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Rare Local Plants

Thailand is been endowed with great plant diversity. The vascular plants, especially, have as many as 15,000 species. Many of them are of economic and medicinal importance. So let us introduce some of them and if you want to see them you can visit Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden which has sent us the following pictures and information.

Dork Reed Khao

Gentiana crassa Kurz

Found in Burma and the North of Thailand on Doi Inthanon and Doi Langa Luang, Chiang Mai.

This is a rare plant recorded only once by Dr. A.F. H.Keer in May, 1921 at Doi Angkha, Inthanon National Park.

15 – 30 cm high, purple flowers with shuttle shape, blooming from May – June.

Preuk

DAlbizia lebbeck (Linn.) Benth

0 – 15 metres high with specially shaped flowers like brushes, yellow and green.

Found in Asia and Africa in deciduous forest, blooming from March – December.

Wood used for construction, leaf for cures of certain poisons, seed for ringworm.