Miranda's+Journal

Observations: • There are cacti and some kind of fern pod, lava rocks, small purple flowers • Night Blooming Cereus • There are black bees, butterflies, and ants Free Journaling: We went back in the morning to see if we could see the Night Blooming Cereus in bloom, but we did not. I did notice that there were a lot more wild life out and about. Such as birds (cardinal), bees, and geckos. We also found a hidden path that had a lot of lava rock, trees, and more Night Blooming Cereus. We will look into that area on our next visit. Rocky Hill over looks Punahou Campus. We are doing our research near the top of Rocky Hill where there is more likely to be wild life. So far we have made two visits to Rocky Hill. The first time wasn't very successful and we saw not much wild life. It gets very hot on Rocky Hill and was probably the reason why there weren't very much wild life present. When we made our second trip, which was very early in the morning it was much cooler and there were a lot more birds, bees, and geckos out and about. We made that trip early in the morning hoping to see the Night Blooming Cereus in bloom, but alas it was not. We would have to go much earlier to see them in bloom. While looking around I discovered a path that was hard to see because the Night Blooming Cereus was on top of the lava rock that surrounded the path. We went down and found lots of trees and even what looked like a lava tube. It was maybe 4 ft by 4 ft big. We did not have enough time to look into the area more, but we will do so on our next visit.

Niche: On our second visit to Rocky Hill during the morning time we saw many birds flocking in the vast patches of Night Blooming Cereus. Im assuming that some of them could be nesting in that area. We also see big black bees around the area, there are not many flowers in our area except for the Night Blooming Cereus and a very small unidentified purple flower. I can make an assumption that maybe the Black Bees pollinate from the Night Blooming Cereus. I did more research and found that the Dragon Fruit comes from this species of Night Blooming Cereus. I don't believe our Night Blooming Cereus //will// produce any fruit, but I did notice that when we were up there I took pictures and noticed in one of the photos that there was, what looked like, a Dragon Fruit. I will continue to research more on this.

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