Gemungal

And another one, called gemungal, or murungal

Momordica charantia

This is the picture of peria cited in the class

Ethnobotany of Sabah

Check out some photos of me an the locals in Sabah, uploaded in our flickr ethnoplaces and ethnomedicines

The new Flickr Site called EthnoSpices

Like I don’t have anything else to do? Well I have to get a new home for our spice photos. Remember my selected spice photos I showed you in the class? Well I put it in this new flickr depository called ethnospices.

Check it out here: Ethnospices

Ubi Kemili

In Kelantan, this ubi is known as ubi keling, and favorite among old timers. In our flickr photodepositories, someone call it Stemona curtissii, which was obviously wrong. The real name for ubi kemili is S. tuberosa. The real S. curtisii is known as kemili hutan or galak tua. This is how the leaves of Stemona curtissii look like.

And the ubi is like this:

More photos is ethnomedicine flickr.

Markah Untuk Flickr Comments

I check our flickr depositories today and read some excellent comments by students. I must congratulate those who work hard to put in comments with lot of interesting information.  But some students have very few comments and very little extra info. I am afraid they will not a good grade.

I will continue to open comment sections until tomorrow. Then it will be locked and the grading will continue. For those with photos in their site, please make sure you have at least the botanical name and local names for it to be usefull

Trip To Kelantan

Pakdin and 11 students from STAB6123 class was visiting Kelantan from 22 Feb 2007 to 25 Feb 2007. Group photo of all students in Gua Musang

And another one in Cameron Highland

In the first day we spent all morning doing market survey in Pasar Siti Khatijah

These reporters are busy snapping pictures

Not all products in Pasar Siti Khatijah are fruit and vegetables, many traditional medicinal products are there on sale. Here Ezzawanis interviewing one of the sellers

From Kota Bharu we went to Gua Musang, to interview our bidan respondent.

The next day we return to Gua Musang to spend the afternoon in Taman Etnobotani

Kesedar. We were greeted by the resident Lotong, up in the tree.

And look at these spectators

The next day we went to see Rafflesia in Pos Brooke, Lojing and the report was lready been made available in Rafflesia-in-Bloom.

On 25th, we headed home via Cameron Highland, with brief stop-over to see Agro-tourism potential og CH.

Please Update Photo Collection

Now that we have systems all set, students should start update the botanical and vernacular names. All pictures are of my set and those of Faizi and Donna. If you have other species, please upload. Do not load pictures of the same species, we will have problem with space

CD for all photos

I have organized, sort and downgrade all photos taken during our trip. You can get the CD from Systematics Lab or from me

Flickr Photo Depository

I found out that the Flickr free account limits to 200 photos only. To get around this problem, I created 3 more accounts and now all photos should be organised in these 4 accounts.

The Flickr sites are:

• EtnoFlora - Plants in ethnobotany photo depository for students
• EtnoPlace - Ethnobotanical places visited by my students
  
• EtnoMedicine - Medicinal plants and products depository for students
  
• EtnoAgrotourism - Agrotourism places visited by my students

You can logon and edit photos in these account via web, and password that was given in the class