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 hear. Now that I ha...

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 slope, 3 small seedlin...

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 fell, two large flowe...

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

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 clearly was still re...

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 growing vigorously since ...

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, particularly in compari...

Flower season is approaching! This year, following robust growth by my keiki over the last few months, several of my stems are developing flower buds! Can’t w...

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

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

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

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

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 all seriousness, it t...

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 plant tissues (aka ph...

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 gulch below. It was ...

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 still better than e...

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

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 minutes all day lon...

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 was severed right a...

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 can see the whole f...