Katuna di seda, Katoenplant (local name: cotton plant) - Calotropisprocera

These big balls will open and many seed will fly away. 

Katuna di seda, seed, cought in a basket

Flowers

The leaves of this plant were used to feed cows.

Empty seed ball

Young Trupial Kacho - Icterus nigrogularis.

Beans of the Wabi tree.

Parakeet feeding in a Wayaka tree

Flowers and Visitors

Saffron Finches having breakfast

Saffraan Vinken aan het ontbijt

Appeldam fruit

The tree

The apples. Real size. Good taste, but quite a big pit.

Appeldam boom




[ Zizyphus spina-christi - Appeldam. Bron: http://www.agniveda.com/plantenlijst-LNES.pdf ]

What on earth, are we walking on?

While following the trails, our feet trample tiny things, like sand, grit, seeds, miniscule skeletons, shells, sticks.

Close-up pictures by Femia Cools

And busy ants.

Olijfi?

photo: Germen Kroeger

Divi divi - Watapana

foto: F.Cools

Watakeli (2)

Watakeli overgrown by vines in the wet season.

photos: F.Cools
More of the Watakeli:
Flower of the Watakeli