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Went to New York Botanical Gardens
I went to the New York Botanical Gardens. They has lots of orchids in the conservatory, but they will hold their annual orchid show in about a month.
This time around I went to see what kind of plants that are in the blueberry family (Ericaceae) they had lying around. They had lots!!!!!
Check these out.
Most of these were small plants, and all of them are grown like intermediate temperature orchids, all are epiphytes that grow in cloud forests of Tropical Amercia.
Macleania ericae --- pic 1
Macleania coccoloboides -- pic 2, these are the sepals and the ovary, the petals had fallen off already
Macleania rupestris --pic 3
Ceratostema silvicola -- pic 4
Ceratostema rauhii -- pic 5 I fell in love with this one, it pendant very long about 1 meter plant grown in a basket
Cavendishia allenii -- pic 6, 7
Cavendishia micayensis -- 8, 9 -- a real beauty!!
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Disterigma rimbachii -- 1, 2 -- wow, I fell in love with this one too. Lots of little blueberries and it was a small shrub about 1 foot long half a foot tall clinging on to a rock growing with some liverworts.
NOID - -- pic 3, i couldn't find the tag for this one. But this one was a giant, almost tree like in size.
Macleania insignis -- pic 4
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Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?"
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02-13-2011, 02:37 AM
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I had no idea blueberry plants could be so cool, thanks for posting.
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02-15-2011, 07:34 PM
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When is their orchid show?
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02-15-2011, 09:34 PM
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March 5th to April 25th.
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"We must not look at goblin men,
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02-15-2011, 09:44 PM
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Beautiful plants, Tindomul! Do you know if the berries on these are edible?
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02-15-2011, 09:51 PM
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don't know. But I think maybe they are.
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very cool!
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02-16-2011, 02:42 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tindomul
don't know. But I think maybe they are.
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Mmmm...exotic blueberries!  Hopefully they don't have the neurotoxins found in some members of the Ericaceae... 
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02-16-2011, 09:41 PM
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Thats why I would not want to try them myself.
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