San Diego Botanic Garden | January 2020
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From Eastern Australia. Specimens of this species were among the plants collected at Botany Bay, Australia in April 1770, by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, the two naturalists on Captain Cook’s first voyage to Pacific. Most Banksia species are adapted to life in fire-prone habitats. In many Banksia species new plants sprout readily from a woody underground tuber after fire. In other species fire stimulates the release of seeds from thick woody pods and their subsequent germination. This specimen is in cultivation in the San Diego Botanic Garden.
A dragon tree (Dracaena draco) growing in the San Diego Botanic Garden. The species is native to the Canary Islands with populations occurring on Cape Verde, Madeira, and in western Morocco. the tree produces a red resin.
Left to right - Tony Gurnoe, PRC, Mary Friestedt, Ari Novy
From Eastern Australia. Specimens of this species were among the plants collected at Botany Bay, Australia in April 1770, by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, the two naturalists on Captain Cook’s first voyage to Pacific. Most Banksia species are adapted to life in fire-prone habitats. In many Banksia species new plants sprout readily from a woody underground tuber after fire. In other species fire stimulates the release of seeds from thick woody pods and their subsequent germination. This specimen is in cultivation in the San Diego Botanic Garden.
A very rare plant that is native only to Hawaii and that is one of Hawaii’s rarest plants. Once common, this species is now highly threatened. Ex situ conservation in botanic gardens, such as this specimen growing in the San Diego Botanic Garden, will be crucial for the long-term survival of this highly unusual and rare Hawaiian plant. The few remaining individuals in the wild grow only on cliffs in Kauai.
An unusual tree with a swollen bottle-shaped trunk. This specimen is growing in the San Diego Botanic Garden.
A poinsetta (Euphorbia pulcherrima) planted in a private garden in Encinictas north of San Diego and growing as a perennial. Poinsettas are the most economically valuable potted plants. Many varieties have been developed, almost all of them in by Ecke family at their operations once based in Encinictas. It was the Ecke family who were largely responsible for building the association between poinsetta and Christmas.