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Caly's Milestones
Look back at all the major events in Caly’s life, her community, and the conservation efforts to keep her alive.
Highlighted Milestones
What's been happening lately?
Caly
Apr 29, 2019
A dry spring on the Waianae range
As my flowers prepare to bloom soon, one challenge that me and other plants up here have had to cope with is a relatively dry spring,...
Caly
Mar 29, 2019
Young stems getting ready to flower this year!
Flower season is approaching! This year, following robust growth by my keiki over the last few months, several of my stems are developing...
plantcam team
Mar 14, 2019
Into the field
Last week, we visited Caly and the monitoring system do some repairs and maintenance. As usual, the scenery eclipsed time on the climb up...
Caly
Feb 15, 2019
Winter cold and micro-refugia
Last Saturday night (2/10) as Honolulu suffered with temperatures dropping to 64F (the Hawaiian “coolmageddon”), a few miles away...
Caly
Feb 8, 2019
Hanging on during extreme weather!
The time lapses and live climate data that illustrate my life on top of a mountain sometimes fail to show the extreme weather native...
plantcam team
Jan 18, 2019
What do Caly and pineapples have in common?
If you answered they are both from Hawaii, sorry but pineapples are from South America! Ok, another clue: What do Caly, pineapples and...
Caly
Dec 20, 2018
There is a perfectly reasonable scientific explanation for this
Behold the human laulau (a.k.a. Ryan Mudd) adjusting camera settings while hiding from the powerful glaring sun on Caly's ridge. But in...
Caly
Dec 13, 2018
A sunlight story
Being a plant, I use visible light from the sun as my energy source to harvest carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and turn it into my...
plantcam team
Nov 11, 2018
A year in the life of an endangered plant
A year ago, we were out in the field working furiously to try to get our plantcam project set up after weeks of work up in the ridge and...
plantcam team
Nov 3, 2018
Caly’s flowering and fruiting is over...
Check the animation below for the entire time lapse of this year's flowering and fruiting! Overall, it was not a great fruiting year, but...
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