Chile, from the extreme north to the Central Cordilleras

[Lvandelft]

Thanks to a VERY generous Forumist I got an offer! 

[Roma]

Beautiful pictures, Ger.  I seem to remember when you showed the Azorella pictures at a Discussion weekend, someone shouted out 'That's not a cushion, that's a sofa!'

[Maggi Young]

Beautiful pictures, Ger.  I seem to remember when you showed the Azorella pictures at a Discussion weekend, someone shouted out 'That's not a cushion, that's a sofa!'

 

[Hans A.]

Ger, thanks a lot for this great pictures! They cause a lot of wanderlust....    
The Mutisia spec. should be Mutisia subulata fma. rosmarinifolia.

[gervandenbeuken]

many thanks Hans for your help.

[gervandenbeuken]

to use Azorella compacta as a sofa is not a good idea.
It is as hard as stone.
To have an idea of the size. One of the cushions was more than 3 meter square and 1.20 tall.
Students of Gornall university studied these plants for some years and found out that these plants have a growth of about 2 to 3 mm in a year. This means that some of the plants could be more than 1000 years old.