Caly's milestones

In this page you will find out more about what has recently happened in Caly's life, but the wider community around her- from nearby plants to the people that move rare plant conservation forward in Hawaii.

Caly

Dec 24, 2019

Ending 2019 on a positive note!

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...

Caly

Dec 9, 2019

Two years in the life of Caly

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...

plantcam team

Sep 12, 2019

Feeling the heat

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...

Caly

Jun 25, 2019

Time lapse of this year’s flower bloom!

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...

Caly

Jun 20, 2019

Flower season is here!

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 ...

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, particularly in compari...

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 flower buds! Can’t w...

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 the mountain to whe...

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 temperatures at the ridge d...

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 plants like me endure......

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 spiral galaxies have i...

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 all seriousness, it t...

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 plant tissues (aka ph...

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 gulch below. It was ...

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 still better than e...

Caly

Oct 19, 2018

Weather and climate up here in the Waianae mountains

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 ...

Caly

Oct 5, 2018

A year on top of a ridge on Oahu

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...

Caly

Sep 7, 2018

A second chance at Lyon Arboretum

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...

Caly

Aug 31, 2018

Post Hurricane Lane update

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...

Caly

Aug 22, 2018

Bracing for Hurricane Lane!

As Hurricane Lane approaches and people hurriedly prepare for it, it is good to remember that many rare Hawaiian plants like me are also very vulnerable to l...

Life of Caly

The life of an endangered plant on top of a mountain in Hawaiʻi

Ending 2019 on a positive note!

Two years in the life of Caly

Feeling the heat

Time lapse of this year’s flower bloom!

Flower season is here!

A dry spring on the Waianae range

Young stems getting ready to flower this year!

Into the field

Winter cold and micro-refugia

Hanging on during extreme weather!

What do Caly and pineapples have in common?

There is a perfectly reasonable scientific explanation for this

A sunlight story

A year in the life of an endangered plant

Caly’s flowering and fruiting is over...

Weather and climate up here in the Waianae mountains

A year on top of a ridge on Oahu

A second chance at Lyon Arboretum

Post Hurricane Lane update

Bracing for Hurricane Lane!