Exora Proton latest MPV named after Ixora

The latest model of Proton car is called Exora, named after Ixora, the flame of the wood. Proton Exora MPV which is a few years in the making, will be available for booking on Fri Feb 20, 2009 and likely to be priced below RM80K.


Proton Exora unvieled.


Latest photo of Proton Exora - Theophilus Chin


New Proton Exora


Ixora coccinea flower

I think Exora is a nice name considering that Proton has baptised its previous cars with awful name as "waja", "saga", "juara", "gen2" and I-forgot-the-pickup-name.

For the latest photos or pictures of the new Proton Exora MPV, check out the following links:
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* Proton MPV, latest pictures

Related posts:
* Ixora Petal And Water Droplets
* Ixora coccinea flower, Flame of the Woods, Jungle Flame


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Dragon Fly - Series#3

Photo of a tropical Dragonfly from Borneo perched on an Ixora leave.



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* Tropical Dragonfly - Series #2
* Tropical Red Dragonfly - Series #1

Green fly

A green (lime green) fly. It's not a common housefly. It's not a bottle green fly. It look similar to a blowflies. Only the fly's abdomen is lime green. The rest of it's body parts are black.



Some thought that Aphids are green fly. Well, Aphids are usually green and usually in a group.

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* Housefly Sex, Series #2
* Adventure of two flies (Fi and Fo)

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Ixora berry

Photo of Ixora's berry.



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* Ixora Petal And Water Droplets
* Ixora coccinea flower, Flame of the Woods, Jungle Flame

Tropical Venus Flytrap in Borneo

The Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey—mostly insects and arachnids. Its trapping structure is formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves and is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces. When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves comes into contact with one or more of the hairs twice in succession, the trap closes. The requirement of redundant triggering in this mechanism serves as a safeguard against the spurious expending of energy toward trapping other, non-living things which may not reward the plant with similar nutrition.





The Venus Flytrap is a small plant, forming a rosette of four to seven leaves, which arise from a short subterranean stem that is actually a bulb-like object. Each steam reaches a maximum size of about three to ten centimeters, depending on the time of year; longer leaves with robust traps are usually formed after flowering. Flytraps that have more than 7 leaves are colonies formed by rosettes that have divided beneath the ground.

The leaf blade is divided into two regions: a flat, heart shaped photosynthetic capable petiole, and a pair of terminal lobes hinged at the midrib, forming the trap which is the true leaf. The upper surface of these lobes contains red anthocyanin pigments and its edges secrete mucilage. The lobes exhibit rapid plant movements, snapping shut when stimulated by prey. The trapping mechanism is tripped when prey items stumble against one of the three hair-like trichomes that are found on the upper surface of each of the lobes.

The trapping mechanism is so specialized that it can distinguish between living prey and non-prey stimuli such as falling raindrops; two trigger hairs must be touched in succession or one hair touched twice, whereupon the lobes of the trap will snap shut in about 0.1 seconds. The edges of the lobes are fringed by stiff hair-like protrusions or cilia, which mesh together and prevent large prey items from escaping. (These protrusions, and the trigger hairs, are probably homologous with the tentacles found in this plant’s close relatives, the sundews.) The holes in the meshwork allow small prey to escape, presumably because the benefit that would be obtained from them would be less than the cost of digesting them. If the prey is too small and escapes, the trap will reopen within 12 hours. If the prey moves around in the trap, it tightens and digestion begins more quickly.

Speed of closing can vary depending on the amount of humidity, light, size of prey, and general growing conditions. The speed with which traps close can be used as an indicator of a plant's general health. Venus Flytraps are not as humidity dependent as are some other carnivorous plants, such as Nepenthes, Cephalotus, most Heliamphora, and some Drosera.

Photo location: Jln Stakan, Kuching

Joyriding dogs

Photo of three dogs on a pickup truck taking a joyride. Lucky dogs.



The joyriding dogs were spotted at Kpg Quop/10th Mile Bazaar junction, Kuching.