Sam Ohu Gon III

Conservation biologist @ TNC Hawaiʻi; Kahuna Pule @ Puʻu Koholā; Kumu Oli @ Hālau Mele; Native plant grower; Trilobitophile; ʻImiloa Hawaiʻi; Mea Mālama ʻĀina.

[Sam Ohu Gon III @SamOhuGon]

The summit peak of the island of Molokaʻi is Kamakou, but few people know that in its name is a plant of the high wet montane forest, makou. Makou is the name for a number of umbelliferous plants, including Peucedanum and Sanicula, usually the latter.

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@worldbirds32 Sorry, but those are not ʻōʻū, but palila. ʻŌʻū had a flesh colored bill and legs, was dark green above and lighter olive green below, turning to pale at the rump, the head and nape were bright yellow.

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Do you know what this is? A shard of black volcanic glass, but moreover, a piece of a person's brain that was turned to glass by a superheated ash cloud that swept through Herculaneum in 79 CE during a Vesuvius eruption.

Read more here: https://t.co/xZo3AWZeG6

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I will be discontinuing my profile here on Muskland and start posting on BlueSky. Please find me there at:
https://t.co/SRRZF0tt9B

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I was wondering who was eating my mini wood rose... A sweet potato hornworm. Not surprising, since the plant is an Ipomoea, same genus as sweet potato...

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kaupapa nei
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[Sam Ohu Gon III @SamOhuGon]

新 年 快 乐 !

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I wonder if I should switch over to bsky, just so I stop supporting a narcissistic oligarch. Aristotle pioneered the use of the term oligarchy as meaning "rule by the rich," contrasting it with aristocracy, arguing that oligarchy was the perverted form of aristocracy.

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Mai kali no ka mahina ʻōlelo no ke kani leo, pono e leo makuahine i nā mānawa ā pau. He leo no kēia ʻāina aloha.

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He kauwā wale ke kanaka

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He kama o ka ʻāina
#Hulihua: He Nane ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i 1119 2/6

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En français...

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Je réussis tres bien mes cours de français avec Duolingo!

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J'apprends le français sur Duolingo!

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Ke aʻo pono nei au i ka ʻōlelo Palani me Duolingo...

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Hereʻs a prolific aquatic carnivorous plant, the common bladderwort, growing my my rain barrels to keep the mosquitoes down...

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Hereʻs another kind of carnivorous plant that I grow, a species of sundew.

[Sam Ohu Gon III @SamOhuGon]

I also have a fascination with carnivorous plants, such as Venus Flytraps. When I give them a lot of sun, they develop bright color.

[Sam Ohu Gon III @SamOhuGon]

This past weekend, my koku (co-kumu) Māhealani Wong and I celebrated 20 years since we both underwent ʻūniki with Kumu John Keolamakaʻāinana Lake in his Papa Lauaʻe, along with 14 others who emerged as kumu, kahuna kākalaleo, and ʻōlapa.

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There are about 40 species of Lithops recognized. Which one is this? ;)