🌿 Get to know "Kale Hermit," the green gem of the Ivory Tone Forest. 🐘

Today it takes everyone to look at the wood from the Tone Ivory Wildlife Sanctuary, whose name may sound like a kitchen garden vegetable, but it's actually a herbaceous tree hiding in the rainforest.

Kale is a herbaceous plant, plump, thick, up to 30 centimeters high, a circular leaf, ovate or parallel edge, crooked, 5-25 centimeters long, pointed end, one-sided round polyp, sawtooth edge, sporadic leaf plate below, petiole 1-4 centimeters long.

A single row of bouquets, 1-2 bouquets, 3-5 centimeters long, or out on short leaf axils, a bouquet stalk shorter than the bouquet axis, two rows of flowers, stemless, wide-back, thin, 5-9 millimeters long.

The calyx tube is 4-6 millimeters long, joined by the ovary, with five walls, between the compartments of the glands, five calyx, unequal size, cascading, oval, 2-2.5 millimeters long, durable, sporadic furry.

Oval-back petals, about 3 millimeters long, 5 male pollen, attached between the petals, anther stalks about 1 millimeter long, anthers attached at the base, pointed ends, ovaries under the lobe, with 2 compartments, plasenta around the common axis, many ovules, short female stamens stalks, thick.

The cylindrical pollen peak is about 1 millimeter long, with 5 ridge streaks. The fresh fruit-like fruit has many seeds, dry, unbroken, oval, 8-9 millimeters long.

It is found in Myanmar, the Malayan Peninsula and southern Thailand from low down, up in the wetlands, up to about 500 meters.

Thanks to information and images from Ton Ivory Wildlife Sanctuary, Songkhla and Stool Provinces, 6th Conservation Area Administration Bureau (Songkhla)

# Kale # Rare wood descriptions # Tone Ivory Wildlife Sanctuary # Songkhla # Stool