Pan di diabel and Guyaba baster

The small Noni-like is locally known as "pan di diabel" (Morinda royoc). 

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The small apples are the "Guyaba baster" (Casearia tremula). 

Beware! Probably both are poisonous. 

The many colors of Curaçao

Hato, North coast.
A collection of small plants and flowers on rocks of lava and coral tuff.
In the afternoon, the sun makes all colors shine.

Drought

The rainy season brought just a few showers. 

And then, no rain in over three month. 

The many colors of the Hato plains.

Lokale bomen- en plantennamen - local names of trees, flowers and plants

 Marie Pompoen ( kabes di Maricu ), Matelea rubra

Wilde Salie ( Welensalie)

Watakeli ( Beshi di llora-Prikichi )

Mata Sanger ( Lantana Camara )

Oliba

Kokolode

Datura ( Yerba Stinki )

Guaba bastard.

Bonchi Indian.

Barbol di Junckuman ( Trots van de Jonker )

Open gebarsten Marie pompoen.

Zaaddoos van de Palu di Lechi.

Wayaca.

Manzanillaboom.

Tabebuia chrysantha

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Clusia.

Zaaddoos Clusia. 

Kaya Kaya.

Enfrau ( lidcactus in bloei met vrucht. )

Bolcactus ( Melon di Seru ).

Bromelia

Clitoria ternatea

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Foto's: G.K.

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".