Showing posts with label Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Island. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Dendrobium batanense, first blooming in my garden

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I brought this Dendrobium back in the spring out of curiosity.  The plant adapted well to the climatic conditions in my gard...
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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Psychilis monensis some observations of plants "in situ"

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This form has a flat open flower with green sepals and petals Cream colored flowers Yellowish nodding, slightly cupped flow...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Domingoa haematochila (Rchb. f.) Carabia 1943, in situ in Mona Island in the Caribbean

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This flower opened in the morning after a spell of strong rain A whole plant view.  This plant had five inflorecenses, two with fl...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Mona Island, Cueva del Lirio, AEB trip circa 1982

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A land's view from an area near Cueva del Lirio, you can see in the top left corner the ship Alborada that had ran aground on the ree...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Mona Island, the amazing sight of waterfalls on a dry deserted island, AEB field trip 1980.

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Water falling from the 200 feet tall cliffs in the area of Pajaros beach We tried to fend off the water with anything that we could fi...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Mona Island, cave pearls, circa 1984, AEB field trip.

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These are cave pearls from a cave in the Island of Mona, a small island about fifty miles to the west of the Island of Puerto Rico.  Mona ...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

The goats on Mona Island back in 1979, ABE field trip

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A startled goat running at full tilt through the scrubby vegetation in alocation a few hundred feet south of the Mona lighthouse Part...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Mona Island Sardinera Beach coral reef, circa 1982

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Acropora palmata coral was abundant all over the Sardinera reef and  it would grow almost up to the water surface near the reef crest....
Thursday, March 31, 2011

1980 Mona Island, a happy smile in an awful spot, a memory from my AEB times

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This is a photo of one of my dearest friends.  It was taken during a trip to Mona Island 1980.  I can hardly believe that thirty one y...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Puerto Rican parrot, Amazona vittata, a smile of hope

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One of the ten most endangered species of parrot in the world, the PR parrot is the focus of an intense effort to restore its populations....