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Caribbean Gulf Fritillary (Dione vanillae ssp. insularis)Observer
caymannature
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Jamaican Dogwood (Piscidia piscipula)Observer
caymannatureDescription
Piscidia piscipula - Dogwood, Fish Poison Tree May 1, 2024 Fruits
Small tree with Alternate compound leaves, leaflets Opposite with a terminal leaflet. Flowers pale pink. Fruit clusters of papery seed pods.
Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor, 2012, p.378.
Kings 1938 GC 318.
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Jamaican Dogwood (Piscidia piscipula)Observer
caymannatureDescription
Piscidia piscipula - Dogwood, Fish Poison Tree, April 24, 2024 Flowers, fruits
Small tree with Alternate compound leaves, leaflets Opposite with a terminal leaflet. Flowers pale pink. Fruit clusters of papery seed pods.
Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor, 2012, p.378.
Kings 1938 GC 318.
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Jamaican Dogwood (Piscidia piscipula)Observer
caymannatureDescription
Piscidia piscipula - Dogwood, Fish Poison Tree April 17, 2024 Flowers
Small tree with Alternate compound leaves, leaflets Opposite with a terminal leaflet. Flowers pale pink. Fruit clusters of papery seed pods.
Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor, 2012, p.378.
Kings 1938 GC 318.
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Velvety Free-tailed Bat (Molossus molossus)Observer
caymannatureDescription
Velvety Free-tailed Bat/ Pallas’s Mastiff Bat - Molossus molossus, one of the nine species of bats in Cayman eat insects and are the only species that live in Bat Houses.
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Shake Hand Tree (Xylosma bahamensis)Observer
caymannatureDescription
Xylosma bahamensis - Shake Hand Tree (One) is the Cayman common name.
ALTERNATE leaves, intricately branched, dioecious, Endangered shrub or small tree. The trunk and larger limbs are densely armed with sharp, branched spines, the leafy twigs are with or without spines. The apex of the leaf is acute or sometimes mucronate. Very slow growing. Native to: Grand Cayman, northern Bahamas. FLORA of the CAYMAN ISLANDS by George R. Proctor 2012 p.319, Pl.21.
http://caymannature.blogspot.com/2013/09/spiny-confusem-and-shake-hand-trees.html
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Shake Hand Tree (Xylosma bahamensis)Observer
caymannatureDescription
Xylosma bahamensis - Shake Hand Tree (One) is the Cayman common name.
ALTERNATE leaves, intricately branched, dioecious, Endangered shrub or small tree. The trunk and larger limbs are densely armed with sharp, branched spines, the leafy twigs are with or without spines. The apex of the leaf is acute or sometimes mucronate. Very slow growing. Native to: Grand Cayman, northern Bahamas. FLORA of the CAYMAN ISLANDS by George R. Proctor 2012 p.319, Pl.21.
http://caymannature.blogspot.com/2013/09/spiny-confusem-and-shake-hand-trees.html
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Eunomia caymanensisObserver
caymannatureDescription
Eunomia caymanensis – Cayman Clearwing Wasp Moth.
Endemic to the Cayman Islands.
A published record for Cuba has since been shown to be an error.
Torrance Mastic Trail, April 28, 2024
http://caymannature.blogspot.com/2015/02/thomas-mylius-savage-english-naturalist.html
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Observer
caymannatureDescription
Heliotropium astrotrichum var. astrotrichum = Tournefortia astrotricha var. astrotricha - . flowers. Native to Cayman Islands, Jamaica and Swan Islands. April 28-24 Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor, 2012 p.560.
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Casearia laetioidesObserver
caymannatureDescription
Casearia laetioides = Zuelania guidonia, Jeremiah Bush is the Cayman common name.
Shrub / small tree, Alternate leaves.
Critically Endangered
Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor, 2nd. Edition 2012, p.318.
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:48022-2
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Observer
caymannatureDescription
Heliotropium astrotrichum var. subglabrum = Tournefortia astrotricha var. subglabra - fruits.
(called Tournefortia for lack of a Cayman common name)
Shrub, leaves Alternate.
Leaves glabrous beneath or with a few scattered hairs
Native to Cayman Islands and Jamaica only. April 26-24 Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor, 2012 p.560.
Red List status – Data Deficient
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77192213-1
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Biscayne Prickly-Ash (Zanthoxylum coriaceum)Observer
caymannatureDescription
Jan.12, 2005, Winters Land, East End.
Zanthoxylum coriaceum - Shake Hand tree _Two (Cayman common name).
Alternate compound leaves with or more often without (terminal) odd leaflet, not pellucid-dotted.
Knobbly spines on the trunk.
Critically Endangered.
Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor, 2012 p.493, Plate 45.
Kings GC 338
Larval food plant of Grand Cayman Swallowtail – endemic butterfly subspecies – Heraclides andraemon tailori
Zanthoxylum spinosum = Z. coriaceum
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:270788-2
Native to:
Bahamas, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Haiti, Jamaica, Turks-Caicos Is.
