Trip to Chile

[Hans A.]

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).

[Hans A.]

Some Mutisias

[Maggi Young]

So, Hans, this is where you have been!  Thank you for sharing your trip with us!

[Hans A.]

More in the south differs the  Vegetation...

[mark smyth]

Are Mutisia hardy in the UK?

[Hans A.]

  - 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

[Hans A.]

And at last: a trip would not be complete without any photo of the National Flower of Chile:
Lapageria rosea.

[Maggi Young]

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!

[Hans A.]

Hans, what a delightful "high-speed" tour!

  - 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)

[Lesley Cox]

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.

[David Nicholson]

I enjoyed your picture tour Hans, thank you for posting them.

[Iturraran]

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?.

[Brian Ellis]

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.

[Gerdk]

Hans,
Welcome back. Stunning pictures!
Are the Araucarias stands from Nahuelbuta?
And the Rhodophiala splendens also?
Fine rosulate violas !

Gerd

[ranunculus]

Congratulations Hans, a truly wonderful journey to paradise. Will you require a porter for your next visit?