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The Numbers Game #119

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A pair of yellow tang dance in the sunlight
Yellow Tangs in a courtship display I think.

The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 241. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A hapuu fern on the Big Island
A Hapu‘u fern.
A rock on the North Kohala coast, which looks like a guard dog
I call this Guard Dog Rock!
Bathtub rings on the walls of Puapo'o lava tube
Ranger Dean points out bathtub rings in Puapo’o Lava Tube in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
A mud puddle dries on the Big Island
A drying mud puddle.
An ironwood tree with its cascading foliage
An Ironwood tree.
An Assassin Bug!

Ironwood

An ironwood tree with its cascading foliage
The Common Ironwood (Casuarina equisetifolia) is something of an invasive weed. It has, in my book, two distinguishing features. The first is the creaking noise it makes when the wind blows, which can be an eerie sound at times. The second is its foliage, which, under the right conditions, looks like a cascade of water.

For more information about Ironwoods, go to wildlifeofhawaii.com/flowers/774/casuarina-equisetifolia-common-ironwood/.