Take the thyme to say ‘aloe.

From a gum tree in Australia, sap oozes. Not runs, flows, drips. Sap only ever oozes.

Some kind of nice purple flower, Wilsons Prom Ntional Park, Australia.

Seeds bursting into life in Wilsons Prom National Park, Australia.

Cebu, Philippines, in the hills behind Cebu City.

More from the hills of Cebu.

I spent a wonderfully peaceful night at the Butterfly Farm on Bohol, near the Tarsier Sanctuary.

Initially they were reluctant to rent me the bungalow because they thought it was run down.

But it was far nicer than plenty of places I had stayed before!

As well as butterflies, there was a wonderful garden full of orchids and other flowers.

The tarsier sanctuary also had a few orchids.

Near Bohol, Philippines' tarsier sanctuary, a short but seldom used hiking trail through regrowth forest.

A native lotus flower blooms in northern Victoria, in the waters of the Gunbower Creek.

Cockatoos, parrots and other birds make their homes in the hollows of old and dead trees, like this gum tree on the Gunbower Creek.

Archeologists left the temple of Ta Prohm much as they found it, reclaimed by the jungle. The power of nature displayed in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Highly symbolic in Buddhism, lotus flowers in a pond, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Moss covered trees on a hike in Biogradska Gora, a superb part of Montenegro's mountains.

Extraordinary colours on a tree in the hills of Chiang Dao, north of Chiang Mai, Thailand

A big ol' fig tree in Khao Yai National Park- a good spot for spotting gibbons.

Some kind of fungi, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.

Determined trees cling to a cliff face in southern Thailand's Nang Panthurat Forest Park.

Deep in the north-east hills of India, bridges have been made by manipulating the tree roots across rivers for centuries.

Small groves of trees and bushes grow on top on WA's famous Wave Rock.

Forested hills in Peak Charles National Park, in the south-east of Western Australia,

Silk-cotton, or kapok, trees are native to South America, but this monster in Lalbagh Gardens, in India's Bangalore, may be the largest in the world.