Monthly Archives: February 2009
Palo Blanco – White Stick or Pole
Palo blanco is a shrub or small tree to 8 m tall. It is freely branched. the leaves have short petioles, the leaf blades are lance-shaped. The inflorescences are terminal corymbs; there are 21-27 florets in the flower head. The involucre is bell-shaped. The 5 petals form a salverform, slender tube, and it has branched styles. It is distributed through much of the neotropics.
Wind Damage
The winds earlier this month caused more damage than a downed Miconia tree, and the damage was more extensive than I realized until I compared the most severely injured area with an earlier photograph. Here are the before (November 2008) … Continue reading
Darwin’s Day
In celebration of the 200th birthdays of both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, the sandpaper plant burst forth in bloom again today, this time attracting a new beetle. The image is not as well focused as I would like, but … Continue reading
Balsa
When a tree along the roadside comes into bloom, it always catches my eye, and I always think, “I have to come back and look at this more closely, and take pictures.” I don’t take my “photo-journalism” trips nearly as … Continue reading
