Click
here - for a list of plants found in the Park, prepared by staff and academic visitors.
(Updated Aug. 2021: conforms to APG IV; Eudicot families ordered alphabetically. Original Park list below.) |
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Click here - for Check-list of labelled trees and lianas in the Park (v.2 16/8/2021)
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Epiphytes
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Epiphytic ferns
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Epiphytes
grow on the outside of trees and other plants. They include mosses,
ferns and orchids.
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When
epiphytic orchids fall to the ground, they are doomed to die - then
(and only then) it is legitimate to harvest them for cultivation and
decoration ...
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Nearer
to the forest floor ... |
Under-storey
flowers |
As in many Asian
tropical forests, the Zingiberacae
are represented in Cat Tien - including: forest gingers, Zingiber
spp. such as the endemic Z.
collinsii, Curcuma
spp. (the genus that includes the spice turmeric) and the delicate
Globba albiflora var. aurea. In
the dry season, flowers in the Acanthaceae,
such as Phlogacanthus, are well represented.
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Bamboo
A
substantial proportion of the park is bamboo forest which, although
much less diverse than primary forest, does support a certain
amount of wildlife and hold the soil (thus protecting riparian
zones). This rather attractive 'bamboo archway' boarders the road
near the Thac Troi (Heaven) rapids.
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Click here - for original list (with edits: checking of families & genera)
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