Plants of Indonesia

So I thought some of you might be interested to take a VERY (!) limited look at some of the plant life we have encountered here so far.



A Chocolate Tree!!


A weird goo plant.... in case you can't tell, this will not be the most informative of posts.

Papaya

Passion fruit flower

Passion Fruit fruit

A Pineapple plant! I don't know about you, but I had always thought they grew on trees!

Very baby pineapple

Slightly bigger pineapple...

Slightly bigger pineapple...

Slightly more bigger....

Biggest!!

These are rubber trees! Not only do they look bendy, like rubber, but they produce the latex or whatever used to make rubber. Very important to the automobile tire industry.

I'm not sure how clearly you can see in this picture, but they collect the rubber stuff in a way quite similar to how we collect maple syrup... it smells much much MUCH worse though.

Ready to be collected...This one has already been taken off the tree; they collect the rubber stuff while attached to the tree.

This is sugar cane! If families don't have a lot of money, sometimes they will plant sugar cane on their land so their kids can enjoy a sweet treat now and then.

They just hacked it down with a machete and then strip an end with a knife, then we grab onto the end and they hack it off for us!

Mmmmmm!! Sugarcane!

Nice to try, but I don't actually like it very much.

Here's all the sugar I need.