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 left:ISS010-E-9279 Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov Baker Island This island is just a tiny, about 1,4 kmē small, uninhabited piece of earth. Nevertheless it emerges up to 8 m above sea level. Until 1891, like many other pacific islands, also Baker Island was mined for guano. The island is home for only a small number of native plant species. |
| Flora of Baker Island (almost complete) (green = pictures) Boerhavia tetrandra, Cassytha filiformis, Cordia subcordata, Digitaria pacifica, Eragrostis paupera, Fimbristylis cymosa, Lepturus repens, Portulaca lutea, Tribulus cistoides, Triumfetta procumbens |
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