Monday, April 19, 2021

Green Our Earth, Save Our Future Generations - Tree Planting Programme at Kinta Heights on 22 April 2021

April 19 2021: Lions Club of Perak Silver State and Ipoh City Watch will jointly organise the Tree Planting programme in conjunction with World Earth Day on 22 April 2021 starting at 8.30am.

The programme is supported by Ipoh City Council as part of its objective of planting 1,500 trees this year. This is also part of the Perak State aspiration of planting 100 million trees in Malaysia in 5 years.




Four trees will be planted here to provide shade to senior citizen. This is in addition to the 29 trees already been planted here by Ipoh City Council since it was build 30 years ago giving a total of 33 trees.

The tree planting effort forms part of World Earth Day 2021 with the theme "Restore Our Earth". We want our future generations to enjoy the natural environment besides helping to lower earth temperature so as to prevent disaster and hardship to poorly who are expected to be badly affected by serious impact of climate change in 30 years time. 


YB Sivasubramaniam A/L Athinarayanan, State Assemblyman for Buntong is our guest of honour. Also present include Clr Mohamad Iskandar Abdul Rahman who will also plant a tree. The other two trees will be planted by Clr. Dr. Richard Ng, who is also the President of Lions Club of Perak Silver State and Ipoh City Watch and Datuk Dr. Denison Jeyasooria, Head of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Malaysia (APPGM) Secretariat on sustainable development goals.





These trees planted will be given a QR code with serial number as follows:

Tree  # 1

Tree Serial Number: LCPSS-MBI/ 019/04/21

Family Name: Caesalpinia ferrea now known as Libidibia ferrea or Brazilian Iron Wood

Genus: Libidibia

Common Name: Brazilian Iron Wood

Height: 15m to 25m

Planted by: Clr. Dr. Richard Ng, Ipoh City Councillor cum President of Lions Club of Perak Silver State and President of Ipoh City Watch

Date Planted: 22 April 2021

Place: Pangsapuri Kinta Heights, Ipoh, Perak

Programme name: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations / World Earth Day 2021

Tree  # 2

Tree Serial Number: LCPSS-MBI/ 020/04/21

Family Name: Caesalpinia ferrea now known as Libidibia ferrea or Brazilian Iron Tree

Genus: Libidibia

Common Name: Brazilian Iron Wood

Height: 15m to 25m

Planted by: Datuk Denision Jeyasooria, Head of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Malaysia (APPGM) Secretariat  

Date Planted: 22 April 2021

Place: Pangsapuri Kinta Heights, Ipoh, Perak

Programme name: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations / World Earth Day 2021

Tree  # 3

Tree Serial Number: LCPSS-MBI/ 021/04/21

Family Name: Tecoma (Bignoniaceae)

Genus: Tecoma

Common Name: Tecoma

Height: 15m to 25m

Planted by: YB Sivasubramaniam A/L Athinarayanan, State Assemblyman for Buntong 

Date Planted: 22 April 2021

Place: Pangsapuri Kinta Heights, Ipoh, Perak

Programme name: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations / World Earth Day 2021


Tree  # 4

Tree Serial Number: LCPSS-MBI/ 022/04/21

Family Name: Tecoma (Bignoniaceae)

Genus: 

Common Name: Tecoma

Height: 15m to 25m

Planted by: Clr. Mohamad Iskandar Abdul Rahman, Ketua Bahagian PPBM Ipoh Barat

Date Planted: 22 April 2021

Place: Pangsapuri Kinta Heights, Ipoh, Perak

Programme name: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations / World Earth Day 2021



Description of Caesalpinia ferrea now known as Libidibia ferrea or Brazilian Iron Wood:




Most species of Caesalpinia s.l. have poorly defined growth rings, with isolated vessels arranged in radial multiples. Pitting between vessels is alternate and covered, and fibres are generally not divided by a septum. The axial (i.e., longitudinal) parenchyma varies from a winged shape to confluent, and is irregularly storied (i.e., layered), while the rays (perpendicular to growth rings) are of variable height and generally comprise a single or double cell width.[2] Libidibia in particular has layered longitudinal parenchyma and narrow homocellular (i.e., of uniform type) rays without crystals in the ray cells

Its wood is often used for making fingerboards for electric basses and guitars. It has a similar feel and similar tonal attributes to rosewood, but is harder and has a slightly lighter colour.[4] The wood may also be used for flooring, fancy furniture, and handgun grips. It is also known by the names morado, palo santo, caviuna, Brazilian ironwood, and Bolivian rosewood, though it is not actually rosewood.

In guitar making, pau ferro is mainly used for fingerboards and bridges. Some luthiers also use it for the back and sides of acoustic guitars. The Brazilian guitar company Giannini uses laminated pau ferro in many of their classical guitars.[5] Although similar in many ways to rosewood, pau ferro has slightly different qualities: Its colouration ranges from coffee brown to yellow brown and purple. The tonal characteristics are said to be between rosewood and ebony, with a slightly "snappier" sound, being "slightly brighter than rosewood but with the same depth and warmth".

Fender has utilized pau ferro on many of their instruments in recent years due to the increasing cost of rosewood due to CITES laws.[6] The Stevie Ray Vaughan Signature Fender Stratocaster was one of the company's first instruments to feature a pau ferro fingerboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libidibia_ferrea

Description of Tecoma Tree:




Tecoma is a genus of 14[3] species of shrubs or small trees in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae. Twelve species are from the Americas, while the other two species are African. The American species range from the extreme southern United States through Central America and the Antilles south through Andean South America to northern Argentina. The generic name is derived from the Nahuatl word tecomaxochitl, which was applied by the indigenous peoples of Mexico to plants with tubular flowers.[4] Trumpetbush is a common name for plants in this genus.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecoma

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