Interesting Green: Quality Appreciation Day- 26th Nov 2010: Visit to Desaru Fruit Farm

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By Jeslin Loo, Saturday, 27 November 2010
(A one day trip, starting early in the morning at 0730 hrs till 2000hrs in the twilight zone, from Singapore to Malaysia)

PHOTO: Rose apple / Jambu Air (Eugenia aquea) flowering.
Flowers are 2-4", with hundreds of beautiful white stamens that attract nectar loving insects.
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PHOTO: Desaru Fruit Farm
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PHOTO: Desaru Fruit Farm, reminiscent view of our early childhood and kampong days. The environment is full of fresh & green with animals chattering peacefully. Otherwise is a very quiet atmosphere and simple life.
I still have many recollections of the past experiences when walking and living with the fauna and flora.
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PHOTO: 榕树下
路边一棵榕树下是我怀念的地方
晴朗的天空凉爽的风还有醉人的绿草香
和你绕过小路弯弯情人山坡看斜阳
晚霞照上你的脸情话绵绵说不完啊
你可想起榕树下可曾想起缘草香
路边一棵榕树下是我见你的地方
甜美的笑容亲切的话还有默默的情意长
你曾陪我留恋春光尽情细诉心中愿
几个春天已过去就是就是不能忘
啊你可想起榕树下可曾想起绿草香
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PHOTO: Friends and colleagues gathering together for a much needed meal and rest. We are really blessed with such beautiful company and good food.
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PHOTO: Breadfruit trees and a hint of fine clear weather ahead. Huge lovely green above and the bright blue sky beyond. This is one kind of present which we have took for granted. Now is the time, now is the moment, to appreciate the beauty and inner peace that nature can offer.
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PHOTO: Artocarpus altilis or breadfruit tree is from broad tree up to 20 m high with leaves 30-50 cm long that are thick, leathery and lobed. The greenish seedless fruits are round, mealy and about 20-25 cm in diameter. They are cooked or baked and used in the same way as potatoes. Abundant on Silhouette but rarely used as food at the present.
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PHOTO: Breadfruit trees and the serene & tranquil blue sky high above. Our creator, God, has being kind to us, providing the much slogged relaxation and happiness while we worked diligently .
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PHOTO: Dragon Fruit and rows of jack-fruit trees after this exotic fruit of the far east. The welcome shades are plentiful but still not enough compared to our mobile umbrella.
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PHOTO: Bitter gourd, a potential herbal medicine for a lot of ailments, particularly in treating diabetes.
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PHOTO: The twining plant around the specially constructed metal structure provides enough shade to cool the weary tourists.
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PHOTO: Simple but practical area under the cool shade, to catch up on the day's events, and for the guide to continue with the farm's introduction.
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PHOTO: "Ba-long-long" fruit
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PHOTO: "Ba-long-long" fruit. Unripe ba long long has green/brown skin that is hard and the skin need to be remove and eat the fruit with either plum powder or prawn paste, as in Chinese rojak.
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PHOTO: Banana plant and "Devil's fruit" plant. There are many different species of banana plants but mostly grow in groups with thick vegetation.
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PHOTO: Guava plant. The guava, with its strong, rich aroma, is a large berry with diameter around 2 to 15 centimetres, and weighs ranging from 10 grams to 1 kilogram.
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PHOTO: Guava plant with fruits wrapped with protective covering against insects
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PHOTO: Guava plant flowering
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PHOTO: Bitter gourd
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PHOTO: Bitter gourd
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PHOTO: Cucumber White Melon - manage to get the name and spelling from NTUC supermarket
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PHOTO: Cucumber White Melon
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PHOTO: Papaya plants
Papayas may be very helpful for the prevention of atherosclerosis and diabetic heart disease. Papayas are an excellent source of vitamin C as well as a good source of vitamin E and vitamin A (through their concentration of pro-vitamin A carotenoid phytonutrients), three very powerful antioxidants.
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PHOTO: Thousand bananas
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PHOTO: Coffee tree
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PHOTO: Raw coffee seeds
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PHOTO: Poisonious banana and cannot be eaten (fruits are growing upwards). What is the purpose of growing them?
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PHOTO: Rose apple / Jambu Air (Eugenia aquea) wrapped with thin colourful plastic bags to protect against insects. The pink plastic bags brighten up the atmosphere, just like Christmas is coming.
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PHOTO: The best part of the farm's harvest is the Fruit tasting.
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PHOTO: Fruit tasting is a proud event hosted by the farmers who in primitive ways are trying their best to make the guests feel welcome and to enjoy as much as possible. Such kampong spirit is unimaginable in today's society but such is the unmistakable amount of efforts put in by the simple folks.
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PHOTO: Fruit tasting and more tasting. No rules, no complicated regulations and no boundaries between anybody, but just the simple dying energy for the tourists to feel satisfied and happy.
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