BOTANICAL INVENTORY CIRCA 2002

I have been collecting, propagating and planting seriously for some time now.  This historical inventory, lacks rigor with the names as a whole, many are common.

This inventory is part of history. The  intention, is to set trends in terms of gardening installation practices and maintenance in Puerto Rico, USA, or the concrete/asphalt isle.

There are no blogs with this focus, at least, there were none in those years in the Caribbean.
The only similar blog in this respect was endemismotrasnochado.blogspot , and currently, antigonum cajan evening post.

But CBR will move more towards botanical names without the sterility,  Mandarin, useless academic register, ivory tower characteristic of universities
and botanical gardens of the world.  This unreachable register  found in every botanical publication available in the wild web is absurd. Botany does not have to be the linguistic labyrinth that all publications and institutions of higher education pretend it to be. That is that for now.

BOTANICAL INVENTORY

circa 2002/04

Bayamon, Puerto Rico

Asparagus

Alocasia cucullata

Areca

Aglaonema

Acalypha

Alpinia roja/variegada

Anacaguita

Anthurium

Allamanda

Bauhinia

Bromelias

Bambusa

Beaucarnia

Cariaquillo

Convulvulus

Cuphea

Coleus

Cordyline

Chinese violet

Croton

Coccolova uvifera

Cafe de la India

Clerodendron thomsonae

Clivia marginata

Cipres

Caesalpina

Carica papaya

Cassia

Crinum

Colocasia

Caledium

Cestrum diurnum

Dracaena marginata

Diffenbachia

Euphorbia

Episcia

Erithalis fruticosa

Ficus benjamina/pumila

Gardenia augusta

Garrapata

Helechos

Hibiscus

Heliconia

Hippeastrum

Hawortia

Hosta

Ixora

Ipomoea batata

Josefina

Jazmin

Mangle rojo/boton

Musa

Mezquite

Oxalis

Philodendron

Pandanus

Pothos

Portulaca

Plumeria acustifolia/lutea/rubra

Delonix regia

Ruelia

Rhoeo spathacea

Rauvolfia caffra

Sanseveria

Spider plant

Strelitzia reginae

Stapelia pulvinata 

Syngonium

Tibouchina orangensis

Turnera ulmifolia

Tradescantia pallida/zebrina

Terminalia catapa

Ucar 

 

During that time I was not yet the critical, abrasive, blunt critic I am now. That explains some plants, trees, palms, turf, trimmer, lawnmower, gas/oil in the picture then. 

I have changed and developed  views regarding the collection and horticultural, gardening practices in the Caribbean, not very different from the feeble minded ones in trend now or then in the concrete/asphalt isle, mostly in the urban context.

Setting trends is my goal, not groupies, recognition or agreement from the other side. I believe that action is demonstrated with the walking. I talk the walk and vice versa. Until then.