Wild flowers – Wilde bloemen – Caribbean Footprint

If you look closely at the flower cone on the photo you will see that it consists of 2 different kinds of flowers; creamy rounded ones on the underside and reddish ones on the upper side.

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Wild flowers: Milkweed

maart 20, 2025

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Meet the plant named Katuna di Seda, Katúnbóm, Mata di lechi (Calotropis procera) or Milkweed. It is an introduced plant on Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao and all of the New World

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If there is a popular herb-like plant on the island it is the Flaira (Jatropha gossypiifolia). Either the variety with the green leaves, or the even more popular variety with the red leaves, the Flaira is one plant almost everyone wants in their garden.

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Wild flowers: Erythrina velutina

maart 10, 2025

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The month of March is a month of transitions. It is a month in which the dry season hits hard with occasionally a heavy rain shower that wakens nature for…

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Wild flowers: Bini-bini

maart 4, 2025

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The Bini-Bini was first discovered in the Caribbean by one Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin in the period between 1755 and 1759. In 1773 the plant was found in Florida by William Bartram.

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Wild flowers: Passiflora foetida

februari 26, 2025

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A popular wild flower on the islands is the wild Passion flower, or Korona di la birgen as it is called in Papiamentu.

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Wild flowers: Common prickly pear

februari 22, 2025

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The spiny Infrou (Opuntia caracassana). This native cactus does exceptionally well on the island as it favours degraded areas such as pieces of land.

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Wild flowers: Brassavola nodosa

februari 21, 2025

Michelle Pors-da Costa Gomez

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The best-known orchid that naturally occurs on the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao is perhaps the Brassavola nodosa, also known as the ‘Lady of the Night’.

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Wild flowers- Banana di ref/rif

februari 13, 2025

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Along the entire northern coast of our island, in the saliñas and along inlets and inner bays, grows a small plant that we all walk over carelessly and hardly look at.

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