BOTANICAL RELOCATION PROPAGATION REPORT

T his is not a scholastic, or pedantic botanical publication. Even though, some rigor is present in terms of the inventory; doing research without the need of  third parties, except the web.

A new inductee not mentioned before, but in the collection for a while, Cnidoscolus chayamansa, a medicinal bush, small tree is now officially among the over One Hundred Club. 


On the medicinal, edible or poisonous side of plants let the record show that I may get on the subject in the future thanks to people researching and arriving to the blogs.


For example, Turnera subulata and Clitoria ternatea.  The flowers of one are edible and the other is medicinal.  The researchers are from Asia and apparently these species have some commercial importance. Your humble servant never thought of it, having to research and share whatever comes along in the future.

A pink Plumeria in the south garden moved to pot, along a Crinum asiaticum variegated.  Both showing signs of  leaf fungus disease that may be or not in the ground.  The second is looking better already, the other has no leaves.


4 Tithymaloides, 1 variegated, planted in Diva's Zen like water closet by the wall and 1 Pseuderantemun carruthersii was planted close by.


Two Hibiscus were relocated in the south garden. One refuses to bloom and will certainly become a conversation piece. The other with light pink flowers went the opposite side south wise. 


The shadow created by the Passiflora edulis and Merremia quinquefolia on the property line iron fence,  forced the move.  Both were becoming crooked thanks to phototropism.  These vines appear in  photos to your right.


During the last 3 weeks the temperature has been an average of ten degrees lower than usual.  It has been great for people, the Flora/Fauna in me garden.


This reminds me that probably thanks to the pine needles and certainly to the apperance of that scary somewhat Bipalium Kewense, the numbers of snails and slugs dominant in the south/north garden has decreased to insignificant numbers considering the damage on leaves.  


Regarding this beautiful insect recently discussed in this here space, it is not the flat variety but the cylindrical species, more handsome in my opinion. Not only in anatomy, but in color.  If you want a peek go to youtube....with the botanical or Planarians, as the populace may know it.

 That is that.

  Apaga i vete.

BOTANICAL INVENTORY ONE HUNDRED CLUB

I have difficulty conceiving a collection/garden without the botanical 

identification of everything within reach.

The majority of this collection,

fortunately, is not from commercial nurseries.

Allium

Alocasia cucullata

Aglaonema Commutatum

Allamanda cathartica

Arashis hypogea

Amarilys

Anthurium

Asparagus sprengeri/meyeri

Aloe vera

Alternatera brasiliana

Asystacia gangetica

Andropogon citratum

Antigonon leptopus

Bryophylum pinnatum

Bauhinia monandra

Brunfelsia pausiflora

Barleria repens

Bouganvillea buttiana

Bixa orellana

Cestrum diurnum

Calathea loeseneri

Calledium hortulanum

Capsicum florescens

Carica papaya 

Citrus sinensis

Citrus aurantifolia

Clitoria ternatea

Costus malortanus

Chrysothemis pulchella

Coccoloba uvifera
Clerodendrum quadriculare ***
Clorophytum comosum ***

Clorophytum diurnum

Calliandra haemathocephala

Catharantus roseus

Cosmos sulphureous

Commelina elegans

Cuphea hyssopifolia

Crinum asiaticum

Centrosema pubescens

Datura stramonium
Dipteracanthus prostratus **

Dracaena marginata

Diffenbachia amoena

Daylilly
Duranta repens

Eucharis amazonica

Euphorbia tirucallis/pulcherrima

Epiphylum oxypetalum

Gardenia augusta

Guaicum officinale

Gloriosa rothschildiana

Hibiscus cannabinus

Hemerocallis

Hippobroma longiflora

Ixora

Ipomoea aegiptia/quamoclit

Jasminum undulatum

Lipia micromera
Hippeastrum reticulatum
Manihot esculenta
Merremia quinquefolia
Merremia umbelata
Murraya paniculata
Mirabilis siciliana
Malpighia glabra/coccigera
Myosotis
Neomarica caerulea
Nephrolepsis
Ochna thomasiana
Oxalis
Origanum vulgare
Phalaenopsis
Passiflora foetida/pallida l./edulis
Peperomia pellucida
Petroselinum crispum
Pandanus utilis
Pereskia bleo
Proiphys amboinensis
Pithelobium dulce
Pseuderantemum reticulatum
Pleomeles reflexa
Polyscia balfouriana/fruticosa
Plectantrus amboinicus
Pedilanthus thithymaloides/tuberose
Plumeria rubra/alba

Rosmarinus officinale
Ruellia officinale/brittoniana/
tuberosa
Sanseveria trifasciata/cylindrica
Scadoxus
Syngonium
Serpol tuymusser pyllum
Solanum lycopersicum 
Stigmaphyllon floribundum
Thilandsia
Thumbergia alata/erecta
Trimezia martinisencis
Tulbagia violacea


Turnera ulmifolia/diffusa/subulata
Tradescantia pallida/zebrina
Urena lobata
Wedelia trilobata
Zephirantes nelsoni/citrina/grandiflora
Zingiber officinalis
Zammia






 

To be continued...

My garden should become with time a point of reference to measure others.  But my intention is to leave a mark with some rigor in the history of horticultural trends in the island of

concrete/asphalt,

something lacking anywhere I look. 

** Rediscovered on 02/02/2011
*** Added on 03/16/2011
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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..

1.  

DUNE REFORESTATION IN PUERTO RICO

AS  usual, down this here mean concrete/asphalt usa territory, where its native and ilegally imported sad people will pass away of nothing, some
good willing feeble minded islanders, probably tripping on green fads under acid/amphetamines
or just unemployment and heat, created a group DUNES SAVIORS OF ISABELA, with adolescent indecent exposure in where else, feisbuk.

I a son of a beach if there is one, pondered about this act out of boredom.
Immediately inquiring about the botanical list of plants, ground covers, trees and bushes to be planted in such a humanitarian effort to save dunes in the locality mentioned or any where else if I may.

The jerks responded that another jerk ghost, some Papo Vives would provide the list.  The invisible one never did.

Six months later, your humble servant will provide the inventory list from a public document in my hands since 1980, when I started what would become a legendary effort in the shallow
gardening blog scene, three decades later.

Sporobolus virginicus 

Spartina paten

Ipomoea pre-caprae

Scaveola plumieri

Lippia nodiflora

Canavalia maritima

Sesuvium portulacastrum

Remirea maritima

Ipomoea stolonifera

Bidens pilosa

Chamaesyca buxifolia

Tephrosia cinerea

Cyperus planifolius

Sanseveria guianensis

Diodia maritima

Achyranthes indica

Wedelia trilobata

Pectis humifusa

Mollugo verticillata

Boerhavia diffusa

Emilia sanchifolia

Let the record show that I do not pretend that everyone move to New York to get a certificate in Commercial Horticulture Landscape Management as I did during 2000/02, in the New York Botanical Garden.

What I  expect is RESEARCH, when  I started on this adventure 1969, with my first letter published in a local newspaper, my views were not based on notions, study and research, just impressions based on a critical not fuck you, but focus.

DUNE RESTORATION IN PUERTO RICO

A manual for environmental managers

Ramon F. Martinez

Luis Encarnacion

Luz M. Cruz

Department of 007 Natural Resources

Government of Puerto Rico, USA.

1983

Apagad e iros

To Ricky Lopez in Aibonito
Arboles de Puerto Rico
Amigos del Bosque San Patricio
Sierra Club
Puertorriquenhos identificando
i no se que mierda nunca me acuerdo.


Por que las buenas intenciones de idiotas e ignorantes, siempre quedan,
se vuelven agua i sal.

I

SCENTS OF SMELL POST

T his inventory was previously posted in the evening post.   I will probably post again many of those lists, since that is part of the intention.  References from now on will be on request only.

Cestrum nocturnum

Crinum armericanum v. roustum

Crinum asiaticum *

Eucharis grandiflora *

Gardenia jasminoides *

Hedychiums, especially H. coronatium

Jasmines *

Murraya paniculata *

Osmanthus fragrans

Pancratium zeylanicum

Pandorea jasminoides

Passifloras **

Plumerias **

Polianthes tuberosa *

Stephanotis floribunda

Tabernamontana coronaria

Trachelospermum jasminoides

Zephyrantes chlorosolen

Most people with notions of botanical names are aware of the utility of research and investigation.  If you have a question about a disease, diagnose, propagation, planting, pruning and transplanting issues the answer is at your hand in the web.

I am not in the mode of asking others regarding situations in my zone 11,

concrete and salty micro climate.

* In my collection

** 3 varieties of each 

FOLLOW UP TO PREVIOUS ONE

S ome time ago I wasted my time trying to connect with some Vegetarian Priestess, Magha Garcia,
in related themes of agricultural, medicinal and cooking herbs.

She from the concrete/asphalt wild west in turn had some relation with some priest, a ghost if you ask me,
Papo Vives. Both created one of those still live blogs: yerbabruja.blogspot.com.  Your humble servant appears as a collaborator but the two scumbags have published 3 transcendental posts, in twenty four months. The only good thing in yerbabruja is my inventory of 2009!

Back in the studio, to our previous post regarding plants found in almost every home in Puerto Rico, before the nurseries for the feeble minded became custom and use, here is a list for those interested.

COOKING

Rosmarinus officinale

Origanum vulgare

Ocimun basilicum

Capsicum annuum/frutescens

Coriandrum sativum

Medicinal Department

Pepperomia pellucida

Petroselinum crispun

Aloe vera

Bryophylum pinatum

When I was a child, my mother kept some of these plants in our mostly concrete backyard.  I remember being cured with Aloe for burns and ear ache with Bryophylum. I was probably in third grade of elementary school.

In those days before liberation, women were useful at home, with many plants in the yard,  to cure more than one 

illness from body or spirit, internal or external.  Swapping and sharing all sort of plants, was very common in some segments of the population. After all, there was no money for doctors, or available hospitals within reach.  It was a skill, pertinent to families, society as a whole.

All that knowledge is gone and forgotten, underestimated, except for some people, enlightened ones, whose vegetarian, holistic ideas about nature cures are cult like, keeping to themselves as if they were the chosen ones.

Yours truly on the other hand, misanthropic and all does not see any difference between this gardening or that.  I cover the whole court with a clear view of the issues...There is too much human contact, computers are for learning, sharing, kicking butt, setting trends.

The Puerto Rico I grew up, is just memories, really vague, obscure, opaque.  Now, it is a day light nightmare daily.  Collecting, propagating and planting keeps me cheerful as I can.  And you can perceive. Bilingual laugh.

Apaga i vamonoh.

RABANO MATA DE AGUA GALLEGOS AMAPOLA

O nce upon a time there were no nurseries, since this isle, the concrete/asphalt one, is not the British ones.  Therefore, women mostly, were into plants, flowers, bushes and herbs.

Pride in the appearance, the rarity,
how useful were the plants was  part of it here, and anywhere.  I am not any different but it goes beyond.  My satisfaction comes out of the birds, reptiles, insects, common or rare as the previous post, beneficial or not. 

The names in Spanish are the common names used in Puerto Rico, USA of the following in the same order:
Diffenbachia, Pothos, Crotons and Hibiscus.

The second and fourth are worth commenting since one was found in glass vases indoors and the last, is are named Amapolas, however in the most of the world that term signifies Poppies. 


Perhaps there are many others such
as: oregano, recao, albahaca, aji, and medicinal ones also in demand in those days.  But that story is for some other time.


Let it suffice that gardens before the arrival of useless nurseries, tied to the first urban projects based on the cookie cut mold of Levitt and Sons, during the sixties, were created from seed exchanges, swapping and propagating at home.


I will have to write a post on propagation to kill two birds on these issues.


Final word.  A few months ago some idiot in gardenrant.com, referred to botanical names identifying whatever, as epitaphs on a tombstone.


My pen name will look wonderful. Here is Antigonum Cajan. The one and only. Trend Setter, kicking butts, humble as hell, dogmatic as no other,
with great noir sense of humor, impatient and intolerant with stupidity, an always aware of his limitations.


Left no disciples since the early misanthropic views got more intense as time went by.  The more misanthropic the better the collection and once in a while his writing, that bai di guay, went into the abominable third person, god knows why.


Apaga i vamonoh.