蕉坑生態紀錄 2015.7.19 tsiu hang, sai kung record

每年大概一兩次到西貢這個自然教育中心。剛過去的星期天又去了一次。這次適逢夏天，植物昆蟲跟過去的景況又很不同了。

觀察、欣賞、學習大自然，同一個地方，不同時段，每個季節，已經是不同的世界，趣味無窮。

i visit this nature education centre once or twice every year. just did one this past sunday. every time i will make a record of living things spotted.

this is how i appreciate and learn about nature, same place different time of the day and year. trees can be flowering this season and shedding leaves the other; insects are more active and abundant in the warm season. so many to see and sense all around the year.

木荷 chinese guger-tree (schima superba) – 花期剛過果初結 early fruit as flower period finished not long ago
大木林蜘蛛 giant wood spider (nephila pilipes) – 夏天的郊野到處可見他們的巨網。此為雌蜘蛛，雄性的比她們小很多。we can see them a lot during summer.this is a female, male spider of this species is much much much smaller.
香水連翹 golden dewdrop (duranta erecta) – 燦爛花期 blossoming
望江南 coffee senna (senna occidentalis) – 與決明同屬，原生於南美。種子可代作咖啡用。 this plant is native to south america and people there use the seed as substitute of coffee.
赬桐 pagoda flower (clerodendrum japonicum) – 花盛開 bloom time
豬屎豆 smooth critalaria (crotalaria pallida)
單穗水蜈蚣 white kyllinga (kyllinga nemoralis)
楓香 sweet gum – 綠葉正茂 leafing season
毛菍 blood-red melastoma / bristly red-hairy melastoma (melastoma sanguineum)
缺葉藤 champion’s bauhinia (bauhinia championii) – 葉裂很容易分辨。但嫩葉的葉裂不明顯。the leaf shape is so distinguished, but mind you young leaves may not have such clear characteristics
蛺蝶 a nymphalidae
猴歡喜 monkey-pod (archidendron clypearia)－果期 a young fruit
大沙葉 hong kong pavetta (pavetta hongkongensis bremek) －果期 immature fruit
嶺南槭 tutcher’s maple (acer tutcherii) – 新翅果 new samara
石筆木 common tutcheria (tutcheria championii) – 果期(蒴果) young capsule
遍地野菌 wild mushroom
華南青岡 champion’s oak (cyclobalanopsis championii) – 幼芽。注意芽的底部還附著果子的外殼。 young sprout; check the fruit shell is still at the bottom of the sprout
網脈蜻 fulvous forest skimmer (neurothemis fulvia) – 這裡的常客。 resident here
葫蘆 calabash/bottle gourd (lagenaria siceraria)
矮瓜/茄子 eggplant (solanum melongena)
潺菜 vine spinach (basella alba) – 有紅有白有花有果 there are two species, red and white; they are flowering and some fruit can be seen too
睡蓮 waterlily (nymphaea tetragona)
池塘眾水生植物 water plants around a pond
酢漿灰蝶 pale grass blue (zizeeria maha)
矍眼蝶 common five-ring (ypthima baldus)
黎桑矍眼蝶 straight five-ring (ypthima lisandra)
琉球橘黃蟌 orange-tailed sprite (ceriagrion auranticum)
六角豆 / 毛茄 okra (abelmoschus esculentus) – 正開花 flowering
大斑芫菁/斑蝥 chinese blister beetle (mylabris phalerate) – 牠正津津有味地吃毛茄的花。尾部紅色的不是尾巴而是牠的糞便。this buddy is really busy, eating the okra flower while poo-poo ing (the red substance at its rear)
雞矢藤 chinese feverine (paederia scandens) – 草質藤本。葉對生，橢長圓形。note that this climbing plant is having oblong leaves