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Comments (26)..and D. meziana which is not really meant for small place despite the neat photo on fcbs. I have asked the gardener to stand there for scale. It is still the same BG. D. meziana is in the left front corner and he is standing next to the above mentioned Puya which inflo is hanging in on the above first photo. D. longipetala is about at his knee with one of its old inflo branch is coming up to his belly....See MoreWhat exactly is a tropical plant?
Comments (11)Temperature alone is not what explains tropicality. Mount Kilomanjaro lies within the tropics; yet, atop that mountain, you find plants that though they are not strapped to seasonal change, are evolved to a specific temperature range that goes well below 40 degrees F/4.5C, especially at night. You may find these plants no where else but in the tropics and ... on Mt. Kilomanjaro. There are similar analogs in the Andes Mountains of South America or atop mountains in New Guinea and other tropical jungle clad areas of the globe. We all know intuitively that temps are cooler with increasing altitude because we have seen snow on mountain tops. But have you ever asked yourself why? Look to the Grand Canyon for an analog. In Summer on the Rim, it can be warm at over 5000 ft. when a high pressure system clamps down on the North American Southwest, but as you go down, it gets hotter inside the canyon. Death Valley is one of the hottest places on Earth and lies below sea level in the Sub Tropics and may I point out, in California. Why is it hotter, the lower you go and/or the closer you get to the Equator? The answer has a lot to do both with air pressure, but also solar excitation of atoms and molecules. The gravitational mass of a column of air makes the air denser at the bottom of the column and so, there are more densely packed free atoms and molecules that are forced into contact each other, exchanging energy through electron transfers, photon emissions and so forth. This creates increased heat energy. At the Equator, the column of air is not only thicker than at the poles, where the atmosphere thins, but seasonally, the sun shines more directly on the Earth's surface there as well. The Equatorial air column is thicker due to inertial forces caused by the Earth's rotation. The Earth is not perfectly round, but oblate, both because of inertial bulging at the Equator and because of the distribution of mountain masses. However, rotational inertial forces cause the air column to be thicker there. Due to the thicker air column, equatorial and tropical latitudes are warmer or hotter than temperate and arctic/anarctic zones. But again, keep in mind, temperatures are warmer in the tropics for two reasons, both the increased air column thickness and because the Sun shines more directly upon the tropics. The differential heating due to air density variance with altitude nonetheless, creates tropical zones that do not necessarily have what we would think are tropical temperatures and tropical plants that surprisingly are not what we might think qualifies as a tropical plant based on temperature alone. High altitude desert succulants and other plants, thus, though tropical, would die in a rain forest with what we would think of as tropical temps. Yet 32F,0C is a tropical temperature in some places, even right on the Equator. The one thing that is true about the temperate zones and the Arctic/Antarctic regions is seasonality. The tropics do not see the same seasonal variance that are seen in other latitudinal zones. Therefore, tropicals do not go through seasonal triggered changes such as dormant periods. Nor are their seed's germinations triggered by temperature changes from cooler to warmer, requiring so-called Winter sowing. But be aware, nature has hidden secrets ... plants in what are currently tropical latitudes may have at one time evolved in temperate zones, due to movements of the Earth's crust and shifting of the Earth's rotational axis over huge durations of time. Thus many tropical plants retain vestigial propensities to have seeds that germinate due to temperature triggers and may shed leaves in an annual cycle that does not make sense for tropical plants. It's a mixed bag due to long term factors and migration of species over time. Nothing is cut and dry simple....See MoreCactus pears from Chile
Comments (2)I think those are from a tall native columnar cacti. I saw on "The Desert Speaks" tv show. A Trichocereus sp. In the bay area Opuntia Ficus indica is fool proof,taste to me like watermelon. In SF,you could grow Dragon Fruit. My neighbor has a huge amount in her Hayward side yard. And I have seen named cultivars for sale at Regans Nursery in Newark/Fremont....See MoreNew TV shows vs Old TV shows
Comments (23)Jasdip, I just have a cheap inside antenna. Some of my friends in the county pick up more stations than I do. I also can't pick up our local ctv station in my living room which I find strange but when I had a television in the bedroom I used to be able to get it a 5 am. I got rid of cable in 2004, my neighbour bought me the analog box and the antenna years before the stations changed and set it up for me. I couldn't believe the all the new stations that appeared. I am in a good location. I am always scanning for new stations. I get better reception and more stations than some of the people i know who are paying for cable or digital and they don't get any of the local Detroit stations. I just think of all that money I didn't give to the cable company haha it now goes to Bell for my internet...See Morelily316
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