Foreign Red Among Native Foliage

Michel Salas was walking through the property when he came across something that didn't quite fit: a hibiscus shrub in full bloom, its reddish-pink double-petaled flowers opening to the afternoon sun. Striking, without a doubt. But *Hibiscus rosa-sinensis* doesn't belong here — it arrived, like so many ornamental plants, because someone once decided to brighten up a garden. The palm trees in the background and the clear sky completed a scene that was almost tropical postcard-perfect. Except that at Fundación Loros, that kind of postcard comes with nuance: what dazzles doesn't always belong. The record now lives in the property's inventory at coordinates 10.4474, -75.2618 — a footnote about what grows across these 520 hectares, the native and the arrived.