BOTANICAL FAMILIES SPECIES AND ORIGINS

The more I investigate the more irritating the situation becomes.  If you try to search anything under botanical inventories for Puerto Rico, nothing appears with/under, the figurative 'botanical' gardens anywhere in this territory of USA.

However, if you search under  New York Botanical Garden, then you will find useful historical, botanical information and illustrations to identify whatever it is you need to find out in your collection.

The tropical academicians on these backwaters, writing dense, unintelligible papers on water, soil, vegetation, flora/fauna in the web, make sure only the anointed and initiated, members of their primitive feudal guilds understand the absurd language concoctions they write for money, prestige, being known among the tribes.


I am sharing this inventory because no one else is. Botany should be accessible, not necessarily in the Sherlock Holmes or Phillip Marlowe like mysteries of unknown/endemic species,  these tropical cloak and dagger 'scientists' pretend it to be and remain. Screw them.

25 CHOSEN ONES

1.  Aglaonema commutatum
2.  Allamanda cathartica
3.  Alocasia cucullata
4.  Aloe vera
5.  Alternatera brasiliana
6.  Antigonun leptopus
7.  Asparagus densiflorum
8.  Asistacia gangetica
9.  Bauhinia monandra
10.  Bixa orellana
11.  Bouganvillea buttiana
12.  Brunfelsia pauciflora
13.  Calliandra haemathocephala
14.  Cataranthus roseus
15.  Cestrum diurnum
16.  Chrysothemis pulchella
17.   Clitoria ternatea
18.  Coccoloba uvifera
19.  Cosmos sulphereus
20.  Costus malortianus
21.  Cuphea hyssopifolia
22.  Dieffenbachia maculata
23.  Dracaena marginata
24.  Eucharis amazonica
25.  Euphorbia pulcherrima

The numbers below match those above with family and origin
Reference
Tropical Ornamentals
W. Arthur Whistler
Timber Press 2000 

1.   ARACEAE      S.E.  Asia

2.   APOCYNACEAE     S. America

3.   ARACEAE                 S.E. Asia

4.   AGAVACEAE            N. Africa

5.   AMARANTHACEAE   Brazil

6.   POLYGONAECEAE   Mexico

7.   LILIACEAE                   S. Africa

8.   ACANTHACEAE          India

9.   FABACEAE             Venezuela

10. BIXACEAE           West Indies

11. NYCTANACEAE  Brazil

12. SOLANACEAE     Brazil

13. FABACEAE        Brazil-Bolivia

14. APOCYNACEAE    MADAGASCAR

15. SOLANACEAE    C. America

16. GESNERIACEAE "        "

17. FABACEAE       T. America

18. POLYGONACEAE  T. America

19. ASTERIACEAE   Mexico

20. ZINGIBERACEAE  Costa Rica

21. LYTHACEAE       N.S.  America

22. Araceae               T. America

23. AGAVACEAE      Madagascar

24. AMARYLLIDACEAE Ecuador

25. EUPHORBIACEAE   Mexico

It is worth mentioning that number ten is a ONE and ONLY.  

Tropical America the winner with 4.
Brazil and Mexico even with 3.
North Africa, Madagascar and Central America tied with 2.


This inventory represent one quarter of the collection or twenty five percent, of those identified with botanical names.  The information tells whatever the reader would like to infer.

I declare to end, one thing, to pretend changing the botanical globalization taken place or the one centuries old, is a lame project.   In the case of Puerto Rico, no member of the fauna club will request identity papers to the vegetation providing a home and food.

The arguments presented by members of the biological/botanical claque of academicians for this or that are debatable.

If you practice gardening, the self sustainable type, do not depend on nurseries to increase your plant collection, knowing what is what will allow to solve any problems in the garden, during your life and that of your plants. 

Apago i me voy..

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