Healing plants walk into Paies

A steady rain prevented photographic images from being captured on this wet walk. Twenty-one students of twenty-four reported for class. By the end of the walk up in Paies, Kitti, seventeen students would still be present. All were as rain ready as possible, and the walk went reasonably well under continuous rain. A handout cross-referenced the Latin name to local name, although the rain prevented the handout from being useful during the hike. The hike included Premna serratifolia, Morinda citrifolia, Terminalia catappa, Volkameria inermis, Ocimum tenuiflorum, Scaevola taccada, Premna obtusifolia, Glochidion ramiflorum, Cordyline fruticosa, Melastoma malabathricum, Macrothelypteris torresiana, Piper methysticum, Piper ponapense, Phymatosorus scolopendria, Hedychium coronarium, Crinum asiaticum, Ixora casei. I did not locate Plectranthus scutellarioides on this walk, I am unsure what happened to the large plant near the corner, but then coleus does seem to die back mysteriously out here.

An online flora includes many of the plants seen on the walk along with local names, although not all of the plants seen are in the flora as yet.