Fairchild Botanical Gardens

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Aloe on a rock

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Is this a kind of yucca?

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What was I focusing on here?

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A succulent tree-- what exactly is this?

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I really like this plant - can anyone there tell us more about it?

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Close up of the "leaves"

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Older "stems" become woody too.

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Cacti?

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Another tree like thingy

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Random shot

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Prickly pear?

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Reminds me of a crowd of people

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Group Shot!!

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Another kind of Aloe?

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variegated

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This is from another part of fairchild but I noticed the plants are similar

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One of my favorite - whatever it is.

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Deserves a second look

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Agave?

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kinda stumpy but cute

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Group shot

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This one I know----Macdougal's Century Plant

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Lets take another look at it

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Is this cactus dehydrated?

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grows on rocks too!

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would you consider this a shrub?

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Cool green leaves and creamy yellow flowers-- nice combination

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close up

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My parting shot of the Madagascar Garden

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On my way out I passed this flowering ornamental banana

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Alo on the way out -- one of my all time favorite plants-- Victoria Amazonica.

Too bad the leaves we not fully grown.

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I understand that a lot of enthusiasts start this plant from seed every year bcase it usually doesn't susrvive the winter.

Living in the tropics I was once able to keep mine alive for over 3 years.

I accidentally killed it though -- I added algae killer to my pond water to make the water clearer.  It killed the Giant waterlilly faster than it killed the algae. It was false advertising   the bottle said "not harmful to waterplants.    :

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So that concludes my travelog of my 2 hour stay at Fairchild Tropical Gardens.

I have another set of pictures for the folowing Saturday of that week.

Will post those soon too.

Thanks for looking

[Peter]

Fantastic images Gene-love that Madagascar section.

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Oh, and your tree like thingy's are Pachypodiums; I believe the large one is P. rutenbergianum, and the smaller looks like P. lamerii.  Ron, help me out here if I'm wrong.

[Kim]

Very entertaining!  I can tell you had a lot of fun at Fairchild, what an amazing place, awesome collection, and you did a lot of work documenting and presenting your visit.  Thank you!