Roadside Vegetation

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Cacti overgrown by the Palu di Leche, rubber-vine

Road to Daaibooi Bay

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Wabi tree

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Palu di Leche - Rubber-vine. Imported to Curaçao for rubber exploitation. That did never work out. Now the plant is everywhere, climnbing and killing plants and trees.

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Agave

Colorful Vine

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Orange climbing plant with thin, long stems

The flower of the Palu di Leche.

Tuturutu plant


After heavy rainfall, vines and other climbing plants overgrow the shrubs and trees. When it gets drier, the vines shrink to dry, dead stems.
Maybe they prevent the trees growing too big in wet times, and so prevent them from dying in dry times.
The rubber-vine Palu di Leche, which has a lot of flowers in the wet season, lives on in the dry season (without flowers). It is unstoppable in its growth and strangles any plant or tree that it "embraces".