Healing plants walk in Paies

The unit on healing plants launched on a Tuesday with a cold open to the Paies walk. At 15:27 I arrived and went to clean the Premna serratifolia.

The young shoots clearly display the serrated leaf margins for which the plant is named. At 15:30 I started slowly ambling towards Paies, studying the ground and I went to see if anything interesting was sprouting.

When I reached Jed's has I lingered, looking for remnants of the Coleus scutellarioides that was once there. Much to my surprise the class was still milling around in front of A101. That hadn't happened before. The weather was clear, partly sunny after a passing rain shower cleared campus by 15:15. 

I made the decision to go ahead into Paies and see if they could comprehend that this is another campus walk. By the time I reached the Miconia crenata (riahpen roht) about half the class had shown up. Yet only that half ever showed up. That hasn't happened before. This cell phone generation seems to have no independent ability to assess a situation and respond appropriately. Their brains are switched off by default - operating in a passive mode where they only consume information. Without a specific directive to follow me, they didn't.

The Miconia was full of edible, albeit seedy, fruit. The birds seem not to have discovered the fruit yet.

Cordyline fruticosa with Musa and Premna serratifolia at the far right. The fever mat use of Cordyline fruticosa was explained.

Photographing the dihng. 

The sun and wet asphalt produced intense humidity over the road. My long sleeve shirt, intended to provide a sun shield, left me overheated.

Traffic is ever heavier on this toad with each passing term. At this point 14 of 24 students had joined the walk. 

Premna serratifolia, oahr, along the road.

Premna obtusifolia, known as topwuk here.

Saint Barnabas 

Glochidion ramiflorum, mwehk. During the walk I often walked backwards lecturing on topics at the end of the slide deck on healing plants.

Old man unsuccessfully tries a selfie on the way back at 16:30. The class wrapped at the bridge marking the Sokehs-Kitti border.  While coverage included culture bound syndromes and the Thursday presentations, attendance was overlooked in the heat. In retrospect this oversight was probably for the best. That I am still struggling with names and faces would have been more obvious out there at the bridge.

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