Tabebuias blooming

[amazondk]

Len,

It was an experience walking around the forest with those guys. The older guy with on the group was the community president in the village where he lives. When young he used to work in the harvest of pau rosa wood from which the extracted oil is shipped to France for the perfume industry, rose wood oil. He would spend months at a time out in the forest in the middle of no where with no more than a machete and a gun. He has a lot of jungle lore stories.

I found an interesting slide show on a Brazilian site about ipes. A Land Blessed with the Ipe It has some nice pictures. And, here are a few pictures I also found on the Brazilian web of ipes. The one in the forest is from the Atlantic Forest not Amazonia. But, it gives an idea of how the trees emerge from the canopy.

[LJG]

Pictures like this is why I had delusions of grandeur in that I could create a Tab forest

[Rafael]

On 4 de abril de 2012, 07:30:25, amazondk said:

Len,

 

It was an experience walking around the forest with those guys. The older guy with on the group was the community president in the village where he lives. When young he used to work in the harvest of pau rosa wood from which the extracted oil is shipped to France for the perfume industry, rose wood oil. He would spend months at a time out in the forest in the middle of no where with no more than a machete and a gun. He has a lot of jungle lore stories.

 

I found an interesting slide show on a Brazilian site about ipes. A Land Blessed with the Ipe It has some nice pictures. And, here are a few pictures I also found on the Brazilian web of ipes. The one in the forest is from the Atlantic Forest not Amazonia. But, it gives an idea of how the trees emerge from the canopy.

I am now growing a seedling of Ipê amarelo, thanks to Jason Baker Portugal