Once again I wish you a very warm welcome to Bettawan. My name is Wan and I am from Thailand, my daughters name is Min and my husband who is from the UK is called Jeff. We live in a little rice/sugarcane village in the middle of Thailand. We are surrounded by rice and sugarcane fields, mountains and jungle. We recently bought some land and built a small home / work area and a Dry shed where I store all the gathered leaves in raised bays to dry out along as storing other dry goods.
My father has always used Indian Almond Leaves ( Terminalia Catappa ), Teak Leaves ( Tectona Grandis ) and Banana leaf ( Musa Balbisiana ) for conditioning and well being of his bettas, ever since he was introduced to them by a couple of his Thai betta breeder friends, from the village where we live.
Around our village, grow several Indian Almond Trees, that have been established there for many years and were we gather the leaves from. No insecticides whatsoever are used on the trees that we gather from.