tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47476042300454363422024-03-13T22:45:42.912+08:00Pure Oxygen GeneratorsPhilippines tropical plants, flowers, vegetables and trees giving us pure, clean air for our breath of lifeAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848957958059476177noreply@blogger.comBlogger342125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747604230045436342.post-55247972356585594852020-12-10T13:26:00.000+08:002020-12-10T13:26:57.482+08:00Chasing Butterflies<div class="separator">Admiration for butterflies has long been my hobby. That is coupled with taking their photos whenever time allows. This hobby will not be complete without the other, as the fulfillment of being a butterfly hobbyist is having a lot of their photographs stored in your files. Some good shots are made into the owner's screen saver and others even have their favorite shots printed and laid in picture frames. Sometimes, a nice picture even makes a lovely greeting card for some friends. The possibilities of using butterfly pictures are endless, and fans range from children to the children once.</div>
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Other people with entrepreneurial inklings raise butterflies for sale, and even for export. These days, weddings, thanksgivings, birthdays, baptisms, anniversaries, you name it, and many affairs use butterflies as symbols of happiness. They release the butterflies at specific moment in the program to commemorate whatever theme they are celebrating. Release of butterflies can even signify many meanings, but mostly freedom, peace, tranquility, beauty, forgiveness, accomplishment, Every symbol for butterfly release denotes positive meanings, just as the flapping of the wings signify.<br />
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My fondness for butterflies give an extra meaning for me. I chase them, photograph them in my garden, in our vicinity and in some undomesticated areas with the hope of documenting all the Species Total Count in our town. The happiness of finding one species not yet in the original list gives a certain high, a certain euphoria that might not be relatable for other people. I hope to publish the species photos in a book, but if it will not materialize, then at least others will find them in any other forms, when my curtain closes. At the least they are included in the website of Philippine Lepidoptera. I have them tabulated in matrix, alphabetically arranged with corresponding host plants for their larvae. They are all real as they are from my personal observations.<br />
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\Those are just examples of pictures i recently took from the garden. Since the pandemic i have not gone out of the house for any butterfly chasing in the vicinity. At least i have nectar plants intentionally planted to lure them in. And gardening for butterflies is another story.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1umalJOkfveU2NBGY-vT2gl-b3yL4dNf3esrCRHthNLn5eCYcIKQfeiVQX76gjxCCqSPv6l1xcvzfq5eF9ZRIjU-eUIu5_nVKd3jo3EfhXgRTAm8xzZmsEGNaKNbrMumO5lYBUlpsAU3/s800/P2071431.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1umalJOkfveU2NBGY-vT2gl-b3yL4dNf3esrCRHthNLn5eCYcIKQfeiVQX76gjxCCqSPv6l1xcvzfq5eF9ZRIjU-eUIu5_nVKd3jo3EfhXgRTAm8xzZmsEGNaKNbrMumO5lYBUlpsAU3/s320/P2071431.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggkcHgipQ8qOsIJL331onU0wOGUCtocaVd5NBe3h6tY8euGIMRy1i9Fjg74MVtrTAdJytX9CmP1kTRV9SIwC3VFRsAx5vj3Je8OmZDI9YaoJ74jmfwrFlVotqfs0HsCICoaGTiSIeg233z/s800/P2081562.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggkcHgipQ8qOsIJL331onU0wOGUCtocaVd5NBe3h6tY8euGIMRy1i9Fjg74MVtrTAdJytX9CmP1kTRV9SIwC3VFRsAx5vj3Je8OmZDI9YaoJ74jmfwrFlVotqfs0HsCICoaGTiSIeg233z/s320/P2081562.JPG" width="320" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">PALE AWLET, <i>Bibasis gomata lorquini</i><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqo7fs6wbvhTwmuql9jJ1URNc9u4_5ieNmQEL1O3CZ3fzIqAYPGyyVPJfunug4fZGuoKzW7NzDZu_9Ohv_y4PdzWtHm7gpTcvM2w1IqlajNTvh-xzqlPTXiQcKr9Jqc3j3RXqhAxrc9kex/s800/P2131911.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqo7fs6wbvhTwmuql9jJ1URNc9u4_5ieNmQEL1O3CZ3fzIqAYPGyyVPJfunug4fZGuoKzW7NzDZu_9Ohv_y4PdzWtHm7gpTcvM2w1IqlajNTvh-xzqlPTXiQcKr9Jqc3j3RXqhAxrc9kex/s800/P2131911.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqo7fs6wbvhTwmuql9jJ1URNc9u4_5ieNmQEL1O3CZ3fzIqAYPGyyVPJfunug4fZGuoKzW7NzDZu_9Ohv_y4PdzWtHm7gpTcvM2w1IqlajNTvh-xzqlPTXiQcKr9Jqc3j3RXqhAxrc9kex/s320/P2131911.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIM4m1XKhvFp14JnaI-tHT8EURiexkfTCijJoP8s183JGPsuOwuyJXCqSNrM6d639HSUfopwgEdtLglFBlI4tb3_xVssuxQZrvkc21DTJNd_VCNsAi1M2X4eceLaZKyU3hyphenhyphenvwFk8M4aRNV/s800/P2131917.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIM4m1XKhvFp14JnaI-tHT8EURiexkfTCijJoP8s183JGPsuOwuyJXCqSNrM6d639HSUfopwgEdtLglFBlI4tb3_xVssuxQZrvkc21DTJNd_VCNsAi1M2X4eceLaZKyU3hyphenhyphenvwFk8M4aRNV/s320/P2131917.JPG" width="320" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">GLASSY TIGER, <i>Parantica vitrina vitrina</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Post Script</span></i></b>: I have lots and lots of butterfly pphotos, but blogging after more than a year of not posting gave me lots of difficulties in picture layout. Oh My God i behave like the first time in 2008 when i did my first post. I hope i still regain my patience of repeatedly previewing, editing again and again. My finished post here is not to the best of my liking, but ....here it is, a new beginning!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>
<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848957958059476177noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747604230045436342.post-80490482659505382022019-10-30T18:36:00.000+08:002019-10-30T18:36:13.404+08:00In Focus: Hoya diversifolia on Trees<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i>Hoya diversifolia</i></b> being endemic to the Philippines, love the climate of the country. That is a given and just like any other plant when given the conditions it needs will flourish and give the collector endless joys and satisfaction. I have read many times in Facebook posts some collectors and hobbyists' experiences about Hoya diversifolia. My curiosity was triggered when someone said that her plant has been with her for 25 years, but has not rewarded her with flowers. I was not only curious, i was intrigued. And i almost pity the collector for tending the plant for that long without any results, and daily she was just waiting. Being impatient, i guess that will not happen with me! I've said many times that i am patient only inside the doctor's clinic, where probably the word patient originated. I never mind that virtue, not one of my stronger virtues anyway. <br />
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Another fact about my <b><i>Hoya diversifolia</i></b> that makes it more interesting at least for me, is that it was my first hoya given by no other than the former hoya authority in the country, Dr. Monina Siar. She was a friend in the university, became a hoya collector and responsible for naming most of the hoyas endemic here. She even had a hoya named after her, Hoya siariae, but she died of cancer a few years ago in her 40s. So you will understand my predicament with this hoya species, and my need for it to flower earlier than what others experienced.<br />
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I grow the small plant given to me in a pot, let it hanging as most hobbyists do. I took a cutting and planted in the 2nd pot. After one year I was already jittery, as it is growing well with very long internodes, but no trace of peduncles at all. I told you i am impatient. I let the 2nd plant climb the lanzones tree in front of the house, as it is not giving us good fruits anyway, because of bark borers. It looked so happy climbing vigorously untill some stems reached the top and sunny side of the tree. I realized it wanted direct sunlight from sunrise to sunset. So i just let it be, doing what it wants. I never give it any fertilizers nor watering during the dry months. Leaves just yellowed and a bit shrunken but recover fast when the rainy months came. After two years on the tree it gave a lot of flowers, this year is its 4th year on the tree. The pictures will tell you a lot of information, no need for me to talk anymore.<br />
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848957958059476177noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747604230045436342.post-52577920745097998962019-10-14T14:44:00.001+08:002019-10-18T11:17:44.934+08:00October 2019 BloomsMy last month's promise of posting more has not been fulfilled. I am so sorry for that. My consciousness just get more busy at the middle of the month for the Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. The rest of the months i just do my usual garden chores, photo editing for FB and of course chatting with friends. Chatting with garden friends by creating articles have been shelved for new means of social media. But i am by habit still here for the monthly GBBD.<br />
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We are so thankful this year that no very strong typhoons are passing by our country's Area of Responsibility. Some were affected by the strong rains that come with typhoons at the Pacific, but at least they did not come directly to us, just like the previous years. So our plants and domestic crops are spared, and we have our household vegetable gardens giving us harvests. We cannot even finish the fruits of our few plants like okra, ampalaya, malunggay and sweet potato tops. My hoya plants are also not suffering setbacks due to strong winds from the strong typhoons.<br />
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Our area is not flat, so this area we put some blocks to contain the soil at the other side. I purposely did not put cement finish to that short wall because the green moss during the rainy season is a pleasant scene to see. That length is normally fully green this time of the year. I only planted a few <i style="font-weight: bold;">Portulaca oleraceae </i>for contrast.<br />
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Flowers of the orange Portulaca change hues from opening to senescense, which is only a full day.</div>
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the reproductive parts of the cosmos flower</div>
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My red cosmos is still from a friend from the southern part of the country. I guess this color is common abroad in colder countries but not here. It could have been brought by friends from abroad, and i asked some seeds from her garden. The usual colors here in the country are the yellows and orange. But this red is truly a lovely addition to any garden, besides it is also loved by butterflies. </div>
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the inflorescence is still lovely at the end of its blooming period</div>
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We have a big plant of this Queen of the Night, <b><i>Epiphyllum oxipetalum</i></b>. The first big batch of flowers opened at the same time when i was not at home in August. I was so disappointed i did not see them opening simultaneously in one night. I can also just imagine the fragrance permeating the atmosphere that night, as they normally start producing scent at about 7 pm until the flowers close after midnight. This month, as if to assuage my curiosity, a lone flower emerged. I waited till the flower fully opened just to take photos, and my waiting was rewarded.<br />
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Another plant that is plenty under some trees near the edge of our house is this <b><i>Crossandra infundibuliformis</i></b>. It also has a yellow form. They do not fully die during the dry season, because they have enlarged storage roots that keep them alive, and will emerge alive again come rainy months. That ensures its continuity nearing invasiveness. They are difficult to kill because of the dense storage roots.<br />
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Another very prominent foliage plant in dry climates is this Sanchezia speciosa. They have tubular small flowers, but i prefer the beauty of their leaves. A dead spot in a garden can be enlivened by this plant. In mine, i planted it at the bottom of a jackfruit tree to cover the sickly trunk attacked by bark borers. That tree i used as a live trellis for the garlic vine. With this foliage the area looks lively and healthy despite the dying tree.<br />
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One of the most conspicuous flowering plant in October is this Hoya diversifolia, which i allowed to climb an almost dying lanzones tree. It has been there for 4 years and the most prolific flowering is now. I need to climb the roof of the first floor to get the pictures but i managed, i just go out of the window at the 2nd floor. Some nodes are even bearing 2 or 3 umbels, and that is amazing for a hoya. I guess i am the only one in the country who has this kind of growth for this species. A full post will be done next time only for this hoya on the lanzones tree. </div>
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Our archipelagic tropical country is at the middle of our rainy season. Our plants are more lush and our gardens are usually full, if not of ornamental plants, then probably with weeds. Maybe that is talking from experience, because even if i am trying to have a decent garden i cannot cope with the growth of weeds. So be that as it may, i just change my perspective and hope that weeds protect the soil from erosion, provide food for whatever biological entity need it for existence. So, another perspective is that i allow more food available to support the food chain. That is to assuage my feeling of inadequacy in maintaining a neat garden.<br />
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Another fact that these period of climate change is giving us is the limited amount of rain even while in the rainy season. So we only get them together with typhoons! It might be an advantage that we get more than the letters of the English alphabet every year for the typhoons, meaning rains will be available for our vegetation.<br />
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Available only during the wet season - <b><i>Chrysothemis pulchella</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Pentas lanceolata</i></b> (red)</div>
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<b><i>Ixora javanica</i></b> becomes a tall bush. It is planted under some trees also as nectar plants for the butterflies. It stays as a perennial, but flowers most profusely during the rainy season. </div>
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the profusely flowering Ixora javanica does not receive any cultural management</div>
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Garlic vine, <b><i>Pachyptera aliacea,</i></b> is planted only to maximize the value of the jackfruit tree which is not fruiting anymore due to probably some disease. It now serves as a live trellis to the garlic vine</div>
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red <b><i>Cosmos bipinnatus</i></b>, is planted specifically as butterfly nectar plants</div>
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<b><i>Asystasia intrusa</i></b>, as the name implies is invasive. We just try to cut or pull the plant with the roots to lessen its growth, but it is beautiful.</div>
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its nector is loved by this male butterfly, Wanderer, <b><i>Parantica boebera boebera</i></b></div>
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a beautiful foliage of Song of India, <b><i>Dracaena reflexa</i></b></div>
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Hoyas receive more special attention in my garden, it has a hoya house and watered daily when it does not rain, sometime even twice a day when needed.</div>
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Hoya 'Viola', a well sought after hoya by the butterflies. Despite many species blooming simultaneously, the butterflies converge here. ...and i have a lot more hoya for more future posts. </div>
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Blood Lily, football lily, or <b><i>Scadoxus multiflorus</i></b> is a common sight in the tropics a few weeks after the first heavy rains following the long dry season. Our local term for it is <b>lakongha</b> or sometimes others call it <b>lapongha</b>. It actually is a bulb plant that belongs to the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. They are native of Africa and Sahara. Here in our country, it seems to be naturalized since we don't know when. </div>
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It is not very famous because they are all green leaves the whole year round. Their leaves dry during the dry season that nothing can be seen of them on the ground. I have a few mounds planted to them in the backyard, but last March when some friends asked for some bulbs, i can't easily locate them. I actually had difficulty getting some bulbs without hitting and cutting some. When the first heavy rains come, all of them sprouted. The nice thing about them is that the scapes of the flowers emerge first before the leaves. The red spheres stay upright for a whole week, before the leaves start to emerge. Then the whole full year will be devoted for the leaves accumulating energies from photosynthesizing, to nurture the next season batch of the fireballs.<br />
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the fully blooming umbels<br />
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the tips of each slender filaments are the anthers containing the pollen<br />
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a few nectaring visitors, a butterfly<br />
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those little black dots are actually stingless bees also nectaring on them<br />
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the red color now starting to be pale after 5 days of blooming<br />
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they are now starting to dehisce, and the green leaves are growing taller<br />
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At the moment they are already fully green leaves, lovely foliage luxuriantly enriching themselves. They look so vigorous seemingly palatable as salads, oh if only they can be used in green salads! But no, they will just suffice to enliven a dull corner in the garden. The more they grow leaves, the more beautiful their flowers next year will become. </div>
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luxuriously growing blood lily foliage, enlivened by caladiums</div>
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Now i am showing you some blooms after the first heavy rains in June. Rains were actually very late by one month, and we can always blame El Nino or climate change for these changes. Nevertheless, typhoons have to come and visit us, with rains as the positive consequence. Maybe if not for the typhoons, we will be as dry as the deserts.<br />
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One of the best consequences is stopping the dormancy of hippeastrum, and the flowers emerge way ahead of their leaves. They bloom only once a year, so blooming is always very special, expected and savored. I have always loved hippeastrum and they always give me a yearly high.<br />
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another sibling of my cross with H x johnsonii</div>
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another sibling of H x johnsonii</div>
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848957958059476177noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747604230045436342.post-27228254697355607822019-04-03T00:15:00.000+08:002019-04-03T00:28:04.674+08:00Our Little ForestWith my diligence to take photos of the small entities living in my garden and in the wild where i go for butterfly chasing, it is a bit easier to post for Nature Notes. I have been a bit lazy posting lately since December of last year, hopefully i can again revive my enthusiasm as i settle on my new conditions and status. I have just retired from the obliged daily 8-5 office work! I feel truly relieved with that because i think of myself as an always responsible employee, meaning no matter what, no matter how tired i must go to the office at the designated hours. Only occasional sickness limits me from those obligations and requirements. Now i am not controlled much by time anymore.<br />
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However, maybe because of our body's memory and our mind's habit conditioning , i still wake up early and sleep late. I also still do not sleep during the day, and i still feel that my time is not enough. My gardening takes the first priority, and still i have many gardening tasks still undone. Once-in-a while i can go out for butterflies, but the extreme heat even in the early morning hinders my wish to go out and look for them. Aside from my hoya and hippeastrum collections, i entered into the world of figs. And this proves to be very demanding.<br />
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So for now i will post here some of the extra pictures. But i am posting the forest this time.<br />
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I started early with this view of the sea in between the coconut trees. We are 4 km from here.</div>
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This area is at least 15 minutes walk from our house or 1 km away. This area has deep ravines but many patches are planted with coconuts. I purposely come here only to see a special plant that blooms only during the dry season, in time for the heat.<br />
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I know the position of the tree so i know which part of the area to enter. Those flowers on top are my guide. That is what i am looking for. </div>
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I veered away from the single path to the area, but i encountered a clearing which is steep and slippery due to the dried plants. These are cleared to give space for those legume trees to grow, and they in turn are fed to cattle. The angle of this land can be at 50 degrees, so i had to really take care not to slip.</div>
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One of the trees at the cleared area is this one, almost cleared of all the branches except for the top branches not to kill it totally. This practice is bad for the area, but it seems this is not included in areas with rules for the environment. Too bad. There are said to be a batch of monkeys living in this forest, and owners of coconuts say they cannot get mature nuts during the dry season as the monkeys and crows eat the coconuts while still young.<br />
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As i approach the tree, the beauty of the flowers become more visible. It is called the Palawan Cherry, cause lots of them are growing in Palawan. Some say it is not an endemic species, but it was brought in during the Spanish period so already here for centuries. We think it is a native species.<br />
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Years ago i found it flowering more profusely than this year, as shown by those few flowers.<br />
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Eventually i reached the tree, with this gnarled trunk. The broken branch can be because of the typhoons. It is a leguminous tree so a nitrogen fixer. I hope to find the pods for seeds, but i guess i am a bit early for that.<br />
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I saw some still good pods on the ground, remnants from last years fruits. I got some seeds, but not sure if they are still viable.<br />
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Some pods have this larva on the locule where the seeds are located. They eat the seeds and eventually pupated in the locule. I just do not know what they look like as adult moths.<br />
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This is a different tree nearby, with white bark and a lot of dried pods. So this is also a leguminous tree.<br />
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I also noticed a lot of seedlings that turn leaves darker, or reddish purple. It is their way way of coping with the very hot direct sun. Purple young leaves have pigments that protect the leaves from intense ultraviolet rays. Eventually these leaves turn green as they mature.<br />
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These seedlings are not like this during the other kinder months of the year. They are fully green. I always see them before because they are hosts to some butterfly larvae. I can say they are very good indicators of the intensity of the sun during our dry season.<br />
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Leaves not fully exposed to the sun are still greener. It is still early that morning, yet the leaves are already curling as a sign of deficiency in water uptake. I hope they can still wait for at least 2 more months, till the start of the rainy season. </div>
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The start of the year has not been conducive to my blogging, again. It happened before and this year the same is repeated. A lot of things have been going on simultaneously, personal, official, hobbies, etc, etc, the list goes on and on! But blogging has always been a part of my life for several years now, in fact i am here for 10 years! It helped me convey my feelings and enthusiasm about so many things. It is an avenue for me to post my pictures of so many subjects, objects, travels, and a lot more too. It helped me use my spare time or my time has helped me to do blogging. Whatever, it is already a part of my adult life, and i am not stopping, a month or 2 of absence is just like a school recess. And my recess is finished, i am again into the normal flow of things. We have officially into our Dry Season and it is already hot, leaves are already starting to be scorched but some plants reached their reproductive stage.<br />
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What else will i be posting but what is handy! Therefore i will start with the Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. I have been linking with it for many years, it is already a habit for many of us. So while our Dry Season has just started and the hot temperature starts to soar, here are my blooms.<br />
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I have a tree of this Indian Beads, it was in a pot placed on the ground, rooted and become a tree. It was like a Christmas tree full of hanging white lanterns. </div>
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My few bulbs are blooming also, although only one scape of this Eucharis grandiflora rose this month. I hope the rest will follow. </div>
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<i><b> Eucharis grandiflora </b></i>or Amazon lily<br />
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Four of my hippeastrum bloomed as a result of my flower induction. Normally they flower at the start of the rainy season. I induced dormancy for their earlier blooming.</div>
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Red Pentas lanceolata is a favorite of one butterfly, Scarlet Mormon. It is continuously blooming, but the butterfly is nowhere to be found. these days. I guess its host plant is also drying up.</div>
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a few hoyas have blooms, but the rest prefer the rainy season, <b><i>Hoya buotii</i></b> (yellow)</div>
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Hoya diversifolia on top of lanzones trees. They love it there. This hasn't stopped flowering since September last year. Sorry for the very bright picture as this was to high up from the ground.</div>
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And the star of my hoyas being a first time bloomer, Hoya macgillivrayi. The blooms lasted for 8 days. It is not endemic nor native here but from Northern Australia. </div>
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I found this draft that is exactly done today's date 5 yrs ago. This serves as my initial post for 2019. </div>
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The public barangay road circuitously divided our small property, just because the barangay captain is my mother's brother, and other owners do not want their properties diminished by the road. My father cannot reject his brother-in-law, so as destructive as it may, disregarding the other better passes, ours have more area to the road than what is left for us!</div>
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Be that as it may, the road did not give us more advantage. More than the obvious fact if decreased area, we cannot develop anything productive because it is not contiguous anymore. The area is sloping on both sides and our house is left at the center of the undulating road. The truth is disapponting, actually disgusting. But what what was left for us is just that with some resentment.<br />
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The photo taken 5 years ago of that area is still the same now. Maybe this is the only road in the barangay which is fully cool due to already tall trees on both sides. Whew!Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848957958059476177noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747604230045436342.post-77212136387457398652018-11-26T17:48:00.003+08:002018-11-26T17:51:10.765+08:00 Oxygen Generator ExemptionI am doing something not according to the Title of this blog. I have been doing this for quite sometime now. Whenever i think of posting in Nature Notes by Michelle on Mondays, i can't think of other things but oxygen generators exemptions. I looked for plants, but i cannot see unusual ones in my files. So to put things easier and faster i do this. And i am forgiving myself for doing so, as i want to post these finds just to let them be together in a single post.<br />
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Whenever i go out on weekend mornings to look for butterflies, i always see a lot of other things aside from my main purpose. Plants, insects, spiders, and other things unusual to my usual sightings are photographed and remain scattered in my files. They will just find some value if i share them with you. I know some of you are arachnophobes, or afraid for spiders, please just close this. I don't want you to be scared.<br />
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This is Nephila pilipes syn. N. maculata; Giant orb weaver<br />
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We have lots of this spider in and around our property in the province. When i do not go home on 2 consecutive weekends, even my hoya garden is inhabited by this. It is difficult to pass by its web because it is too sticky and difficult to remove your body. The threads also have bigger strands.<br />
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Look at the smiling face of the old man on the top of its head! It even has some straggly beard strands. This is in my hoya garden.<br />
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This is the same individual as the close-up shot of the first photo.<br />
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And this is the lower part of its web one morning, still complete with jew.<br />
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Another individual i saw under the trees in a secondary forest. The face already looks like a scathed old man, with some lacerations as if it had been to a recent fight. It has a more pointed nose and expressions a bit scary than the previous one.<br />
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You can almost see its size in comparison to that tree at the left. Its web in the forest is bigger than that in the hoya garden, maybe because there are lesser prey that happen to pass through it in the forest. They need to big a bigger net trap. This is the farthest distance i can take for the web to be still visible, a little farther and it is not anymore distinctly seen as a spider web.</div>
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That in the hoya garden has to be relocated to the nearby area. I let it attach to a long pole together with some parts of the sticky web, then let it drop on some plants in the relocation site. I don't know how long before it can finish weaving its full web again. I hope it manages that soonest, as if a big storm just hit it. At least i am not the human that kills entities like them! </div>
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<br />Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848957958059476177noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747604230045436342.post-51149986734538292832018-11-15T13:45:00.000+08:002018-11-15T13:48:19.900+08:00November BloomsI am maybe biased to flowers that cater to butterflies. That is my disclaimer because most of the plants you will see in this post are nectar plants, loved by butterflies, which in turn i love too!<br />
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<b><i>Asystasia intrusa</i></b> can be invasive, but i always have them for, of course you know what! But if isolated in numbers in plates like the above, they can be beautiful too.</div>
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<b><i> Pentas lanceolata</i></b> are favored by the Scarlet Mormon. They favor those in umbels because they will not leave the area for another flower, just insert their proboscis in the next flower within the umbel. Butterflies know energy conservation too.<br />
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another <b><i>Pentas lanceolata</i></b> color form, favored by the tigers</div>
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This hippeastrum is the only species that bloom more than once a year. In fact this is its 4th bloom. When under the net protection it produced 6 flowers in one scape. </div>
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This is my first time to see the flowers of <b><i>Curcuma longa</i></b> or turmeric. Actually, above are the bracts, the flowers already gone. Those almost rotten debris at the axils of the bracts are the decomposing flowers.<br />
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This is only a leaf, but it is as lovely as a bloom. It is one of the colorful caladiums. </div>
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<i><b>Hoya pubicalyx</b></i> 'Black Dragon' syn. <b><i>Hoya pubicorolla</i></b></div>
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My Garden Bloggers Blooms post is not complete without the hoyas. They are the special flowers in my garden with their own enclosure and get more attention from me and my sister at home. I just go home on weekends and i only do some jobs and taking their pictures. I confess my bias is fully with them together with butterflies!<br />
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<b><i> Hoya alwitriana</i></b> starting to open. This is one of the very few hoyas that blooms in the morning, most of them opens in the late afternoon.</div>
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<b><i>Hoya pubicalyx</i></b></div>
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The wildlife i am referring to here is not the usual wildlife most of you refer to. Mine are just areas untended for cultivation, fallowed or abandoned areas, with mixed tropical weeds and grasses, sometimes a few bushes and trees and sometimes these are even under coconut trees.<br />
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Here are a few of the unusual takes that interest my lens. For me these are already wildlife.<br />
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A group of 1st instar butterfly larvae of most probably Catopsilla pomona. There are 2 leaflets fully occupied like this. The leaf is golden shower, Cassia fistula.</div>
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These are the leaves on the 3rd day, the undersides leaf skin are fully devoured by the caterpillars, producing a lacey, artsy leaves. </div>
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Another leaflet left by the larvae, they transfered to a different leaflet, but their numbers are lesser.</div>
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This wooly insect might be the nymp of a planthopper, but i did not see its main body.</div>
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Another interesting wooly mealy bug, almost a centimeter in diameter. I am not sure if it really is a meally bug, as they are normally smaller than this. </div>
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This looks like a landscape of lichens, algae and mosses. A coconut trunk base is fully invaded by this growths. I looked for lichen moths, but i did not see any.<br />
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I often see this red fruits in our abandoned areas, or areas under coconuts. They fruit during this season. I haven't seen birds eating them. The plant are short at around a foot tall. There are only a few leaves coming out of the ground with one or 2 bunches of fruits in a clump of green leaves. I searched, it is Tacca palmata (Dioscoreaceae).<br />
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848957958059476177noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747604230045436342.post-20162297555258845742018-10-29T18:13:00.000+08:002018-10-30T09:57:32.593+08:00Poses from a Hawkmoth<br />
I am <b><i>Pergesa acteus</i></b>, a hawkmoth feeding on Alocasia, Caladium, Colocasia and Dieffenbachia. I am Filipino so those are my host plants here. I heared my cousins in other Asian countries eat some other plants. Now i am obliged by this entity to pose for her camera. She used a lot of tricks to make me assume different poses. But in reality she is depriving me some sleep as it is daytime and i am supposedly deep asleep by now. I hope with my cooperation, in a little while she will let me be!<br />
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In a few more days i will assume to be a pupa, a transition for me to be an adult moth to fly, eat, mate and produce more hawkmoths.<br />
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<br />Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848957958059476177noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747604230045436342.post-81802222574155382112018-10-25T10:25:00.000+08:002018-10-26T13:20:24.640+08:00Costus speciosus, any taker?I have long been fascinated with this plant. It has been growing for quite a long time already at the vicinity of the property, under the mango trees. Nobody is tending it, in fact it even received lots of unreasonable unattention and stressful beatings through time. These are maybe unintentional because it is growing at a sight that is used for dumping the cut plants from the garden and prunnings from nearby trees. The latest was dumping the full canopy of a big tamarind tree, when it was topped off to shorten it. So this plant is a "now-you-see-it, now-you-don't" entity! This time, it is a "Now-you-see-it" plant. And I am putting it at the limelight.<br />
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Despite the tortures it got through life, it still continue living, still continue with its purpose, still providing something for attention. I guess it succeeded because i now removed some debris covering some of its parts, cut the already long stems to grow new suckers, took lots of its pictures, and even posted its biography in this blogpost. Not a joke, but i am laughing at my thoughts just now!<br />
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Don't you think it is even more attractive?</div>
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more spiral leaves, so it is also commonly called spiral ginger</div>
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and the brightly red bracts supporting the white flowers, sideview</div>
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The internet has lots of entries lately for this plant because some believe it is what they call the insulin plant, which aids in helping those with diabetes. I am not in the position to say whether this really is the real insulin plant as there are also insulin plants here in the country with different color forms. Moreover, i also don't know if the claim by insulin plant enthusiasts for diabetes is really true. I did not search for the scientific literatures on this matter, not for me to do that. </div>
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But traditional knowledge in many countries in Asia, Southeast Asia and many literatures provide different medicinal purposes of this plant. It is not only grown as medicinal plants but also as an ornamental. </div>
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I looked at some sites selling this plant online, and the prices are not cheap by our organic plant standards here in the country. If only i can sell this, i can give them a lot and at lower prices, LOLs!</div>
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848957958059476177noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747604230045436342.post-82931630687520447262018-10-21T22:56:00.000+08:002018-10-23T10:19:41.189+08:00Nature Finds AgainI have the habit of composing my blog posts early morning Monday, fast and quick because i am just sneaking for sometime before i start my normal work. I first look at my latest pictures during that weekend and choose the nature or macro photos from there. I always have bias for either hoyas or butterflies, because they are the ones i have the addiction for. Today i am posting on Sunday night because i did not go home this weekend. The culprit is the very hot surroundings yesterday morning when i am about to go home to the province. The result is that i do not have fresh weekend photos, i did not see nor take any butterfly shots, and the hoyas are both untended and not photographed.<br />
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But never mind, i always have lots of photos from recent files. Hmmm i wish to find some shots for Nature Notes. When i am looking for butterflies my attention is always for them, but when only a few of them show up i have attention too for other entities including spiders. However, i seldom know their names.<br />
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a common jumping spider, Salticidae species</div>
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A lichen spider guarding its egg sac, it is supposed to be outside with the lichens but probably gallivanting and was trapped inside the bathroom. So it just stayed there with its egg sac. It has been there for two weeks. <span style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Pandercetes sp. (Sparassidae)</span><br />
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A spitting spider (Scytodea sp.) carrying an egg sac . I don't know if they get prey even while guarding their eggs. If only i have time to spare, i will watch them spitting on their prey.</div>
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a colorful Opadometa species</div>
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This is a very common resident of my hoya flowers, a crab spider. Very seldom will a hoya umbel be without it. They are hiding there to ambush bees and butterflies that visit the flowers.</div>
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My first time to see this one, i think unique for a spider</div>
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The owner of this web is very small hiding at the back of the central object, pretending they are big.</div>
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I still have lots of spider photos, but i can't seem to see most of them when there's the need. I am posting these to the Arachnophiles Group in FB to know their names. When ready i will put them here. Thanks much!<br />
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848957958059476177noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747604230045436342.post-1414549918093782642018-10-15T11:28:00.000+08:002018-10-19T11:00:32.336+08:00October Blooms and MoreOctober is a crucial month with us in the Philippines. It is still within the rainy season, but the rains seem to be already subsiding. The intense heat of the sun is early for the season. Even at 7 o'clock in the morning it is already hot, you can imagine how it is at noon! Yes what you are thinking is correct, the heat at noon is very unfriendly to both humans and plants. We were joking that we are already at the height of the dry season because of the intense heat. We are already waiting for the typhoon because it comes always with rains, decreasing the heat and refilling our dams for our water in Metro Manila and irrigation water for our major crops like irrigated rice. I hope the cloud formation yesterday is an indication that there will still be incoming rains.<br />
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Gardening at home in the province last Sunday morning is already difficult due to the intense sun. I did not go out for butterflies as it is so hot. I already have the wide hat, but still the heat penetrates the head. I did not wear long sleeves, so my arms and hands got darker! Oh how wonderful to be just in the office in an airconditioned room. I said that because i am now already in the office in the big city, very tired but have to work.<br />
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Now i am trying to compile some pictures of the blooms and colors i was able to take yesterday. I almost forgot again the date and GBBD.<br />
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Most of our colors come from the ornamental foliage like the Coleus blumei. I have 3 varieties and they give wonderful colors to our front yard. Above is the most lively. Can you see the very small tin can at the bottom? That is just where mother planted it, but some stems rooted on the ground, giving the full and wide clump arising from just one plant.<br />
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This above 2nd variety of Coleus blumei, mayana in our dialect, is a bit darker with more erect growth habit. It gives more subtle color but definitely gives contrast to otherwise all green surroundings.<br />
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The 3rd Coleus blumei variety is totally mauve in color, very dark but lovely too. The contrast against green is very drastic. It is not as prolific as the 1st because the container is much smaller and its other stems did not touch the ground for more roots.<br />
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Bothe above and below are from the same plant, just that the top picture are growing on the top portion receiving more direct sunlight. Picture below receives lesser direct light.<br />
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This is an ornamental pineapple, which has been growing for 2 yrs now but still not yet fruiting. But it is lovely with just the leaves, so it is more fun.<br />
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An Aglaonema hybrid also growing luxuriantly at a slightly shaded area.<br />
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Thunbergia erecta, growing inside the hoya house</div>
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My post will not be complete if hoyas are not included. They are always there with us giving lots of blooms. Above is Hoya diversifolia i let to climb the lanzones tree. Flowering season started last month and now is the profusion of the blooms. I went to the roof to get a better perspective of them.<br />
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This is the lowest portion of the vines of Hoya diversifolia, almost reaching the fence of the hoya house. Some vines reached the top of the canopy and the flowering vines are on the top left side, with their blue sky background.<br />
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Hoya nakarensis, a cute little hoya, but floriferous with lots of umbels now</div>
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If you think only flowers are blooming in my area, think again. Even a mushroom looks like a flower. It is growing at the growing point area of a coconut. That pointed shoot is the shoot primordia of the young coconut seedling. I shared this with you as i am very fascinated with an unusual mushroom to unusually grow in a very unusual area! LOL<br />
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The lanzones tree being conquered by the hoya blooms will not allow itself not be recognized and given attention. Its fruits are now ripening and in 1 - 2 weeks they are ready for human consumption. Can you see some hoya umbels at the small branch at the center of the picture, on top! I guess they are cohabiting in an ecological term called "commensalism", or they are called "commensal symbionts". Hoya benefits from the lanzones, which is not affected or benefitting from it at all. </div>
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In my regular morning walks on weekends purposely for documenting our local butterflies, i also see lots of many life forms. Most of them are new to me, i've only seen for the first time and i sometimes still have to do a great deal in identifying them or at least look for the groups of animals they belong. I normally post them in Facebook groups for proper identification. It is challenging if the find is really unusual that i still have to wait for days, and when i cannot anymore wait i also post them and ask my friends here in the blogpost.<br />
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The other weekend, i again documented a few plants, insects, spiders and others which i don't know what groups they belong with. I will be posting here first the larvae of insects, and more. Spiders need another future post.<br />
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Both the above and the lower photos are of the same moth. The above is at the pre-pupation stage or last instar of the larva, while the lower picture is the pupa. I am amazed at the disappearance of the black color in the pupa. It is the PALE GREEN AWLET, Bibasis gomata.<br />
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Honestly, i have only seen its adult just once at home. This time i hope i will be able to photograph more of them. The Schefflera plant was fully defoliated leaving only half of the individual leaf to house these pupae. Actually, there's a lot of them there. I took 2 pupae and brought them with me to the city. It has already been more than a week, but they have not eclosed yet.<br />
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The above are larvae of the MOTTLED EMIGRANT, Catopsilia pomona pomona. They prefer to eat the leaves of akapulko, Cassia alata. However, a lot of them are also eating the golden shower, Casia fistula. The akapulko plant is still small and the leaves are fully defoliated also. At least i am already familiar with them as i already tried rearing it last year until eclosion.<br />
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A single close-up of Mottled Emigrant. They normally are in company of red ants, which protect them in exchange for the food they get from them.<br />
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Above is a larva of the bark borer of lanzones. It is a very bad pest that limits lanzones production in the country. They eat the cambium layer of the tree, that cracks the bark which eventually dry. Lanzones fruits emerged from the bark, termed cauliflorous, so when the barks dried up flowers and fruits will not be possible. One distinguishing characteristics of this moth larva is to attach themselves to a string they create to hold on to, so eventualy when it is already safe again they will come up to the tree via that string. I still haven't seen also the adult of this moth. </div>
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Above is an egg of a yellow butterfly, Eurema blanda. This plant is a weed legume, that thrives well in our area. No wonder we have lots of those yellow butterflies.<br />
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The above thing has been a puzzle to me. I touched it but it didn't budge. I don't even know if it is a living organism or a debris. I checked the close-up playback in my camera and i was intrigued by the design of those leaf-like skirt. It seems to be alive. I searched and asked the Philippine Lepidoptera group and someone confirmed my feeling that it is a house of a bagmoth! Again, it is my first time to see such structure.<br />
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Lastly, these are babies too, technically called nymps of grasshoppers. They also defoliated the okra plants, because i saw two groups or patches like this, one patch per hill of 3 okra plants each hill. I am sure when they get bigger they will defoliate a lot more leaves in the vicinity. I just don't know how long will they stay here before they disperse to seek for their own food.<br />
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848957958059476177noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747604230045436342.post-50578885758953838382018-10-04T16:10:00.002+08:002018-10-05T09:36:48.049+08:00A New Nectar Plant Most of you are very familiar with my new nectar plant. This grows not only in the tropics, but also in the sub-tropical climates. This is the common cosmos, scientifically known as Cosmos bipinnatus. The most commonly growing colors in our country are the yellow and orange colors. I found them everywhere, which becomes unrully and unsightly when the leaves are drying and the seeds are already drying on the plant.<br />
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Lately, i saw a friend has this red one and the butterflies are alighting, nectaring on them. So i asked for seeds which she sent November of last year. I immediately planted them, that to my surprise they flowered immediately when they are just about less than a foot tall. Their life cycle was too short because they die after flowering. I gathered all the seeds and stored them until this years rainy season again.<br />
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To my surprise not even one seed germinated. Probably, they belong to the recalcitrant seeds that must immediately be planted upon maturity. Fortunately, there is already this seedling which was already growing when i planted the seeds. This dropped to the soil last year but got stored in the soil and germinated after a few months. I wonder why that is possible! That remains to be a question to me till now.<br />
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We can see that the plant is already very tall even prior to flowering. It is more than 6 ft tall. I searched and found that it is a very well studied plant. It is photoperiodic and the internodes elongate much as a response to long days. No wonder my seedlings last year were very short at flowering because they are planted already during the short days. Hmmm, now i can manipulate that height next time, by choosing the photoperiod desired to attain an intended internode length. That would be interesting. </div>
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By the way, i am forgetting that i got those seeds from a distant province because they are loved by her butterflies. To my surprise, i have yet to see any butterfly nectaring on my blossoms! A lot of them nectar on surrounding flowers, but not one even tried to alight on the red cosmos. What is happening! I only surmise that maybe there are more preferred flowers around it. Or probably, there are still very few cosmos flowers to attract the butterflies. I don't know.<br />
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So i just content myself in taking different angles of the flowers, the back against a lot of bokeh as above....<br />
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...the side angle with the pollens showing...<br />
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I am a bit disappointed that butterflies are not nectaring on them. But still i will again plant those seeds to have a patch with more flowers to invite the butterflies. Next time i have many results to observe, many parameters to test. That makes the unexciting more exciting, don't you think so! Let us all see the next generation of red cosmos with moderate stands, lots of flowers on a single patch, shorter internodes and with lots of butterflies....See you next time around.</div>
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August/September is the height of our rainy months. Our Rainy Season is also the typhoon months, when the letters of the alphabet are not enough to name them. We repeat the alphabet letters when approaching the end of the year. Last July we already finished 10 letters for the typhoons that passed our Philippine Area of Responsibility. At the moment there is a looming Super Typhoon with the strength of Yolanda looming at the Pacific Ocean. It is said to be at our Philippine Area of Responsibility thip afternoon. Those in Northern Philippines are already preparing, classes are already suspended there, but still we are praying for it to divert its path away from our PAR!<br />
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Low Pressure Areas (LPA) are common with us. These LPAs strongly attracts the Southwest Monsoon rains that eventually got many areas to flooding situations. Until now there still are flooded low-lying areas even if the rains happened weeks ago. It is a big problem for health and sanitation. Fortunately, our area in the province is in the uplands, and my area in the city is the same as well. At least going home from the office is not at bad as others experience, as in going through floodied streets. '<br />
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Plants in the province are now luxuriously growing, blooming as much as they can to produce seeds before the dry season comes again.<br />
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One of the lilies that started blooming in July still has some scapes till now. This <i style="font-weight: bold;">Crinum zeylanicum </i>gives a strongly sweet scent that serves as air freshener near the gate.<br />
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The hoyas are confined in an enclosure near the terrace, and early afternoons are laden with scents that nobody will ignore. Even just an opening umbel from one plant will already get your attention. Imagine the fragrance from the lots of umbels of different species in my garden! A visitor will just say OMG or Whew! A scent will prod a visitor to locate where that is coming from, and they will learn the characteristics of that hoya! Sometimes they really get hooked! HUH.<br />
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<b><i>Hoya celata</i></b> (formerly called Hoya pubicalyx White Dragon) is a prolific bloomer whenever it starts blooming. New buds immediately develop as the previous buds drop. </div>
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Another form of <b><i>Hoya pubicalyx</i></b> but is not as famous as the common one. This has longer internodes and roundish, clear green leaves. The chimera flowers look like that of the 'Royal Hawaiian Purple', but the umbels are bigger. It now has 4 umbels at different stages of maturity.<br />
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<b><i> Hoya buotii</i></b> (purple) is also a floriferous species. A bigger plant produces a lot of umbels that bloom at almost the same time making a wonderful sight. Once-in-a while it produces some flowers with 6 corollas, and that makes us hoya hobbyists very glad. Can you see it at the rightmost side?<br />
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<b><i>Hoya mariae</i></b> grows profusely with vines facing everywhere, that you need immediate attention. A week you forgot to guide the shoots and you will end up with a very difficult situation, it will deliberately embrace a nearby stem to cling on. Removing twining stems often break the younger portions that earlier attention to unwind them will be better.<br />
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<b><i> Hoya buotii</i></b> (yellow) </div>
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<b><i>Hoya multiflora</i></b> is known for its floriferousness, sometimes with an umbel in every node. However, mine is not growing nicely and suffered much during last dry season. It needs a good Relative Humidity in the surrounding air to grow healthily.<br />
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<b><i>Hoya ilagiorum</i></b>, also flowers consecutively after every flower drop, but vegetative growth is not as fast as other species. My plant is a bit lanky with lesser leaves.<br />
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This <b><i>Hoya pubicorolla ssp. anthracina</i></b> is producing a few umbels, and they are all big and beautiful. Can you visualize it. </div>
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<b><i>Hoya lacunosa </i></b>is one of the small-umbelled hoyas, with also small leaves. But the size is compensated with the very lovely sweet scent, which everybody likes. Sometimes it has a lot of simultaneous umbels open at the same time. </div>
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Please bear with me in posting a lot of hoyas, i am a hoya addict, i confess! I always tell new hobbyists that it is addictive and contagious, so they must decide immediately before they are hooked. They are what use most of my time in the province during my weekends, the reason i always go home on Saturdays. I am sure you will understand. And i also warn you, if you are just starting to appreciate them, or starting to buy the first one! </div>
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The most loyal orchid in my garden, despite neglect it still produce flowers looking very elegant and standing high among the rest of them, a Vanda orchid. It really is the Queen of the Flowering Plants!</div>
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And another loyal and self-supporting orchid with very subtle, cool color is this vanda.</div>
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A lavender Pentas lanceolata is much loved by this Common Mormon. We have lots of butterflies, but this one never forgets to visit this pentas. </div>
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Another nectar plant in my garden is this Ixora javanica. It actually becomes a tall bush, like a small tree. It suffered setback because the original tree was killed to give way to the garage. This new plant is just starting, but already giving the characteristically very big umbels, also loved by butterflies.<br />
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Caladiums respond favorably to the wet environment. I already took the picture as more leaves enlarge because in a little while the hawkmoths will fully devour their leaves.<br />
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Look at the caladium when planted in rich soil. That big leaf at the left is more than 2 ft wide. Other leaves are following that size. Eventually i will get some corms and plant them too in nutrient deprived soils to produce more compact growth.</div>
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Lastly, the Queen of the Night, <b><i>Epiphyllum oxypetalum</i></b> was not able to wait for me before it bloomed. Some bloomed in July which i did not see also. I always go home a few days after their big event. They open before midnight with strong fragrance, and they are already closed in the morning. Last week they opened on Thursday while this picture was taken Saturday. There still are a lot of them in many stems. A bit disappointing but we don't seem to have very good communication lines. Or i was not able to send a very exact instruction. The next blooming season will still be next year, that seems to be a long time. </div>
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A friend gave me a crinum lily a few years ago, which i planted in a bigger pot. For the first year it flowered once but i did not see it in person. There was also an episode when it was fully defoliated by a lily caterpillar moth, eating all the leaves and leaf sheaths, leaving only the base trunk and the bulb. It didn't seem to be bothered as it produced more robust and healthier leaves than before. Afterwards it produced a scape with a few flowers. The good thing about this lily is the ability to produce more flowerings per year.<br />
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It even has a sweet scent discernible when you are near it. Ours is planted near the terrace so a whif of that scent goes with the wind for some moments. The flowers though do not bloom at the same time, and droop always. I wonder if the flowers are so heavy while the neck are soft to carry them upright. Moreover, the flowers last only for one day. </div>
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I was so curious once that i opened a still close bud like above to see the conditions of the pollen inside. </div>
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It turned out that pollens are already mature and ready for pollination even before opening the petals.<br />
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Curiosity got into me the past week so i pollinated it with some hippeastrum pollens, because a few hippeastrum are simultaneously blooming with it. I checked after a few days and i guess it did not succeed. Intergeneric breeding might not be possible with it, or there are factors which hindered the fertilization. Those however are very difficult to answer with just a few pollinations i did, which i also did not vary any conditions as maturity of pollen and stigma, conditions of the day, etc. </div>
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The pollens immediately become black a few hours after opening. The stigma stalk also curved upwards which to me signals stigma receptivity for fertilization. I should also consider this factor when i do crossing next time.<br />
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However, i searched the net and nothing of the sort has been done yet. But there was a dissertation in Australia showing the factors that impede fertilization, once before and once after. However the actual study succeding fertilization of crinum with hippeastrum is still not available. With that, i will not do it again next time. Just let them BE!<br />
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848957958059476177noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747604230045436342.post-54996299208084137602018-07-30T16:02:00.001+08:002018-08-10T09:37:43.379+08:00Endemic Plant PandakakiA plant with white small flowers, scattered in our fallowed areas or in little thickets under coconut trees are these shrubs we locally call pandakaki, <b><i>Tabernaemontana pandacaqui</i></b>. It is native to the Philippines and other neighboring Asian countries. It is very resistant to drought that we can see them leafless during dry seasons, but eventually grow again with the coming rainy months. I observed that in drier patches they do not grow as tall as this picture, some are just about a foot tall. The stems specially the base of the plant are strong and cannot just be cut or pulled off by hands. We have a lot of this plants in our area and around the surrounding localities. It is reported to be common in Asia, and the Pacific Islands including Australia.<br />
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The flowers are white with a bit wavy petals. They do not open simultaneously in big clusters unlike the umbels of some plants in the Apocynaceae family. </div>
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Flowers are just a little over 1 centimeter in diameter, but they are cute, don't you think so?<br />
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It looks like a spinning wheel, and it is loved also by some butterflies.<br />
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The fruits are technically called follicles, and normally emerge as a pair like above. They start as green which changes color as it ripens.<br />
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The black seeds are enclosed in red pulps, seemingly very attractive to eat. These pictures are just as i see them in the wild normal habitat. With those lots of seeds inside a folicle, i can imagine why there are lots of plants i see all around our area in the province. </div>
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In my area, i haven't known any use for medicinal purposes, but it is commonly used as landscape materials. It is not very difficult to grow and very tolerant to drought, which probably made it good in ornamental industry. I also observed it to be good nectar plants for some butterfy species, so it can be both used in landscaping and in butterfly gardening. </div>
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One early Sunday morning i was out after coffee, donned with my normal jogging pants, long sleeves and a hat. I am expecting to see a lot of butterflies. I purposely intend to go to my so called "butterfly sanctuary" i term i give to an area under some trees where the undergrowths consist of both hosts and nectaring plants for butterfly. For the many visits i've been going there, it did not fail me. Many butterflies converge there, and also maybe the already very tall trees give the butterflies the environment both not fully exposed to the sun and the enough humidity for them to live nicely. </div>
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However, this time my time was spent differently. I noticed that the area's vegetation are already in the mature stage, maybe not anymore good hosts for the caterpillars. So i took photos of some moths and beetles that i normally ignore when butterflies abound. This morning the primary purpose is not there so i took photos of whatever took my fancy. Even the dried grass fruits ready for wind dispatch are good photo subjects. </div>
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Then i found this! I was a bit scared as they are very plenty, newly hatched baby spiders. Maybe they are hundreds of thousands in one group. I thought they might just have newly emerged. I can't even see the egg sacs they emerged from. </div>
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I watched closely at the somehow not moving spiderlings, just hanging on those almost invisible fine webs. I can't even see their mother even outside the community.</div>
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Everybody moved downwards sliding on the web threads attached to the base of the plant they are in. Can you see the fine threads sparkling with the morning sunlight? They seem to be very strong, swirling pliantly with the wind. </div>
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There they go, everybody's instinct is to come down for safety, maybe to hide on the ground. They can sense that their present predator is big maybe because of the strong movement of their web-house. Others just fell, maybe purposely or maybe they just slipped from the web, i don't know! The drama continues and i was so curious with my little experiment. </div>
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After a few minutes, and after i am done with my photos i stopped moving the branch they are in. Just a few seconds of silence and they immediately rushed upwards again to their big original community. I just am not sure what happens to those that fell to the ground, i hope they can still come up to their safety again. Their pace is so fast, in a few seconds they are already up there again. The only signal or communication they have is the movement of their web and the branch the web is clinging. </div>
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Spiderlings are hatched with that plenty of numbers because their predators are plenty, and a lot of them die while at their spiderling-hood stage. The number is nature's way of preserving the species through the few that will survive its harsh environment. I just did not have the time to observe more for their other characteristics as a group, nor to watch for any predator that might come here. Or probably with my presence for a few minutes, they were spared by the predators who are also scared of me. I went there again 2 weeks after, they were not there anymore. I hope that means they are already independent making their own lives, away from their spider siblings! </div>
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the sleeping shoots were shaken from slumber and produced blooms.<br />
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The lilies were terminated off their dormancy, like this <b><i>Scadoxus multiflorus </i></b>or Blood Lily. We don't see them during the dry season, as their leaves are gone with only their live bulbs in the soil. With the first heavy rains they regain growth, all the flowers sprout first before the leaves. They sprouted a bit staggeredly, so we can see the red umbels for at least 2 weeks.<br />
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I also observed that the stingless bees swarm on them with their legs full of pollen to be brought to their hives. In a month the umbels will die and be replaced with green leaves, again accumulating food to prepare for their next dormancy in the dry season.<br />
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Those colorful parts are bracts, enclosing the small yellow flowers. We cut all those branches 2x a year when those bracts wither. The succeeding shoots will enable the tree to accumulate food again for the next flowering, which coincides just after the first heavy rains. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This small tree belongs to the Rutaceae which include the citrus. Flowers entice a lot of butterflies there on top. It is called "malarayap" in the our local term because the leaves emit a scent like that of "dayap" or our local lime. </span></div>
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<b><i>Tabernaemontana pandacaqui</i></b> (pandakaki)</div>
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This is a bush which luxuriantly grows in our areas, fallowed lands, under coconut trees, vacant or marginal lands, everywhere in our vicinity. The butterflies also love nectaring on them. It produces very colorful orange pods when ripe that can be easily seen from a distant, in contrast with the green environment. </div>
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<b><i>Hoya lacunosa </i></b></div>
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Hoya lacunosa is one of the small-leaves hoya, with equally small umbels. But its overpowering scent makes up for the size of the flowers. After the heavy rains it produced a lot of umbels. The above plant alone has 15 umbels. </div>
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<b><i>Hoya obscura</i></b></div>
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This plant is also considered small because of the leaves, but it is a bit bigger than H. lacunosa. Even just the lacunosa or the obscura flowers alone are open, one can immediately realize that a hoya is in bloom in the hoya enclosure. The scent is easily discernible at 5 meter radius or 10 m diameter. </div>
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Even the fungi are happy emerging with the start of the rainy season as the brown fungus above and the yellow ones below. I do not know their identification.<br />
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It is my first time to upload a video in my posts here, but i cannot control sharing with you the happiness of those bees nectaring on the newly opening Hoya alwitriana. This hoya is so much different than most because it opens in the morning, when the bees and other insects are starting to forage for nectar and pollen. Most hoyas open late in the afternoon to early evening. This scene above always happen when an umbel opens but the bees leave after a few minutes.<br />
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It is so nice to watch something like this in nature, and the bees do not seem to mind a human watching them. Those honey bees are also endemic in the country, Apis cerana. Their honey is my most prefered honey among the honey producing bees.<br />
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<br />Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05848957958059476177noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4747604230045436342.post-44430668415175024202018-07-02T14:16:00.000+08:002018-07-03T10:28:29.956+08:00 Bits and Pieces in my WorldAs i write this, our rainy days have not stopped since last weekend. Rainy season has arrived finally! Our heat subsided, hopefully our electric bills as well. It started with a thunderstorm, followed by a typhoon that already left, but there is still a strong pull of Southeast Moonsoon rains giving us floodings in some areas and of course No Classes in all levels. The last one is much awaited by students, young and old. Government employees also share in the rainy-day-holidays because work was declared half day last Monday. Then of course yesterday is our INDEPENDENCE DAY! Many believe we don't really have a TRUE independence, but we wallowed in "holiday". I cannot just go home to the province to attend to my plants, but i had some extra time to clean the house and do the laundry. And of course, i had more time editing my pictures, blogging and in FB. Haha, it is a real holiday.<br />
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<b><i>Sanzevieria trifasciata</i></b> blooms last dry season, with full sweet scent at night.</div>
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Spider plant, <b><i>Chlorophytum comosum,</i></b> grows well when fertilized. This just started from a very small plantlet like those at the end of the long stems. Now it has a lot of plantlets ready to be an independent plant. </div>
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A volunteer eggplant i nurtured well with fertilizers, and has already given me the first fruit. Those two fruits will in turn be for my sister and mother who water it daily during the very dry months. I hope it will grow even better now during the rainy season. </div>
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These are guavas i found in the thicket, fallowed areas when i was looking for butterflies. Eaten early morning, it gave me a full doze of Vitamin C requirement and tummy full too. It gave me power in chasing butterflies in the wild to photograph.</div>
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And to complete the story of my day, let me show you our new young kittens, which do not stop at all from running, teasing each other, pulling each other's tail and everything. Look at that, they were just stopped by my camera. </div>
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I am not so fund of growing cactus, just like what is a seemingly craze now here in our area! That doesn't mean i don't like them. Of course i appreciate them and in garden shows i spend time taking their pictures and scrutinizing them intently. However, in my small unit in the big city where i only have a few plants outside my 5th Floor Window plus a few inside a rach utilizing the glass window for light, the plants suffer. Suffering is either from neglect when i am on travels for a few days, or from too much pampering when i am here and can't seem to have enough plants to tend. I inadvertently water them more often than is required, so most often they die. Please don't blame me, i can't just seem to remember they hate too much water!!!</div>
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I already killed a few round cactus and one stapeliad which is already a foot long. So this red Rseudorhipsalis ramulosa, i transfered to our garden in the province where most of my plants are. I planted it on a very small pot and hang it outside the walls of my hoya garden. It receives direct afternoon sun and sometimes forgotten to be watered. </div>
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<b><i>Pseudorhipsalis ramulosa</i></b> (syn. Disocactus ramulosus) </div>
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That flower is less than a centimeter in diameter. So special it is, i thought! I noticed that it has been flowering and fruiting last dry season, and the leaves are fully red that makes it more attractive. </div>
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The plant only have a few leaves because its growth is very much restricted by the very less soil it is planted in. Moreover, neglect did not give it much energy to grow. It matured fast because of those conditions and already gone to the reproductive stage, maybe in anticipation of protecting the species!<br />
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Look at those fruits at different stages of maturity, they are really cute. True to the characteristics of the leaf cactus, it has flowered and fruited at every notch on the leaves. Amazing survival characteristics that sometimes make some of their relatives very invasive. </div>
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I will try transferring a few leaves in a bigger pot to produce a bigger plant. I have seen bigger hanging plants in the net, which are really looking great, especially with the flowers blooming simultaneously or with those fruits at greenish tinge.<br />
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I promise i will not be watering them too much to avoid deaths. They are too colorful to experience the death sentence!<br />
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