I arranged this collage on a fresh Cecropia leaf with ripe cacao pods from a small grove on the six acre property where we live. I added several yellow florescence and red pods of cecropia trees, pale green pincushion-like pitch apples (and an opened dry brown one resembling a star) from the autograph-leaf tree, a few ferns, sprigs of curry leaves and the flowers of a large bush called Medinilla magnifica that resemble pink chandeliers with dangling clumps of dark pink berries native to the Philippines. We have many and when I moved to Hawaii I was not familiar with the plant  and began using the blossoms for pops of color in my compositions. Another discovery were strawberry guava called Waiawi in Hawaii where they are an invasive but delicious species  the size of a large marble with thin edible lemony-yellow skins and soft pale flesh full of tiny seeds that taste like a sweet-tart strawberry.  They  are also known as Cattley guava in honor of English horticulturist William Cattley.  Native to the Amazon basin of Brazil, they grow prolifically here in Hawaii and are in the Myrtle family.  I also added the feathery tassel-like blooms of the Malabar chestnut native to Mexico and Central and South America, another discovery here in Hawaii. I am attempting to showcase the marvelous trees, pods, leaves, fruit and flowers of the Big Island I now call home and share it with people living elsewhere.