These small, bright pink mushrooms have been photographed in various locations on Curaçao, including the Den Dunki nature reserve, Landhuis Bloemhof and others.
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.
When the humidity is right, the ground is wet and you have the luck to have the seeds of these plants in the ground, these little sweethearts will grow like crazy
The Latticed stinkhorn is called that for a reason. The mushroom produces a dark brown, rotting-flesh-smelling substance in the centre of its gauzy structure, which attracts flies and other insects.
During the large-scale biodiversity study conducted a couple of years ago by various scientists, primarily on Bonaire, a considerable number of small creatures were found and identified.
A strikingly large moray eel species is the Green Moray eel (Gymnothorax funebris), a species found in large parts of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Se