Hawaiʻi · built from collector-recorded evidence only
The timing calendar
Which months has each species been recorded flowering and fruiting, on which islands, and how many specimens is that based on? Search a plant below, or scan the whole collection month by month.
Everything here comes from what a collector wrote down in front of the plant. Nothing is guessed from a word search.
297
Hawaiian species with recorded timing
91
of those recorded fruiting at least once
4,923
dated records behind the whole calendar
Read this first
A peak drawn from four specimens is not a pattern. So every species shows how many records it rests on, and thin ones are labelled too few to read as a pattern rather than drawn as if they were solid. Right now 50 of 546 species clear ten dated records. Getting a thousand species to that line is a matter of loading more specimens and paying people to score them — the software that produced these already runs on its own.
Hawaiian specimens the collector recorded as fruiting · see all 160 →
fruiting
fruiting
fruiting
fruiting
fruiting
fruitingField photographs recorded in fruit — the densest Hawaiian evidence available · otes, Ocean Fleskes, Dulcey Lima, Eric Jain and others, licensed under Creative Commons · see the coverage →
Every record, by month
4,923 dated records
- fruiting · 1,669
- flowering · 3,883
- budding · 264
Look up a species
50 of 546 species have ten or more dated records
Most species are marked too few to read as a pattern. That is the honest state of the evidence today, and it is shown rather than hidden. Loading more specimens and scoring more of them is exactly what closes the gap.
What this calendar still cannot tell you
Every record behind these months says only fruiting. None says whether the fruit was green or ripe. No museum vocabulary records that distinction — we checked.
Which is unfortunate, because that is the one thing a crew leader needs to know: pull it before the seed is viable, not after. The answer is visible in the specimen photograph and nowhere else. Getting it out takes people who know plants marking up images, and a model trained on what they mark — which is what the annotation bench and the fruit and seed head exist to produce.