Haruki village cemetery walk at spring higan

Prior to class I nominally cleared a path for the class to traipse over. I opened with mention of test eight, the field final examination. The field final examination has the students provide the local name in their language and use for the plant. The final used to include scientific names, but the churn has been so fierce that names were changing on some plants twice in a single term. The instability in the scientific names has made them functionally useless for identifying plants in a non-major science course. Even if one learned the current scientific names, there would be little usefulness as most of the ethnobotanical resources out here are older and reference prior names for the plants. Despite the churn, the following reference the scientific names at present. Cross references to local names are available in the campus flora.

I started with the plants next to the parking lot. The general area of the walk is behind the gym. A partial list of the plants in this area is on iNaturalist.

Jarred, Joe Scott K'con, Caitlin, Starsha

A shortage of toner and aging printers has everyone conscious of the need to print only when necessary. A paperless photographic roll call.

CiJay, Jarred, Franson, Joe Scott


At the bottom center is Jasminum sambac. On the right is an introduced orange Ixora species, a commercial cultivar in all likelihood. Could be Ixora chinensis, Ixora taiwanensis, or perhaps some other lineage. Directly behind Jarred is Senna alata, further behind Starsha is Hibiscus tiliaceus.

Joe Scott and Piruno

Jarred, Caitlin, Kai, Starsha

Cordyline fruticosa

Grace and Jimmy joined at the Cordyline fruticosa

Starsah, Caitline, Franson, Kai, Grace, Joe Scott in front of the Bambusa vulgaris

From the bamboo the class went down to the Ananas comosus

Bambusa vulgaris

Claoxylon carolinianum

Franson, K'Con


The route then brought the class to the first signs that this is a cemetery - cement markers for a plot.

Ixora casei, the native Ixora

Behind the Ixora casei is Volkameria inermis

End of class photographic roll: Caitlin, Franson, Grace, Kai, CiJay, K'Con, Jimmy, Joe Scott

Piruno, Starsha, Caitlin

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