#flathal #flatstanley #costarica #limon #biodiversity
Limon offered Flat Hal and Flat Stanley the chance to discover new plants, animals, and more alongside things they discovered on our trip to the South Pacific. They saw the lipstick plant before, and marveled at the shape and color of what grew on it, having no idea until they saw it done today how easy it was to crush the seeds and suddenly have paint on your fingers.
I was not expecting to see torch ginger, and other plants we learned about in the South Pacific while on the East Coast of Central and/or South America… but it turns out, Costa Rica is only 75 miles wide at one point… that’s just 75 miles separating the Pacific from the Caribbean! That doesn’t seem all that far when I consider the hundreds of miles between islands that had the same plants.
Costa Rica covers only about 0.03% of the Earth’s landmass
but contains approximately 5-6% of the world’s biodiversity!