I remember a Botanist said in a talk it was great to be interested in plants because you get to have a rest a lot as you see an interesting plant every few feet. Really great to find another channal that has videos focusing on Botany on RUclips . Hawaii is an amazing place.
Very depressing to see Koster's Curse and so much palmgrass way up there. The small birds like waxbills love to walk across the thin stalks of the palmgrass and eat the seeds at the end. It's humorous to see the bulbuls hanging around closeby trying to figure out how they do that. Where I live in the back of Manoa we get at least 1/10th of an inch of rain at least 2/3rd of the days of the year. Quite often much more. Where Lyon Arboretum is located on the other side of the valley is the second wettest spot on the island. There's a very big long landslide on one of the slopes behind my house. I heard it happen around 5am. Lots of crunching trees.
It's really fascinating how much variation there is in rainfall in Hawaii, een over short distances. It's definitely a major factor in why the Hawaiian islands have so many range restricted ande endemic species.
I remember a Botanist said in a talk it was great to be interested in plants because you get to have a rest a lot as you see an interesting plant every few feet. Really great to find another channal that has videos focusing on Botany on RUclips . Hawaii is an amazing place.
I believe that if you are able to find plants interesting, you will almost never be bored.
Very depressing to see Koster's Curse and so much palmgrass way up there. The small birds like waxbills love to walk across the thin stalks of the palmgrass and eat the seeds at the end. It's humorous to see the bulbuls hanging around closeby trying to figure out how they do that. Where I live in the back of Manoa we get at least 1/10th of an inch of rain at least 2/3rd of the days of the year. Quite often much more. Where Lyon Arboretum is located on the other side of the valley is the second wettest spot on the island. There's a very big long landslide on one of the slopes behind my house. I heard it happen around 5am. Lots of crunching trees.
It's really fascinating how much variation there is in rainfall in Hawaii, een over short distances. It's definitely a major factor in why the Hawaiian islands have so many range restricted ande endemic species.