Healing plants walk Paies

This term the healing plants lecture and the healing plants walk are set to run in the order set by the weather. In good weather the walk will be on Tuesday and the lecture on Thursday. The lecture is now centered around an expanded slide deck that includes both an ethnobotanical introduction to healing plants as well as a flora of common healing plants. That slide deck had previously only been a flora. This moves the lecture on why plants are medicinal and what distinguishes public from private healing knowledge into the lecture and unloads this from the Paies walk.  

Shifting the ethnobotanical material to the lecture day hollowed out the field walk day. The walk will now focus on specific healing uses - a necessity as student healing plant knowledge is in free fall along with the local language. A multi-page list of some specific uses of some of the specific plants we will see - in the order we will see them - will be the new core to the field walk lecture. 


Scaevola taccada at 15:33

The walk began on a cold open walk at 15:30 to the Scaevola taccada. 


By 15:38 I was wrapping up at the Volkameria inermis.

Geneva on the left, on the right Jenry-Thor strikes a pose


Mwehk after 15:45. The field notes kept me focused and avoided an unnecessary digression into Miconia crenata and Melastoma malabathricum.


Although Dicranopteris linear is is holding the line for now, both sides of the road cut are carpeted in Miconia crenata.

Glochidion ramiflorum was covered here in the road cut - perhaps a tad too tight for comfort when traffic comes through.

15:57 at the Cordyline fruticosa

A young Premna serratifolia displayed the serrate margins for which it is named.


Mature, blooming Premna serratifolia


16:12 headed up into Paies. Saw Piper ponapense and Piper methysticum en route.


Macaranga carolinensis just past the Crinum asiaticum.


Picked up Microsorum scolopendria at 16:22


An alternate Crinum asiaticum up at Saint Barnabas


Headed out at 16:35.

16:36


16:47 back on campus.

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