If you want hummingbirds in your garden you need this plant in your garden. The Blue porterweed is a much loved garden plant for all who want to attract hummingbirds and butterflies to the garden.
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
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.
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.