Photos by Bob Thomas, San Miguel Village, Toledo District, Belize, April 2004. Macuna beans are now used in San Miguel by the milpa farmers to nourish the soil with nitrogen […]

Photos taken by Bob Thomas, Rio Matiyure, Hato El Cedral, Apure, Venezuela, June 1991. This is a lovely aquatic plant with rosettes of diamond-shaped leaves.  It is rooted in the […]

Photo by Bob Thomas, Simla (Wm. Beebe Research Station), Trinidad, November 1994. These were growing on small research ponds at Simla.  Salvinia is a highly invasive species that is wreaking […]

Photo by Bob Thomas, Chiqubul Education Centre, Las Cuevas, Cayo District, Belize, May 2012. Several of these where found blooming along the trails.  Very small, but lovely, flowers.

Photos by Bob Thomas, Grande Riviere, Trinidad, June 2004.Photo by Bob Thomas, Trinidad, June 1988. Nutmeg (the nut) and mace (the red aril that is attached to the nutmeg within […]

Photo by Bob Thomas, May 2010. This plant is important in Maya herbal medicine and was growing in Aurora Saqui’s herbal garden in Maya Centre, Stann Creek District, Belize.  For […]

Both photos by Bob Thomas, San Miguel Village, Toledo District, Belize, May 2004. First known to us as “lucky beans,” so called by the Maya in San Miguel, these beans […]