Happy Earth Day kākou! Over the last month, the air has been cleaner than usual up here and the sounds of the natural world are easier to...

The plantCam team made a great finding on it’s last visit to Caly in December. A couple of meters below Caly on the steep moss-covered sl...

How much can the life of an endangered Hawaiian plant change in two years? The answer is a lot! So much happened: recovery after a tree f...

Hot and dry summer periods can be particularly challenging for plants to endure. Comparing the recent late summer period (8/1 and 9/9) be...

This year’s flower bloom was short and intense… Check the image below for the entire animation! Compare it with last year's bloom when I ...

Despite the very dry spring, I am now in full flower! This year, I am joined in flowering by a few of my keiki stems that have been growi...

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, par...

Flower season is approaching! This year, following robust growth by my keiki over the last few months, several of my stems are developing...

Last week, we visited Caly and the monitoring system do some repairs and maintenance. As usual, the scenery eclipsed time on the climb up...

Last Saturday night (2/10) as Honolulu suffered with temperatures dropping to 64F (the Hawaiian “coolmageddon”), a few miles away tempera...

The time lapses and live climate data that illustrate my life on top of a mountain sometimes fail to show the extreme weather native plan...

If you answered they are both from Hawaii, sorry but pineapples are from South America! Ok, another clue: What do Caly, pineapples and sp...

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 a...

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 p...

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 ...

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...

Wow, time sure flies when you’re an endangered plant hanging on the brink! Scientists have already collected one years’ worth of data at ...

This week marks a full year of images taken of the valley where I live from PlantCam's ridge camera. Because images are uploaded every 15...

Back in February after I was nearly killed by a tumbling invasive tree, there seemed to be little hope for one of my two adult stems that...

My friends and I fared well with the storm last week! But it was still quite windy up here! Check the time lapse of the last week and you...