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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Hans A. on March 30, 2008, 12:07:33 AM
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The last two weeks I have been in Chile and took some photos which I want to share with you - I just vistited the 7th to 9th Region. The Pics are from the "Precordillera" + Andes (Talca - Area) and the Coastal Mountains (Angol - Area).
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Some Mutisias
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So, Hans, this is where you have been! 8) Thank you for sharing your trip with us!
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More in the south differs the Vegetation...
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Are Mutisia hardy in the UK?
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;D - maggi, I would like to take the next plane to turn there.
mark - mutisias should be hardy but it could be to wet.
in humid woodland areas
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And at last: a trip would not be complete without any photo of the National Flower of Chile:
Lapageria rosea.
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Hans, what a delightful "high-speed" tour!
Mark, we have a large Mutisia oligodon hybrid between our sitting room windows..... it was chopped hard back a couple of months ago and is now sprouting again happily. We get occasional seedlings about the place. It grows very strongly and would take over if we let it. In the past we have found growths five to six mteres long inside the eaves where it has come in through a tiny gap and gone walkabout..... long shoots with tiny blanched leaves.... searching through the eaves.....quite spooky really!
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Hans, what a delightful "high-speed" tour!
;D - I hope next time I will be able to be there more time - this photos I took last year when I had more time (3 weeks) 8)
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Thanks for this little Andean trip Hans, lovely things you've seen. I'm especially pleased to see Rhodophiala splendens, as I think it is the same as what I have from seed under a BCW collection (but no number) which I assume is Beckett, Cheese and Watson. The red colour and the shape is just like mine, finished flowering just a couple of weeks ago, but as well, in the same pot there are a couple of seedlings one a soft lemon yellow and the other the same colour with a pink midrib, presumably all from the same group in the wild.
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I enjoyed your picture tour Hans, thank you for posting them.
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A trip to Chile is one high in my 'wants list" ;)
Beautiful pics. The Desfontaineas are beautiful: the second, redder one, is very special.
Did you spot Philesia magellanica in the wild?.
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Thankyou Hans for this whizz round Chile. I love the three colour forms of lapagerea rosea, not seen that pale pink one before, and the mutisia look an interesting lot too.
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Hans,
Welcome back. Stunning pictures!
Are the Araucarias stands from Nahuelbuta?
And the Rhodophiala splendens also?
Fine rosulate violas !
Gerd
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Congratulations Hans, a truly wonderful journey to paradise. Will you require a porter for your next visit?
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Great to see the ferns too!
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Thanks to all of you - I have been several times in Chile and I still have left so many areas to visit (I will think about porter the next time ;)). Philesia magellanica I found more in the south some years ago - Gerd you are right the photos of the Araucarias are taken in Nahuelbuta - Rhodophiala splendens in the Precordilliera near Talca - I was to late to see any Rhodophiala in bloom this year - I found a few seeds where I saw Rhodolphiala montana in flower last year.
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Hans wonderful lapageria in such colours.The rest of yourpictures are good to but they are my favorite.I am away at the moment but will reply to your email when I get back home in a couple of days
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Hans
Did you organise the trip on your own? - just like Tony Willis
If you wanted travelling companions, I can think of 2 friends who would jump at a chance to see the Chilean flora
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Hello Arthur,
I organise the trip by myself with the help of some friends there - long distances by coaches (very good coach services), the short (to the national parks or other locations) in normal cars or 4X4.
Will see when I will go there next time...
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Hans
Thanks for info
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Fantastic pics Hans. Thanks for showing us all these wonderful plants. That Rhodophiala montana looks particularly spectacular. I've seen photos of the yellow Rhodophialas before but never yet grown any. They're such a wonderfully forgiving plant, in fact thriving on complete neglect. I've just recently crossed my normal red bifida and a good pink "hybrid" to see the results. Great to see these wild ones.
Lesley,
Your Rhodophiala sound lovely with their colour combinations. Any pictures?
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Not this time Paul. They started to flower in December and I kept waiting for the next bud to open but by then the previous one had gone off. There have been single or sometimes two flowers out at a time for a full 4 months. Unfortunately there has been no seed at all either. I did post a pic of the first (and only) flower last summer/autumn it must have been and probably on a SH thread, can't remember, and it was the lemon one so when the first this year was soft red, I was very surprised. When they die down I'll separate out the bulbs and pot or plant individually.
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Lesley,
Was worthwhile asking, just in case you'd taken pics. Rhodophialas are all very cool!! 8)