Bogor Botanic Garden

The founder of the Bogor Botanic Garden was a Dutch, Casper George Carl Reinwardt, a German who moved to Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He called the garden ’s Lands Plantentuin. Initially the gardens were established on 47 hectares of the grounds bordering the palace, in 1817. Reinwardt was Director in agricultural business, arts and sciences on Java and neighboring islands. He was interested in investigating plants which were widely used by the Javanese for domestic and medicinal purposes.

The Little Jewels From The Rainforest of Sarawak

Ever since I fell in love with wild orchids, jewel orchid is always my favourite type of orchid. Jewel orchid is the general term to refer to a group of terrestrial orchids which have very beautiful foliage. When you look at the leaves of these orchids in some angles under the sunlight, the leaves glitter just like a jewel or gem; therefore people called it “Jewel orchid”. In Sarawak of Malaysian Borneo, there are more than 50 species of jewel orchid from different genera growing in different type of habitats from near to the sea level peat swamp forest to mountain-tops.