Ethnobotany field final


Starting off at the northeast corner where we started with Premna obtusifolia. We headed west through to Palhinhaea cernua

From there we made a jog to the south for Ocimum tenuiflorum and Jasminum sambac.


Ocimim tenuiflorum 


Jasminum sambac 

En route
Heading past the LRC

The long tail trailing behind the mad hatter, the Pied Piper of the college.

Centella asiatica

Writing box solving the field writing challenge by thinking on the outside of the box. Literally. Kerry "KC" with the box.

The final is always an honor system event. Not sure what sense this really makes in an age where Google Gemini and Google Lens can identify plants and pull up uses. That said  the students are generally respectful of the guidelines, seen here keeping their answer sheets to themselves.

I headed directly from the Centella asiatica to the Cymbopogon citratus. Then we continued west.

Rain would pass to the north and south of our location until after the final finished. Then Nahnsapwe blessed us abundantly.

We would plunge into the bush at the west parking lot. The field final has to include bush punching. This term, with the move to Moodle,  I lacked the time to clear a path. So this was bush punching. Asplenium nidus was the next stop.

Sheliza, KC, Pelma

The complication at this point in the journey is that the students are strung out along the single track.

KC, Pelma, Bentrick

From here we went to Cordyline fruticosa, Curcuma australisica, and Coffee robusta.

Alpinia carolinensis, iuiu. A tough one for the Pohnpeian students.

Mayoleen Ioanis 

Mayoleen atop the cliff

To jump or not to jump... the solution is to slide through the grass.

Eugene takes the plunge

Valigene

Or go back around to the east side slope.

Unica and Meraliz at the Saccharum officinarum and Cocos nucifera.

Meraliz and Valigene alongside the Saccharum officinarum.

Rachel working on the left

After the last plant rewriting was done around the west parking lot.

Sonya and Karen rewrite. 

In the back Matuita and Mayoleen (blocked by Pelma) are working on their papers. Somewhere along the way Mayoleen lost her car keys. She was able to make some phone calls. She was then assisted by cousins of hers who were shooting hoops. As her car was not there the next day I presume some sort of resolution was found. A good reminder to bring nothing but pencil and paper. And to meet at my office where the students can leave valuables in the locked closet.

The field final usually wraps just ahead of sunset. The brief rain that occurred just after the end of the final had already moved off to the west. 

Back in Kolonia as dusk falls across Nan Mall road. 

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