Monday, May 18, 2009 • 10:52 PM
♥ Mangrove part 1
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These pictures shows the lobster mounts.
This is the first thing we saw when we entered the mangrove.
The lobster mounts are meant for the vinegar crabs to live in.
It protects the vinegar crabs from their predators such as
monitor lizards.
These are some pictures of the vinegar crab.
Vinegar crabs are known as the tree-climbing crab
and they only climb trees whenever the tide is coming.
They are primarily leaf-eaters and are also known as pests
of mangrove plantations because of their habit of attacking
propagules. They will also scavenge meat like many other crabs.
The Teochew are known to pickle this crab in black sauce with
vinegar, and take it with porridge. On the other hand, Thais
like it salted, with the roe or simply fried whole.
source:http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/2049.htm
These are the sea holly.
It is a specialized kind of plant as it is very
adaptable and it has jagged and smooth leaves.
The jagged leaves represents the sufficient amount
of sunlight it gets. The smooth leaves represents
the lesser amount of sunlight it gets.
Southeast Asia
Locally, sea holly are found in various northern sites
as well as the dyke of the Western Catchment Area.
This plant is erect and its shrubby herbs can grow
up to 1.5 meters tall, with many spiny and has green
stems leaves like those of holly usually. Another
type of sea holly has leaves that are blade dark green
which is stiff. On the other hand,it is deeply lobed with
sharp spines at each lobe's tip curved like a full sun,
flatter in shade.
Spikes of the sea holly are neatly organised.
For the sea holly with flowers, the spikes are located
at the branch tips. The white petals would turn
brownish when it grows older.
capsules squarish and slightly flattened, exploding when ripe to send their whitish, flat seeds flying up to 2 m from the parent plant. Shaded to fully-exposed in the undergrowth and on mud-lobster mounds.
Source: href="http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/1045.htm">http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/1045.htm
This is a fishtail palm.
It is call 'fishtail' because it's leaves has the shape of a
fish's tail.
