The photo above actually shows 3 different plant species growing together next to the First Tower of the Belalong Canopy Walkway. The thin liana with the tiny leaves and fruit like globes is a Dischidia ant plant. The green globes are hollow inside and evolved to host ants. The Dischidia grows roots inside the globes which obtain nutrients from the waste food and faeces created by the ants. The Dischidia liana is twining around a mistletoe Ginalloa arnottiana which is parasitising a terminal branch of a giant forest tree Dipterocarpus verrucosus. (Plant life in Borneo can get very complicated !)
PLANTS of the BELALONG CANOPY WALKWAY 