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Fruits
Along Bali's roads and crowding its markets, stand sell all manner of fruits of strange colors, shapes, and sizes. The visitor's first encounter with Bali's exotic fruits will probably be in a fruit salad at one of the innumerable tourist restaurants. All the usual varieties known in tropical Asia are grown on ". plus about 20 or so grown nowhere else. For a description of these fruits, instructions on how to eat them, their Balinese names, and when they come into season, see the "Food" section.

Flowers

The majority of the delightful flowers you see on Bali are not native but have been introduced from around the world, imported in recent times or centuries ago by Dutch or Indian traders. Due to altitude variations, rainfall pattern, temperatures, and humidity, there's a wide variation in the types of flower bloom from month to month on Bali. The variety is astounding: the bright orange dadap used in every cremation procession; the pure-white capaka, with a strong long-lasting fragrance; the hardy, colorful bougainvillea (kertas); the rose (maya); common gardenia (jempiring); and hydrangea ( pacah seribu); clusters of sweet-smelling white, pink, and red frangipani blossoms; the large-leafed, floating water lily or lotus; poinsettias; the spiked tumbak raja, the star-shaped, lavender manori; the jasmine (menuh), a symbol of holiness; the common marigold (mitir); the trumpet-shaped hibiscus (pucuk), which comes in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and adorns the ears of temple statues.
In addition there's a great variety of flowering trees and shrubs: acacia trees, ornamental kenyeri (oleanders); the bright orange African tulip trees; the spectacular flame tree (merak), the stately kepuh trees which populate Balinese cemeteries; the Singapore rhododendron, the firecracker hibiscus, the kecubung, keduk-duk, sabita-the list goes on and on!
Flowers are always in demand, offerings in a great number of Balinese ceremonies, a way of providing a pleasing environment for spirits and ancestor during their frequent visit to Earth, or simply worn behind the ear. And flower fragrances especially adored by the Balinese and their gods. Before a bemo driver sets out for the day his wife or daughter prepares for him a floral offering (canang) and each time a Balinese prays, he holds a flower between his fingers.
The best place to see flowers is in the front yards and living fences of private homes; ask the proprietor to take you an a botanical tour of your hotel or home stay garden. Nusa Dua hotels and Hotel Tanjung Sari in Sanur are known for their brilliant year-round floral displays. Village markets all have flower stalls which sell flowers for offerings. Also visit the big nurseries of Niti Mandala in East Denpasar. The Lila Graha Botanical Gardens in Candi Kuning has a well-presented collection or orchids and exotics; take a walk down the gardens sylvan paths by turning west at the sign jug south of the Candi Kuning fruit and vegetable pasar, The dazzling flower market at Candi Kuning and the grounds of the Bali Handara Country Club, both in the Bedugul area, are definitely worth visiting. Behind the Candi Kuning market are dozens of stall selling indigenous flowers at very good prices (if you bargain). By the side of the road from Mengwi up to Candi Kuning flowers grow profusely. Also see the orchid nursery near Blahbatuh in Gianyar Regency; we in the West are used to paying high prices for orchids, but in the tropics they are cheap and abundant. If you car find it in a hotel bookstore or toko buku, get a copy of Fred and Margaret Eiseman's well researched Flowers of Bali, containing 35 color photos of Bali's native flower

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in Bali we must point out a very important distinction which the Balinese make between two clearly separate groups of ancestors. The first of these groups consists of the dead who are riot yet completely purified. This group is in turn subdivided in pirata, those riot yet cremated, and pitara, those already cremated. The former are still completely impure; the latter have been purified, but are still considered as distinct, individual souls. The second group consists of the completely purified ancestors who are considered as divine.
No contact is sought with the pirata, the dead who have not yet been cremated. Oil the contrary they are dangerous, Offerings must however be made for the redemption of their souls.

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