PlantNet – worldwide plants. Caribbean – my region. Cayman Islands Flora – Indigenous and naturalized plants of the Cayman Islands, plants that grow wild in the Cayman Islands.
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Wash-wood – Jacquina proctorii, Critically Endangered, was used for washing clothes in the Cayman Islands; it occurs on all 3 islands. Native to Cayman Islands and Jamaica only. (Wash Wood -J. keyensis, Endangered, occurs on Grand Cayman & Cayman Brac.)
Seaside Dragonlet (male) - Erythrodiplax berenice is unique among dragonflies of the western hemisphere in that it can breed in seawater. Grand Cayman, Jan.26, 2025. Peter Stafford’s photo
Green Urania Swallowtail Moths (Urania fulgens) day-flying, periodically undergo mass migrations. Apparently they can’t compensate for wind-drift, so a weather system can blow them off-course. In some years they have been sighted in Grand Cayman in September or October.
Solanum havanense, small Cayman native shrub (Cayman Is, Cuba, Jamaica), of rocky woodlands. Leaves Alternate, flowers violet, fading to white, yellow centres. Fruit a purple berry. Mastic Trail, Grand Cayman Oct.5, 2007