Wild flowers: Mexican cotton (Gossypium hirsutum)

The Cotton plant we know as Katuna or as Catuna is a species of plant that is native to Mexico and the rest of Central America as well as South America and the West Indies.

Wild flowers: the wild Hibiscus

Did you know Curaçao has its very own wild Hibiscus plant called Rosita in Papiamentu or Brazilian rosemallow in English.

Wild flowers: Melochia tomentosa (Basora kòrá – Betonica)

On Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, several plants grow whose Papiamento or Papiamentu name includes the word Basora (broom), and the Basora kòrá (Bonaire and Curaçao) or Betonica (Aruba) is one of them.

Wild flowers – Sida ciliaris

Yerba di pinda, a native plant, most people will not look at twice!

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