The botany class took a field trip to the Pohnpei Botanic Garden on 28 October 1999. Many thanks to the Pohnpei Visitors Bureau for access to the garden. The garden is truly a botanical treasure! The following are images from the garden field trip. All pictures were taken during the field trip. Image tags will appear if roll the mouse over the picture. Many are marked "UNK" for unknown fruits. If you can identify an unknown fruit, please let dleeling@comfsm.fm know. The order is roughly in the order we encountered the plants in the garden.
Cycad
Coffee
Black Pepper
Nutmeg
Eucalpytus deglupta
Star Apple
Guava
Cucumber Tree (no cucumbers on it this year)
Bixa orellana
Rubber Tree
Croton
Pineapple
Unknown Columnar Tree
Traveller's Palm
Madagascar Palm?
Palm (Unknown)
Unknowns
Student images