MeanGreen Posted March 20, 2018 I went to the local botanical garden today for a visit about poisonous plants. The visit itself was pretty good, although the guy fucking butchered Banisteriopsis as "Basteniros" or something like that, and at one point the dude whipped a potted loph out of his hand bag (I kid you not) and called it "Lophophora williamson". Mainly showed us some Apocynaceae vines, a couple Solenaceae, some Dieffencbachia, Laurel, Yew, etc... He showed us an Apocynaceae he said some shamans use as an admixture to ayahusca, the name escapes me at the moment and I forgot to take a pic. He showed us their Erythroxylum coca tree which got fucking raped by some mongrels, he said last year it was over 2m tall, there's now only a small 50cm or so shrub left... Anyways, the plants I was most hyped about weren't mentioned, found them by strolling around. here are some pics: - Psychotria peduncularis, wasn't able to ask for a leaf unfortunately but I will come back for it: - Tabernaemontana corymbosa, was able to get a little cutting, hope it'll take it got a bit floppy on the way back home: - Theobroma cacao: - Ilex paraguariensis, for some reason the leaves of their maté have a very different phenotype from my own shrub: - Acacia gourmaensis: - Big Hylocereus undatus: - Huge 3+ meters tall Myrtillocactus geometrizans: - Pereskia grandiflora: - Pereskia saccharosa: - Pereskiopsis diguetti: - Pereskiopsis or maybe Quiabentia? Saw it from outside the greenhouse but wasn't able to find it inside. Unfortunately this greenhouse was closed to the public, spotted a bunch of nice trichos: - Mammillaria elongata: - Cereus jamacaru var. monstrose: - Big ass agave: - Aristolochia gigantea: - View from the entrance of one of the huge tropical greenhouses which was built around 1870: There's so much more I need to take pics of, I will go back there soon. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tøn Posted March 24, 2018 Incredible, thanks for posting 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites