Day 4 was was quiet. We returned to Cuenca from Podocarpus National Park. We only sampled one locality in the paramo Del Carboncillo. We collected one species of Diplostephium (already collected before in a different location) and one species of Llerasia, the latter had beautiful yellow heads with a honey smell. I also bought a new hat in Cuenca. Tomorrow Cajas National Park is waiting for us.
Ecuador day 1
Day one was a lot of driving. The team left Quito around 8:30 and got to Cuenca 6:30. That is 10 hours of driving, no collecting, no photos, sorry. The surprise of the day was a nail longer that any of the field assistant fingers !!! just 20 minutes of delay ! Here the photo of the guy fixing the tire with his mom.
