FIELD TRIP WITH PATRICK BLANC, MOUNT KINABALU, BORNEO

The Botanist Patrick Blanc takes you to a field trip around Mount Kinabalu, the summit of Borneo, in the dense mossy forests around 1500 m as well as in the lower mountain forests around 500 m above sea level. While harboring about 15 000 plant species, Borneo is one of the Biodiversity Hotspots.
We thank Michael Sundue for manys Fern names, Ian Turner for Chassalia chewii and Tim Utteridge for the Saurauia.
Filmed & produced by Pascal Héni
PasPat 2022
Plant list :
Aeschynanthus tricolor, Aglaonema simplex, Alocasia princeps, Amorphophallus sp., Anoectochilus monicae, Antrophyum callifolium, Ardisia sp., Arenga brevipes, Argostemma gracile, Argostemma hameliifolium, Arisaema laminatum, Asplenium nidus, Begonia beryllae, Begonia gueritziana, Begonia kinabaluensis, Blechnaceae sp., Bulbophyllum lobbii, Calanthe triplicata, Calymmodon sp., Carex perakensis var. borneensis, Chassalia chewii, Colocasia oresbia, Curculigo latifolia, Curculigo sp., Cyrtandra basiflora, Cyrtandra warburgiana, Dawsonia longifolia, Dendrocnide oblanceolata, Dioscorea sp., Diplazium cordifolium, Dissochaeta sp., Drynaria heraclea, Drynaria quercifolia, Drynaria rigidula, Drynaria sparsisora, Elatostema acuminatum, Elatostema bullatum, Elatostema kabayense, Etlingera elatior, Falcatifolium falciforme, Ficus megaleia, Ficus sp., Ficus stolonifera, Ficus villosa, Freycinetia sp., Gigantochloa levis, Goniothalamus roseus, Goodyera rostellata, Grammatophyllum speciosum, Hanguana major, Hellenia (= Costus) globosa, Heptapleurum (= Schefflera) avene, Heptapleurum (= Schefflera) bipalmatifolia, Hornstedtia gracilis, Joinvillea borneensis, Leptaspis zeylanica, Lindsaea repens, Litsea sp., Mapania latifolia, Medinilla amplectens, Medinilla crassifolia, Medinilla speciosa, Nabalu (= Schismatoglottis) corneri, Nepenthes veitchii, Oleandra pistillaris, Ooia kinabaluensis, Ophiopogon caulescens, Ophiorrhiza sp., Pandanus kinabaluensis, Paraphlomis javanica, Phanera (= Bauhinia) steenisii, Phyllagathis elliptica, Phyllocladus hypophyllus, Pilea pterocaulis, Piper aurilimbum, Piper sp., Plagiostachys parva, Platerodrilus cf. paradoxus, Platycerium coronarium, Podochilus microphyllus, Poikilospermum scabrinervium, Poikilospermum suaveolens, Pothos barberianus, Pothos insignis, Pothos ovatifolius, Rafflesia keithii, Saurauia agamae, Schismatoglottis cf. ahmadii, Schismatoglottis cf. wongii, Scindapsus kinabaluensis, Scindapsus pictus, Selaginella argentea, Sonerila beccariana, Sonerila borneensis var. setulosa, Sonerila pulchella, Sonerila tenuifolia, Sphaerotheriida Giant Pill Millipede, Sticherus hirtus, Sticherus truncatus var. plumiformis, Tacca sp., Tectaria pleiosora, Tristaniopsis bilocularis, Zingiber coloratum

[@porquee]

This channel should have millions of views

[@creaturefree]

Thanks and we agree.... But...

[@onlyplants]

Stumbled upon this channel, this video is both interesting and important! Will be watching the other episodes too! I cant believe these videos are not more popular!

[@creaturefree]

Thanks for your comment. Sure, we are not good to popularize our films since nor Pascal or myself are on the social medias. We can just hope that youtube will be a kind of long term library for the creations... We just come back from North Thailand, thus at the end of the rainy season and I have seen many strange plants including Chisocheton penduliflorus with inflorescence axis 7 m long ! Then back to Singapore for inauguration of my vertical gardens and other green creations at the airport terminal 2.

[@konasteph]

Not my intention to bring politics into this, but rather the philosophical question of why we are building malls, roads, gas stations, cars...etc. etc. Is this military industrial complex that we regard as our highest cultural accomplishment really the road forward? Or is it the road that has brought us to the brink of self destruction? THINK! Yes, monsieur Blanc, you are wearing shoes, clothes, colors that are produced by our technological world, not to speak about the camera and the internet that brings your work into our focus.... So you are putting the fruit of the destructive high technology to good use... the best kind of use and action and food for thought that I can think of! Pray, continue and, without you mentioning any of the philosophical questions of our destructive behavior on this planet, you are addressing it in a most meaningful way! Mercy beaucoup indeed!

[@Fungiculturalist]

I don’t understand how these videos don’t have 500x more views that they do. Amazing and so pleasurable to watch. I want to share them with so many people, perhaps I will in Reddit

[@creaturefree]

Thanks so much; Actually we are not connected to any social media and this is probably why few people look at our videos. Hopefully, it seems that the persons who are finding them are happy.

[@nicks22]

this is INCREDIBLE. You guys should invest in some ads or something. It's a shame that people don't get to see these.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you so much for sharing your amazing field trip to one of the most botanically interesting places in the world.

[@obt7028]

love you sooo much! your passion is unimaginable! inspiration!

[@isabelleprevost5208]

Merci Pascal de savoir aussi bien mettre en valeur et en musique vos voyages et découvertes De grosses bises Isa et th

[@helgedonath1524]

wonderful video master! I am completely flashed by the variety of species but even more by your knowledge. it is an inspiration for me to follow you. greetings also to heini, unknown way. great shots!

[@CarlosRuiz-en9iy]

I love the intro music, what is it. And omg love this mans excursions!

[@eprohoda]

creatuurefree- breathtaking .see you on my side. 🔥

[@datulkumar1081]

Hey Patrick blanc ,,ur are speaking so stylishly,,like singing a song of nature 🤣🤣🤣🤣love from 🇮🇳 india ,I'm nature addict ,

[@Purwapada]

fantastic

[@creaturefree]

According to Kartonegoro (2022), the correct name for the widespread Medinilla speciosa would be now Medinilla eximia.

[@creaturefree]

The Lauraceae at 1.02.10 is not a Litsea but an Actinodaphne, probably Actinodaphne glomerata.

[@marioplant4640]

👍👍👍👍

[@shivakompani]

This video helped me a lot with the deciphering of some endemic plants in the peninsular Malaysian rainforests. Thank you for the detail, the energy and the passion you put in your explanations. The images were also very neat and appreciable.

[@creaturefree]

Thanks so much. I love Peninsular Malaysia and I have been in the forests very often, especially in the eighties while working for my PhD at Paris university. We still come back very often with Pascal but he did not yet release a film except some parts in our film on Cryptocoryne and also (in French) in the film about "my" Begonia blancii. Many photos of Peninsular Malaysia plants on my website, especially in the 6 chapters "Understory Plants" at "Inspiration".

[@shivakompani]

Thanks for the information Patrick. I'll go and visit your website too. I have not had the chance to watch all your videos yet as I'm still in Malaysia but they are on my list. P.S (Fr): j'ai vu, il y a un an des anciens vidéos de votre intérieur... Ce fut un enchantement total...La parfaite harmonie entre le savoir ultime et un goût raffiné pour le monde végétal ou mieux encore le "continuum" végétal. A couper le souffle.

[@creaturefree]

Merci infiniment ! Pascal prépare les nouveaux films sur la Nouvelle Calédonie où nous étions en août dernier. Et puis ce fut un régal de retourner en octobre au nord de la Thaïlande, donc en fin de mousson, avec les plantes à l'apogée de leur croissance et floraison. Et pourtant, je connais ce pays depuis 50 ans, mon premier voyage en tant qu'étudiant à l'université de Paris était en 1972 ! Comme quoi, en ouvrant bien les yeux, la nature nous réserve toujours de nouvelles merveilleuses surprises.@@shivakompani

[@paulecymiller9667]

Parabéns Patrick Blanc pelo trabalho maravilhoso!

[@myfishroom1]

🌿🌿🌿😍😍😍🌺🌺🌺👍👍👍👍

[@simongordeziani3791]

Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo. Merci que la vidéo soit maintenant en 4k. Beaucoup mieux à voir maintenant.

[@creaturefree]

Oui, c'est bien meilleur en 4 K mais c'est encore plus de travail pour Pascal...

[@simongordeziani3791]

@@creaturefree Merci beaucoup d'avoir maintenant une vidéo en 4k ! Beaucoup mieux à voir, je regarde tout cela sur une grande télé. Seulement vous avez une sorte de filtre vert supplémentaire activé, peut-être que ce n'est pas nécessaire, il me semble que c'est superflu. Il vaut mieux voir des couleurs et des peintures plus naturelles et originales. En général, vous incarnez mes rêves de tels voyages. J'aime vraiment, vraiment les plantes tropicales. Merci beaucoup, je vous suis reconnaissant, cette chaîne est une belle trouvaille pour moi, il n'y a rien de tel sur KZbin !

[@user-yh7ei9jf8n]

Супер красота !

[@creaturefree]

Благодаря and some others will come soon about north eastern parts of Borneo. Pascal is at work...

[@ariellalester]

Thank you so much, stumbled across this channel trying to find more info on Pothos Barberanus, but found myself completely in awe of this field trip. Just subscribed and looking forward to catching up on your prior trips.

[@creaturefree]

Yes, I love Pothos barbarianus for the texture and color of its leaves. It is a quite common species in Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo but most often difficult to detect because of its brown leaves often covered with mosses and algae.

[@sdqsdq6274]

borneo and png has to be the unspolit rainforest ?

[@ungescape8414]

Does a video from the Highlands come too?

[@creaturefree]

Bonjour, no, the next films will concern the lowland forests of eastern Sabah. In fact, I climbed to the summit of Kinabalu in 1976 and 1984 while I was student in botany at the Paris university. Of course, the higher mountain forests are a paradise for plants, especially Rhododendrons, Elatostema, Nepenthes, orchids... But now, the ascent has become a highway for tourists !

[@eliseolopez2790]

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