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Description:

These bushes are a magnet for Sunbirds, Flowerpeckers and White-eyes, but trying to photograph them is virtually impossible as they are mostly hidden.

Habitat:

Tropical montane rainforest.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)

I just read that there is only one species of Poinsettia, Euphorbia pulcherrima, which has red bracts. When I was in Thailand, up in the Northern mountains on the Burmese border, we saw Poinsettia bushes with both red and yellow bracts, so I added Thailand to the search and came up with 18 species of Euphorbia, but they are all cultivated. We saw the plants at Doi Ang Khang which is a research centre for plants and vegetables. I can find nothing of Ponsettia growing wild in Borneo. They do grow wild in my garden in Spain though. My wife thinks this may be a species f Pieris, which also have red Bracts
Could it be a type of wild poinsettia ? There are species in this area....
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PublishedApril 2, 2013

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