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Jacarandas surround the dog park in central Buenos Aires. Two things Buenos Aires has a lot of is dogs and jacaranda trees! |
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Is the Jacaranda tree native to Argentina? Yes it is a South American native from highland Brazil and Northern Argentina. |
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The trunk of the Arrayan tree, located at the very end of the Peninsula de Quetrihué in National Park Los Arrayanes. |
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Definitely an Orchid, the Orquidea Porcelana. It is very beautiful and hides in the tussock. Torres Del Paine, Chile. |
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Hiding from rain under a familiar Nothofagus tree. They have three types in Patagonia, two of which are deciduous. TDP, Chile. |
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The Codonorchis Lessonii (common name in spanish is Azucena del Bosque which mean Lily of the Forest) is a common in the undergrowth under the beech trees. Unfortunately this photo came out a bit blurry - the digital is terrible at focusing when in macro! TDP. |
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Phil surrounded by flowers on our walk in TDP, Chile. |
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Mosses and low shrubs on the rocks, didn´t get these names unfotunately. There are two shrubs with berries, one dark red and the other more of a pink. One of these berries gets made into a jam which is very nice but I never worked out which one it was. TDP but seen throughout Patagonia. |
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The Embothrium Coccineum (Fire Bush) was flowering wonderfully all over Patagonia and made a great foreground to several photos. |
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Escallonia Rubia |
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Another lovely flowering shrub in TDP - I think it is called Berbis Ilicifolia. |
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Calceolaria Uniflora (Ladies slipper) was not very common at all, I thought it was an orchid but the name suggests not. TDP. |
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Cool lichen crawling over the granite rock of TDP. |
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I only know that the common name for this flower is 'The waterfall flower' which seems pretty apt. |
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At the end of our TDP walk we were greeted by paddocks of nodding daisies. |
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I love daisies! |
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Sphagnum moss in the rather soggy Tierra Del Fuego National Park near Ushuaia. |
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Beautiful coloured dry fern undergrowth in Tierra Del Fuego National Park. |
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Now this is what I called a seriously windy place! Stands of hardy nothofagus trees along the Beagle Channel in Tierra Del Fuego. |
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More daisy fields at a very southern estancia near the Beagle Channel. |
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