Click On One of The Plants To Learn More About it.
Some Of The Plant Species That Live in The Rainforest are:
 Bengal Bamboo
 Bougainvillea
 Curare
 Coconut Tree
 Durian
 Jambu
 Kapok Tree
 Mangrove Trees
 Strangler Figs
 Tualang
 Glossary
 Index

Common Names: Spineless Indian Bamboo, Calcutta Cane
Genus : Bambusa
Species : tulda
Some Facts About This Plant:
• Bambusa tulda can be found in the biome of the Southeast Asian
Rainforest .
• It does very well in a moist environment with a lot of rainfall.
• It is most comfortable with temperatures between 40 degrees Fahrenheit and 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Common Names: None
Genus : Bougainvillea
Species : Spectabilis
Some Facts About This Plant:
• The bougainvillea plant usually grows in the biome of the Amazon rainforest in South America.
• The countries that lie in this biome are Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador,
Colombia, and Venezuela.
• The rainforest has thousands of plant species and is the home for many animals, too.

Common Names: Curare, Grieswurzel, Pareira Brava, Pareira, Vigne Sauvage
Genus : Chondrodendron
Species : tomentosum
Some Facts About This Plant:
• Curare grows usually as a large liana, or vine, found in the canopy of the
South American rainforest .
• The vine, surprisingly, get as thick as 4 inches in diameter at its base.
• It can some times have large alternate, heart-shaped leaves which can be
4-8 inches long and almost as wide, with a 2-6 inches long petiole.

Common Names: Coconut Tree
Genus : Cocos
Species : nucifera
Some Facts About This Plant:
• Some people believe that this coconut palm is the symbol of romance in the tropics.
• Similar tall trees grow to be 50-80 feet.
• The smallest type of Palm Tree is called the Dwarf palm.

Common Names: Civet Fruit, Stinkvrucht
Genus : Durio
Species : zibethinus
Some Facts About This Plant:
• The Durian is thought to be one of Southeast Asia's most ancient and primitive trees.
• It grows in lowland rainforests , and is native to Borneo, Indonesia and
Malaysia.
• It bears large, odoriferous fruits directly from its trunk and main tree branches.

Common Names: Jambu Ayer, Djamboe Aer, Watery Rose Apple
Genus : Syzygium
Species : aqueum
Some Facts About This Plant:
• Jambu grows naturally from Southern India to Eastern Malaya.
• A member of the myrtle family, this fruit is the smallest in a group of similar fruits of the Syzygium genus .
• Jambu is a small tree or large shrub which grows on the average of 10 to
20 feet in height.

Common Names: Kapok, Ceiba, Silk-cotton tree
Genus : Ceiba
Species : pentandra
Some Facts About This Plant:
• The Kapok tree is an emergent tree of the tropical rainforests , and is often described as majestic .
• It can sometimes grow to a height of 150 feet or more, towering over other trees in the rainforest .
• Originally a native to South America it now has spread to the primary rainforests of West Africa, and the Southeast Asian rainforests of the
Malay Peninsula, and the Indonesian archipelago.

Some Facts:
• Mangroves are woody, specialized types of trees of the tropics that can live on the edge, where rainforests meet oceans.
• Found on usually sheltered coastlines and river deltas , they grow in brackish wetlands between land and sea.
• They protect the coastline and prevent by collecting from the rivers and streams and slowing down the flow of water

Common Names: Banyan Tree
Genus : Ficus
Species : ssp.
Some Facts About This Plant:
• Figs are one of the most important plant species of a rainforest ecosystem .
• There are close to 1,000 different species of Ficus, which can be found in every major rainforest , tropical continent and islands around the world.
• Hundreds of animals like pigeons, parrots, hornbills, toucans, monkeys, gibbons, and fruit-eating bats, feed on the sweet fruit of the fig tree.

Common Names: Mengaris, Honey Bee Tree, Dëoh
Genus : Koompassia
Species : excelsa
Some Facts About This Plant:
• The Tualang tree is a majestic emergent tree of the Southeast Asian rainforests best know for the disk shaped honeycombs which hang from its horizontal branches.
• The Tualang can reach 250 feet, or the 30 stories in height.
• These trees can sometimes be found growing in the lowland rainforests of southern Thailand, peninsular Malaysia, northeastern Sumatra, Borneo, and Palawan.

Plants live in certain areas because:
• It has a specific amount of sunlight, rainfall, and soil.
• The area doesn’t have very many animals that will eat it.
• That area has a lot of nutrients in the soil that the plant can feed off of.
• It has temperatures that keep it healthy.

• Rainforest: One of the 7 biomes.
• Biome: There are 7 biomes (Tropical Rainforest, Savanna, Grassland
Tundra, Desert, Taiga, and Temperate Deciduous Forest)
• Genus: A general kind of something
• Species: One or more of something
• Shrub: A kind of bush
• Canopy: The top layer of a Rainforest
• Majestic: manner or bearing
• Emergent: occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action
• Ecosystem: Something made up of living and Non-living things.

Books:
• Ellen Doris - Raintree Steck-Vaughn - 2000
• Arthur Dorros - Scholastic - 1990
Website:
• " Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae)", http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/ acc_num/198500310.html
. (4/5/03).
• "Ceiba pentandra", http://www.hear.org/pier/cepen.htm
. (4/5/03).
• "Ceiba pentandra", http://www.uog.edu/cals/site/POG/ceiba.html
. (4/5/03).
• "Ceiba pentandra L.-Kapok tree", http://www.tropilab.com/ceiba-pen.html
. (4/5/03).
• "UC Gardens", http://www.umt.edu/uc/gardens/northplnt/ceiba.htm
. (4/5/03).
• "Kapok, product page", http://www.tisgdv.de/tis_e/ware/fasern/kapok/kapok.htm#informationen . (4/5/03).