Fairchild Botanical Gardens

[Gbarce]

Is this plant similar to the red petioled plant?  What are they ?

[Scott Cohen]

i did not read the last 500 posts, but that red euphorbia on your 1st pg is

E. Punicia, its a beauty!

[Gbarce]

Random

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Random again

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Just too lazy to come up with a blurb for this one

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Cacharadon silver- I have a couple of these,  They have nasty hooked thorns

[Gbarce]

I like the tiger stripes on this one

[Gbarce]

closer look

[Gbarce]

close up of teh flower of the euphorbia.  awesome color

[Gbarce]

These Alcantarea Imperialis are really majestic in my eyes

[Gbarce]

Macrozamias-- not sure of the specific species

[Gbarce]

Succulents on the rocks (sounds like a drink)

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Bromeliads were planted in the understory-  I always thought that they needed more light than this to grow best.

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THis is an example of the formal path...

[Gbarce]

... but at Fairchilds feel free to get of the path and explore-- you're sure to find something...

[Gbarce]

... like giant sized Philodendrons

[Gbarce]

Really weird leaves

[Gbarce]

Awesome and bizarre at the same time.  This is an Alocasia or Colocasia-- can someone explain the difference to me?

[ariscott]

How many photos did you take there, Gene?? Must've been heaps :).

Regards, Ari

[Gbarce]

Both days combined probably a thousand.  

You gotta love digital cameras.  The 1 gigabyte memory cards  helped a lot too-- gave me total freedom.  Just panicked reckless shooting.

[www.dadluvsu.com]

Post 472 and 473 are a Borassus hybrid aethiopum X i forgot..

and I believe your 466 is a P. vinifera... ???

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There is just way wayyy too much to take in at Fairchild in one trip!  You did a great job!

[Gbarce]

Will- I agree.  If you know in the back of your head that you have a limited time to explore Fairchild you tend to get overwhelmed.

I envy you guys that live in florida-- you get to make a visit anytime you like.  Its a shame that we don't have anything similar here in the Philippines.  Really ironic considering that we are here in the tropics

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Sounds like you have identified the problem Gene...  It seems you may have your work cut out for you! ::

[Gbarce]

Hmmmm.... start my own botanical garden...hmmmm... the family does have some idle land.....hmmmm......

I'll let that simmer in my brain in the mean time.

Neat thing with Fairchild is that it is planned out to have really jumbled up areas that you really have to explore slowly (like the rainforest and the conservatory) where you tend to focus on the individual plants and you have wide open spaces where you appreciate it as a garden as a whole.  This shot is like a combinatinof both aspects.

[Gbarce]

THis is a very beautiful tree.  It was in full bloom and was completely devoid of leaves.

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Closer shot

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Palm shoppers leaving with their loads

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Back at the sale area...

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Some of the award winning palms

[Gbarce]

Dioone edule I think.  Really nice specimen.  I don't think I've sen any as big as this here in my country.

[Gbarce]

Sale plants in from and full grown specimens in teh background nice contrast.  One of the nice things about having the sale at the Palmetum

[Gbarce]

I sure hope I didn't piss of any of the vendors.  I was taking a lot of pictures and was very nosey with camera.  I think it was obvious that I was just a curious tourist.

I wonder how old these Pseudophoenix eckmanii are?

[Gbarce]

Cuban palms in pots-- I was really itching to buy some of these.