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Luis Renato · #11 07-31-2012, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Baz in Oz

Nice set-up Luis!
Could I ask you what the tree in the middle background of photo #1 is? It appears to be an Auricaria of some sort, what we in Australia call a pine tree. I know South America and Australia were joined a few billion years ago and we share a lot of flora families. We have two native Auricarias and Norfolk Island out in the Pacific to our east has it's own native Auricaria and you guys have the 'monkey puzzle tree which is also in the same family.
The fern beside the fish pond in the last photo also looks a lot like one of our native Asplenium ferns locally called 'crow's nest ferns'.
Even the trailing fern hanging in the pond looks a lot like some of our Lycopodium ferns known as 'tassell ferns'.
Are they natives or plants that originated in Australia?

Baz

Hi Baz

The tree in the middle of the first photo is an araucária (Araucaria angustifolia). This species is native to Brazil, mainly here, in Parana. You can see more information here: Araucaria angustifolia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This tree is the symbol of out state.

About the Asplenium, i really don't know more information about it. I bought it in a garden center some years ago and since then it's just decorative.

The Lycopodium fern you are talking about is the one I called Dichaea? This is an orchid, I have three species here:

1149 - Dichaea (red?) por Luis Renato (OnyxBronx), no Flickr

1030 - Dichaea Pendula por Luis Renato (OnyxBronx), no Flickr

1006 - Dichaea cogniauxiana por Luis Renato (OnyxBronx), no Flickr

1006 - Dichaea cogniauxiana por Luis Renato (OnyxBronx), no Flickr

Thanks!

nlm2951 · #12 07-31-2012, 02:31 PM

that orquid is beautiful, I love those rare ones

Connie Star · #13 07-31-2012, 08:34 PM

What a great spot. It makes me want to move to the tropics so I can grow outside all year.

Baz in Oz · #14 07-31-2012, 09:59 PM

Thank for that Luis. I like the flower on your 'fern'.
That Dichaea is a useful plant as you can enter it in the foliage section at shows when it isn't in flower.

Baz

Bud · #15 07-31-2012, 10:44 PM

You have a marvelous Dichaea collection; all of them large specimens. I have two and it is really hard to grow them here up in the NorthEast indoors on a windowsill....I envy your spacious set-up in the warm bright sun...My Vandas would love it there

Luis Renato · #16 08-06-2012, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Bud

You have a marvelous Dichaea collection; all of them large specimens. I have two and it is really hard to grow them here up in the NorthEast indoors on a windowsill....I envy your spacious set-up in the warm bright sun...My Vandas would love it
there

Here is hard too, needs a lot of humidity... but it is growing... so I think it's ok. Here where I live is too cold for vandas... I think that in the north of Brazil is a little easier to keep them!

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Originally Posted by Baz in Oz

Thank for that Luis. I like the flower on your 'fern'.
That Dichaea is a useful plant as you can enter it in the foliage section at shows when it isn't in flower.

Baz

Yeah Baz, it is beautiful without flowers too!

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Originally Posted by Connie Star

What a great spot. It makes me want to move to the tropics so I can grow outside all year.

It's a blessing

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Originally Posted by nlm2951

that orquid is beautiful, I love those rare ones

Here is isn't so rare... it can be found deep in the rainy forest. Look at this:

Dichaea trichocarpa, in situ plant por Daniel-CR, no Flickr

Fabulous, no?

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Pictures of this week:

1168 - Hormidium pygmaeum por Luis Renato (OnyxBronx), no Flickr

1167 - Acianthera alligatorifera por Luis Renato (OnyxBronx), no Flickr

1024 - Thelychiton kingianus por Luis Renato (OnyxBronx), no Flickr

1148 - Brasiliorchis variabilis por Luis Renato (OnyxBronx), no Flickr

1153 - Brasiliorchis bradei por Luis Renato (OnyxBronx), no Flickr

1028 - Ionopsis utricularioides por Luis Renato (OnyxBronx), no Flickr

Thanks!