative properties, especially for leprosy.
Pangium edule payang, kepayang Occasional village tree, wild in Selangor, Perak, Pahang. All parts poisonous, but treated seeds can be eaten and cooking oil extracted. Large long stalked leaves spirally arranged to avoid over shadowing others.
With the La Ninya weather this year, we have had constant rain and virtually no rainy season, but a few things in the garden are flowering at the moment.
Alstonia angustiloba, the common pulai tree (left), initiated this feature on current flowering as one of our trees was laden and the fragrance permeated the plaza, but like so many tropical plants the flowers are small, short lived and either white or green. The unusual fragrance lacks the sweetness of more temperate flowers but it punctuates the experience of walking in our tropical garden.
The fragrance of Pulai, Alstonia angustiloba.
A fairly recent acquisition, the creeper Chonomorpha penangensis displays its beautiful tassels of pink flowers.
Commonly known as the coconut orchid, presumably because of the similarity of leaf form, this species flowers freely in full sun, one of the few things in Taman Sari that always provides some colour. This I think is a dwarf hybrid of Spathoglottis aurea.
Dillenia flowers are spectacular, even if never prolific and not long lasting, opening before dawn and dropped by evening.
Gardenia tubifera, with the distinctive scent of the genus, flowers prolifically but for just a week, and by the time I took the photo the tree was well past its best.
The creeper Hoya coriacea flowers regularly and attracts butterflies.
This epiphyte I think is in the Moraceae family, kin to the figs, but if anyone can provide a closer ID I would be happy to hear about it.
This Alpinia zerumbet was sourced from the Sungai Buloh Leprosaureum and is flowering for the first time.
Australian visual artist Anthony Pelchen spent three months at Rimbun Dahan on an Asialink residency in 2010. During his stay he contributed works to the 2010 Art for Nature exhibition, and helped to produce the Melaka Art & Performance Festival 2010. In 2013 he presented the exhibition Kuang Road Prayer at the Horsham Regional Arts Gallery in Horsham, Australia, with works inspired and begun during his time at Rimbun Dahan.
Anthony Pelchen in his studio at Rimbun Dahan, photographing Shima, who lives and works at Rimbun Dahan.
Kuang Road Prayer
Kuang Road Prayer – work in progress, Malaysia, July 2010 C type print, 29.9 x 42cm.
In 2010 on an Asialink artist residency at Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia, Pelchen witnessed life in the balance and produced the foundation of a body of work titled Kuang Road Prayer.
Through reflection and continued artistic engagement with Malaysia, Pelchen has expanded this evocative body of work. Issues of change, vulnerability and resilience, at the core of Kuang Road Prayer, are explored in this exhibition through drawing, photography, video and sculpture.
The exhibition entitled Kuang Road Prayer was opened by Angela Hijjas at the Horsham Regional Arts Gallery on 18 August 2013 — read the opening speech here. For more about Kuang Road Prayer, see Anthony Pelchen’s website.
Biography
Born 1960 in Horsham in North West Victoria, Anthony Pelchen studied Economics at Monash University and a decade later painting at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Common to all his work is an overriding interest in the fine lines and shifts between physical and psychological states and how a dominance of one inevitably points to the absence and potential of another. This has involved work across media – painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture and installation – all incorporating elements of repetition, austerity and subtle change within set structures.
Throughout the 1990s he lived in Melbourne and exhibited widely in artist-run, institutional and alternative spaces. He has exhibited twice in Osaka and has been represented in various surveys of painting and drawing over the past twelve years. He has had numerous residencies in Australia and Japan and has been the recipient of Arts Victoria grants for new work, presentation and international cultural exchange.
Since 1998 he has periodically collaborated with Melbourne-based performers Yumi Umiumare and Tony Yap in gallery, church, landscape and performance environments in Australia, Japan and Denmark. Between 1999 and 2007, he jointly conducted Butoh/drawing workshops at his base on the Wimmera River, west of Horsham. In 2007 he continued a biennial use of the local Natimuk Lutheran Church as an installation space, collaborating with 222 local and Japanese children.
In 2008/9 he participated in Drought – Cross Cultural Collaborations. Curated by Lella Cariddi, it resulted in new solo and collaborative work being presented in 2008 in Melbourne at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australian Centre for the Moving Image and Federation Square. In 2009, installation work was commissioned for the Murray Darling Palimpsest #7, Mildura, and the Gold Mining Exchange Building in Ballarat.
His work is represented in collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, John McBride Collection, Australian Print Workshop and Artbank.
Since 2000, he has lived back on land on the Wimmera River in NW Victoria.
3-8pm,7-8 August 2010 Entrance free to the general public.
In the midst of a 14-acre indigenous Malaysian garden, and in the shade of contemporary and traditional architecture, 13 Malaysian and international choreographers presented a collection of site-specific contemporary dance works for Dancing in Place.
The 2010 theme for Dancing in Place was Cross-Pollination. It encouraged choreographers to consider how difference – working with artists from other disciplines, working with people from other cultures or abilities, or working in new environments – creates the potential for rich and vigorous hybridities.
Performers at Dancing in Place this year included Kristine Nilsen Oma (Norway), Elysa Wendi (Singapore), Donna Miranda (Philippines) and Scarlet Yu (Hong Kong), as well nine choreographers from Malaysia including Rathimalar Govindarajoo, Gan Chih Pei, Nurulakmal Abdul Wahid, Muhaini Ahmad, Leng Poh Gee, Fahmi Fadzil and January Low.
‘In Spirit’, staged at Rimbun Dahan by choreographer Rathimalar Govindarajoo on the lawn in front of the art work ‘Sixty Turns.’
SCHEDULE
Time
Item
3pm
Arrival & introduction
3.15pm
The Campus ThoughtChoreographed by Leng Poh Gee & Kathyn Tan Chai Chen
Performed by Lim Siew Ling, Lim Hooi Ming, Lim Shin Hui, Tan Shiao Por & Pan May Tzy
A work by LAPAR LabAt the same time we are doing this particular performance, a batch of new graduates of the dance degree from University of Malaya is celebrating their graduation. We sincerely dedicate this performance to those who are ready to embark upon their journey into professional dance society, and wish them luck.
3.30pm
13 Knots to HomeCreated and performed by Scarlet Yu Mei Wah
Having left her home in Hong Kong ten years ago to live in Singapore, Scarlet Yu has moved from one room to another, one house to another, in a foreign land that has accepted her as an adopted child. In the past ten years, she has made exactly thirteen trips back home to Hong Kong, only to feel more and more distant from the place she once regarded as home.
3.45pm
Dreams InterruptedChoreographed by Elysa Wendi (Singapore)
Performed by Ren Wei ChenInspired by the Kun Opera Peony Pavilion, choreographer Elysa Wendi
investigates the idea of intangibility and the power of dreams in our life. Dreams
interrupted is performed in a series of 5 short segments. Like a dream that happens over a number of days, the audience will slowly find out the full story at the end.
3.54pm
In SpiritChoreographed by Ramli Ibrahim, reworked by Rathimalar Govindarajoo
Performed by Michelle Chang, Revathi Tamilselvam, Sivagamavalli, Tan Mei Mei, Divya Nair, and Rathimalar Govindarajoo.An ode to women who celebrate the rhythm of life.
4.15pm
KapayapaanChoreographed and performed by Wong Oi Min & Gan Chih Pei
Music by Razali bin Abd. RahimA piece about the celebration of life, conservation of nature and cultivation of compassion.
4.40pm
Similar
Choreographed by Nurulakmal Abdul Wahid
Performed by Ahmad Zaki B. Mu Salleh @ Musleh, Muhaini Ahmad & Nurulakmal Abdul Wahid
A man wears women’s clothing, but he is not a woman. No matter how much he imitates her lovely or sexy movements, he can only be similar. He is only an outline. She fills in the gaps.
4.55pm
ChimeraCreated by Kim Kyungmi, Sasha Ratnam & Mathieu Castel
Performed by Kim Kyungmi
Music by Mathieu CastelIn the quirky circle of life, we begin as simple cells awakened by meeting each other. Moulded by genetics over which we have no control, we evolve and mutate through human socialisation, finally leaving nothing behind. No predictions, rules or even will can exist in this cycle of energy. The same clone but different mutants, we are born and fade away within this energy of evolution.
5.10pm
Divide & ConquerChoreographed by Fahmi Fadzil
Performed by audience volunteersMalaysians love polls. Malaysians love being together. Let’s see if this “poll” performance can keep people together. Or not.
5.20pm
Intermission
5.40pm
SweetChoreographed & performed by January Low
Music by Reza Salleh
6.05pm
AchilotCoordinated by Elaine Pedley
Assisted by Muhammad Syaffiq bin Hambali
Choreographed and performed by the young participants of the Rimbun Dahan Dance WorkshopThe workshop is based on basic movements pieced together by the kids through
games and exercises. The focus is on play, hence achilot, a Malay term for various children’s games.
6.30pm
Biji IIChoreographed by Chai Vivan
Performed by Fione Chia Yan Wei, Caren Yap Chai Wen, Denny Donius, Chew Sie Theng, Sufi Asyraf b. Mohd Azman, Woo Yan Ten & Anna Lee See Wan.Something small springs into growth. From the seed comes life.
6.50pm
Anything less is less than a reckless actChoreographed and performed by Donna Miranda
Dramaturgy by Angelo V. Suarez
Featuring (on video) PJ Rebullida & Marah ArcillaTo go to the theatre, to go shopping, to watch a dance performance or the latest Hollywood movie—any aesthetic experience is informed by a decision-making process. This entails a necessary foreclosure: to choose one experience means not experiencing another. With the use of two rooms that cannot be experienced by the audience simultaneously—one with a video featuring two dancers in a duet, another where Miranda talks about the video’s context—Anything less is less than a reckless act allows room for participation. This in turn exposes the futility of the concept of participation in theatre, a prohibitive system designed to distinguish performer from audience. To risk the audience’s subjectivity by giving them a measure of activity is to risk theatre itself.
7.40pm
Marilyn Monroe’s last 20 minutes before committing suicide
Created and performed by Kristine Nilsen Oma
Video art by Kok Siew Wai
The work is an experiential exploration of the Buddhist concept that earthly desires can lead to enlightenment. The work is a response to meeting a whole new environment and culture, and a personal quest to understand both my own desires and how to make them come from a higher perspective. In the context of the Third World certain neuroses becomes ridiculous. Yet they were created as a response to the Western world I have lived in all my life. How do I cope in the Third World? How will my neuroses behave? Is there a control in this experiment?
This last item is not appropriate for children.
Artists in Dancing in Place 2010 observing the performances from their green room.
Liew Kwai Fei, “one of the most exciting new generation of abstract painters in Malaysia”, undertook a 3-month residency at Rimbun Dahan from July to September 2010.
Kwai Fei majored in Ink Painting at the Malaysia Art Institute. Since graduation, he has participated in a number of group exhibitions such as ‘3 Instalasi + 3@RAP’ A Preview of Installation Art and Drawings at Rumah Air Panas, Kuala Lumpur (2003), YOUQING – A Showcase of Ink Painting and Drawing at Rumah Air Panas, Kuala Lumpur (2004), and Al-kesah/Once Upon A Time in Malaysia at Map Art Space (2010). In 2003, Kwai Fei held his first solo exhibition titled ‘Fei’ at Rumah Air Panas, Kuala Lumpur which travelled to Le Bois Creation, Melaka. He also participated in the VASL International Artist Residency in Karachi, Pakistan in 2003.
Bengkel dan persembahan akan diadakan di Bilik Tari, Rimbun Dahan, Km 27 Jalan Kuang, Kuang, Selangor 48050.
Tarikh bengkel:
Ahad 1hb Ogos, 10 pagi – 12 tengah hari
Sabut 7 Ogos, 10 pagi – 2.30 petang (makan tengah hari akan dihidangkan)
Tarikh persembahan kepada orang ramai:
Sabtu 7 Ogos, kira-kira 5.45 petang
Ahad 8 Ogos, kira-kira 5.45 petang
Syarat-syarat:
Untuk peserta lelaki atau perempuan berumur 11-16 tahun sahaja, dari kawasan Sungai Buloh/Kuang
Peserta diminta hadir untuk kedua-dua sesi bengkel dan kedua-dua persembahan
Bengkel ini tidak memerlukan kebolehan tari atau pengalaman menari, hanya keminatan.
Peserta-peserta diminta memakai pakaian sukan dan membawa botol air sendiri.
Semasa bengkel ini, Elaine Pedley akan memperkenalkan beberapa kaedah untuk mencipta tarian moden sekumpulan. Selepas tamatnya bengkel ini, peserta-peserta akan mempersembahkan tarian yang telah direka kepada orang ramai, sebagai sebuah acara untuk pesta tari Dancing in Place yang akan dijalankan di Rimbun Dahan pada hari Sabtu & Ahad 7 & 8 Ogos.
Untuk sebarang pertanyaan tolong hubungi Bilqis Hijjas, Pengarah Program Tari di Rimbun Dahan: 017 310 3769 atau bhijjas@gmail.com
Elaine Pedley telah bekerja di dalam bidang tari dan lakonan selama dua puluh tahun, di dalam persembahan teater sepertiFamily (di Berlin Arts Festival 1999 di Jerman), Manchester United and the Malay Warrior (di Manchester, semasa Pesta Budaya Sukan Komanwel 2002), Spring in Kuala Lumpur (sebuah kolaborasi bersama kumpulan teater Jepun Pappa Tarahumara), Spilt Gravy on Rice (yang telah memenangi Lakonan Terbaik dalam Anugerah Seni BOH Cameronian) danBunga Manggar Bunga Raya yang telah direka oleh Datin Marion D’Cruz.
Elaine pernah juga bekerja di dalam industri filem, dengan lakonan untuk filem, televisyen, siri VCD, serta bekerja sebagai pelakon dan ahli koreografi untuk iklan siaran televisyen. Beliau telah bekerja sebagai ahli koreografi dan perunding persembahan untuk beberapa peraduan fitness seperti Miss Malaysia Fitness 2004,Miss Asia Pacific Woman Fitness 2004 championships, International Fitness Women’s Championships 2005 dan Fitkid International Championships 2007.
Pengalaman teaternya telah membawa Elaine ke Paris, Cannes, Noumea, Beijing, Shanghai, Berlin, Manchester, Bangalore, Singapore dan Bali. Beliau telah juga dilantik sebagai calon untuk beberapa anugerah di dalam Anugerah Seni BOH Cameronian, termasuk Pelakon Terbaik (2007 & 2009) dan Persembahan Kumpulan Terbaik di dalam bidang teater dan tari (2008 & 2010), dan beliau telah berjaya menang anugerah Kumpulan Tari Terbaik pada tahun 2002.
