Normally I take a dim view of anything found on the basil plants, but this little gold dust day gecko was inordinately cute. It wasn’t doing the plant any harm and might even have helped by snapping up a bug or two.
Category Archives: Plants
Abstracts: Kiholo branches
A tangle of curly branches forms a dense thicket along the shore near Kiholo Bay.
Rose jatropha
Rose jatropha (Jatropha integerrima) is an ornamental shrub from Cuba with showy red flowers. Bees were all over this plant.
Cattleya orchid
I think this is a cattleya orchid, growing on the trunk of a lychee tree. This particular tree has two or three other epiphytes, plants that grow on other plants, on its trunk.
Green anole on red leaves
This green anole does not blend in well on these red leaves, but that’s the point. He’s vigorously declaring this territory to be his.
For more information about green anoles, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_anole.
Donkey tree?
I’ve heard of monkey trees, but is this a donkey tree? Donkey in a tree? Actually, it’s a donkey under a tree, staying out of the sun.
Mangoes
In February this mango tree was in full bloom (top). Those blooms have become the bevy of fruit below. When the wind blows the thud of falling mangoes is a constant sound. I tend to duck my head into my shoulders walking under the tree.
It’s a twice a day routine to pick up the fallen fruit, or the wild pigs will make short work of them.
Fiery skipper butterfly
A fiery skipper butterfly, Hylephila phyleus, dips its proboscis into a passion flower.
