#saveourmangrove

Kami segenap staff Blue Forests cabang Papua mengucapkan Selamat Hari Mangrove Internasional 😉🌱 . #InternationalMangroveDay #MangroveDay #HariMangrove #SaveOurMangrove (di Timika, Papua, Indonesia)

This is a Nypa plant (Nypa fruticans) live in estuary habitat, one of mangrove group from Palmae family. The picture show a flower on this plant - see the bright orange yellowish colour - the female flower sits on the center -it has globular form-, while the male flowers surround it -long brush shape like covering with pollen-. From the male flower stalk, if we make a nice cut, came a sweet sap called "Nira", some people or community make a refreshing drink from it, also make a brown sugar or even liquor . #Nipa #NypaFruticans #Mangrove #Asmat #Papua #SaveOurMangrove #Palem #Palmae #Biology #Botany #Spadiciflorae #Spadix #Flower (di Distrik Agats, kabupaten Asmat)

Excoecaria agallocha (Family Euphorbiaceae) now is fruiting season, this picture showed an immature fruits and wait till a dry season to dispersed seeds (I love to hear the sound of seeds when popped out from it’s pod). It’s a very dangerous tree, the milky sap is very poisonous, only a slight contact with eyes can cause temporary blindness, that’s why people challed them blind-your-eye tree, river poison tree, and Sambuta (Makassar) and daun buta (Asmat) --- #Mangrove #Sambuta #SaveOurMangrove #Excoecaria #MangroveAsmat