Gymnosperms, spice trees, and timber trees of Pwunso
The ethnobotany class visited the Pohnpei state Pwunso botanic garden to tour the gymnosperms, spice trees, and timber products trees of the garden.
Guava tree curiously being protected
Papaya trees
Unusual and rarely seen by me: cloves forming on the clove tree
Cloves
Araucaria trees variously identified as Araucaria heterophylla and Araucaria columnaris.
Under the Araucaria trees
The Cinnamomum verum trees were bearing fruit
Cinnamomum verum fruit and leaves
Jon and Dannia discovering cinnamon bark
Cycad in light rain
No cones at this time - the cones are spring events
A gymnosperm: cycaad
Amid cycad fronds, Ann-Julie and Sasha consider cycad
Behind Dannia is a nutmeg tree, which is also the source of mace
Eucalptus deglupta: timber tree
Natasha gets in touch with the painted or rainbow gum tree, also known as a Mindanao gum tree
Natasha and Vanessa with the eucalptus
Averrhoa carambola: star fruit, known locally as ansu
Averrhoa carambola
Averrhoa carambola
The reason the fruit is called star fruit
Eucalptus grove
Students examining the pine resin on the Agathis lanceolata kauri pine
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