#boryaceae

Unlike the other Borya species I’ve found before, this one doesn’t form thickets of tiny tree-like branches and mimiature forests on exposed granite. Instead it has stems that lie on the ground, with narrow needle-like leaves pointing up. It was growing in laterite soil at the bottom of a granite boulder slope, however.

Borya scirpoidea

A small, very spiky plant that grows on outcrops of granite, drying out to a bright orange in the drier seasons, but turning green again come the winter rains. It was interesting to see the flowerheads on this trip, since I had no idea they were held so far above the rest of the plant, nor that they were even spikier than the rest of it.