Pancar nettle (Pouzolzia pentandra)

Pancar nettle (Pouzolzia pentandra) is a species of plant in Urticaceae, a shrub that grows upright with a height of about 50 cm, leaves and flowers grow in all directions along the trunk, wild around ditches, riverbanks in forests, agricultural land, abandoned places and lots of sun.

P. pentandra has a main stem that is upright, soft and not woody, is cylindrical to square with several linear fins and is red in color. The trunk has short branches at the lower end, is smaller and is horizontal.

The leaves grow along the stem, have no stalk, are elongated, pointed at the tip, a bone in the middle to the tip forms a trench, two smaller bones running on each side with many sideways veins, the upper surface is green and the lower surface is lighter.

The flowers grow along the stem, clustered on each axillary of the leaves and branches, are bowl-shaped, white with reddish interior. Pancar nettle grows in colonies to form thickets and shrubs near water sources.

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Urticaceae
Genus: Pouzolzia
Species: Pouzolzia pentandra

Yellow garden spider (Argiope appensa)

Yellow garden spider ( Argiope appensa ) is a species of spider in Araneidae that lives on the coast to forests on islands in the western Pacific Ocean. Black and yellow females are striking and have a length of 5.1-6.4 cm including long legs, while males are brown and have a length of about 1.9 cm. A. appensa lives on cliffs in the hills at 600 m above sea level in Kewu plain to rice fields in the lowlands. They make nests at a height of 1.5 meters from the ground between teak ( Tectona grandis ), sonokeling ( Dalbergia latifolia ), sonosiso ( Dalbergia sissoo ), crown flower ( Calotropis gigantea ) and various grasses. Yellow garden spiders grow in large sizes, but are not toxic to humans. Advanced builds ball-shaped nets and most of them make stabilizers which are zigzag-shaped lines in nets made of thicker bands. This species spends more time in stationary and sits in the middle of the net with its head down to wait for insects to be entangled in fine silk thread. Unli...

Skyflower (Duranta erecta)

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Pink trumpet tree (Tabebuia heterophylla)

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