Aquin Forest

Aquin Communal Forest

In December of 2000, Kristen Porter-Utley and I visited the idyllic Haitian town of Aquin. The purpose of our visit was to collect Passiflora suberosa, a passion flower native to Haiti and the Caribbean, for genetic and taxonomic studies and evaluate the ecological status of the communal forest of Aquin. The communal forest of Aquin stretches up into the mountains behind the town of Aquin and overlooks the bay.