Flora – Caribbean Footprint

The most picturesque plant on our islands is simply the cactus, and especially the columnar cactus. On the islands there are three different native columnar cacti that each have their own name on each of the islands. Learn how to differentiate between them.

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Wild flowers – Bourreria succulenta

juni 19, 2025

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A tree that will lose its leaves when the drought keep going on, but is also often the last one to drop all its leaves when it gets to dry.

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Wild flowers – Opuntia elatior

juni 12, 2025

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De Opuntia elatior is a rare leaf cactis that can be found on the ABC-islands.

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Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (10) – Trees in our local history

juni 10, 2025

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Our history is full of trees. Used as building materials, as a food supply for humans and livestock, to tan leather of to make quicklime, the stories are ample.

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Wild flowers – Aloe vera

juni 4, 2025

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Introduced to the ABC-islands in colonial times, the Aloe vera plant is now almost naturalized on the islands and grows in the wild.

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Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (9) – Sick; swallow a tree!

juni 3, 2025

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The active fight of plants against natural attacks, such as predation by insects and other animals, fungi that want to invade and fauna that use parts of the plants, has resulted in a variety of defence mechanisms. Some of these are highly beneficial to human kind.

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Wild flowers – Flamboyant

mei 26, 2025

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The so beloved Flamboyant, one of the most beloved trees on our islands, does not originally come from Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao or even from the Caribbean.

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Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (8) – Trees under the magnifying glass

mei 25, 2025

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If you want a forest, you need trees. Trees are special organisms that are more complex than we often think. The ease with which trees are cut down would be a lot less if we realized how much a tree has had to go through to become as big and wide as we see it.

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Wild flowers – Bringamosa

mei 21, 2025

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Everyone with a good knowledge of nature on the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao know that the Bringamosa plant has a very close relationship with the Flaira.

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Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (7) – Local forests under the magnifying glass

mei 16, 2025

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Biologically, a distinction is made between different types of vegetation on our islands, and therefore different types of forests. The distinction is closely related to the geological composition of the soil on our small islands.

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Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (11) – Cacti; special trees

Wild flowers – Bourreria succulenta

Wild flowers – Opuntia elatior

Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (10) – Trees in our local history

Wild flowers – Aloe vera

Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (9) – Sick; swallow a tree!

Wild flowers – Flamboyant

Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (8) – Trees under the magnifying glass

Wild flowers – Bringamosa

Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (7) – Local forests under the magnifying glass

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