In the summer of 1995, Sabu Pung, then a student at Taitung Teachers College, who was born and grew up in Taniao, returned to the village. But this time she wasn't just coming back on holiday to see her family. She also began to record and to distinguish various types of plants currently or previously used in community life.
民國八十四年秋天，在此出生、成長的台東師範學院學生潘世珍，回到村落，不同的是，過去假日回部落是與家人團聚，這回她還開始記錄、辨識部落生活中仍被使用、與被生活逐漸遺落的各種植物。