So the week finished up pretty well. Thursday was another day of mostly camera trap photo-ing, and Friday was a field day to survey Barleria. We moved quickly through our work on Friday, so I had some time to take pictures of some of the spiny/thorny things we see every day in the field.
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| A euphorb (that's the genus of plants). They kind of look like cacti, but they're not. They have a white sticky sort of sap on the inside that's latex and is apparently really harmful to your eyes if it comes into contact with them. |
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| Close up of the euphorb; you can see the thorns. |
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| Barleria! Those spines are super sharp, and they like to jab into fingers while you're working. This is a small Barleria plant. |
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| A bigger Barleria plant. You can see the white flowers. |
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| Acacia mellifera. The thorns are small, so you'd think they might be less annoying. But you'd be wrong. Those thorns get stuck to your clothing and your skin and do not let go. |
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| Not sharp at all, but a very common thing to run into in the field. This is elephant dung, with my hand in the photo for size comparison. |
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