Sítio Roberto Burle Marx

Sítio Roberto Burle Marx outside Rio. This is the collection of Roberto Burle Marx (one of the worlds foremost modernist landscape architects) now belonging to the Brazillian Government. The property is only accessable by appointment and guided tour ( and they dont like you to wander off like i did) it is located about an hours taxi ride out of Rio De Janerio.

Here are some of the pictures i took. Sadly nothing is labled on the property and only the last 5 minutess of the tour are in the greenhouse



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From what i could understand this was one of the most important plants.

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A weird fruit tree and some ginger

Aroid tri-lobed

Aroid Branchifolia...ish

The tallest Aroid i ever saw

Agave

Creeping split leaf

Jade vine

Big Leaf Philo ?

Philo Gloriosum...ish ?

A cool stripe

Wowzers! What a trip! Keep them coming!!
:) Donna

Sorry there's no context for this one, this emerging fern is over 6ft tall the whole tree over 30ft

A hairy heliconia

Must have....what is it ?????

Those are great photos. I'm sure you would like to have gotten lost there.

Id love to know what this tree is

This one is of Iguacu Falls. On the border of Brazil,Argentina and Uraguy

Linda, I tried to stay in the greenhouse a little longer but they were'nt having it. When I go back next ill make a special trip again and see if i can just stay and document the greenhouse.

WOW...beautiful...

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What a very cool place to go! Were you there the whole 6 wks, traveling around down there? I could live there easily!

I think the tree that you asked about looks like a type of eucalyptus tree. The creeping split leaf is a monstera, aroid branchifolia...ish ( lol Neal) is a selloum of some sort and the fern shoot is from a tree fern-they do get big.

Is that tree a rainbow eucalyptus tree ?

That wierd fruit tree I believe is theobroma cacao, http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/721/index.html , the source for the beans that are roasted and ground into one of our favorite substances: chocolate. The fruit aren't ripe yet, they turn yellow, but they are supposedly delicious, never mind the seeds. :)

-Joe

Thanks Tigerlilly,
I was away from Key West for 6 weeks, the first two and the last one we spent in Ft Lauderdale, dealing with our house construction, then we were in Sao Paulo on business and Rio Iguacu and Buenos Aires for fun. Next time i go back down I wan to do the Amazon and the rain forest.

Marie, at first I thought it was a rainbow eucalyptus, but im not sure that they branch like that.

and Joe no wonder i was attracted to that tree, It's cool how the fruit comes from the trunk.

Neil

i think the "important" plant might be a Nolina of some kind. what a great trip. i have one of his books and i've drooled over it many a day! how cool to see this garden in person.

I don't think it is a cacao tree-I had one on Maui and the fruit comes directly off the trunk of the tree and the fruit is more slender and ridged ( or has defined furrows down the fruit) and pointy at the ends of the fruit.

Great photos!!! We call that hairy heliconia Dead Monkey!

That fern is amazing; a 6' fiddlehead! WoW

Beautiful photos.

The most important plant looks like a grass tree known as a black boy tree. Here is a link: http://www.grasstree.com/grasstree_6.htm

Jeri

Awesome ... what a Phenomenal Collection! Oh, to be able to spend a few days in that Garden! Lucky, Lucky You, Celt ... to be able to see those plants in one place .... Thank You so much for posting your photo's!

Yes...the Black Boy Tree. I finally got one...not cheap. They are Australian and I have heard 2 reasons for the name:

1. When the fires rage through the outback, the trees are burnt black, and the green comes back with the charred trunks.

2. Called that after some groups of soldiers with headdresses with plumage like the plant...and the plumage is black.

There are probably 700 more. I love them!!!

Heh tigerlily, you may be right. One of the photos in the plantfiles entry shows a non-ridged fruit, but then again someone in the plantfiles says theobroma grows in Seattle. :) I believe though there are at least two species of theobroma, and there are different cultivars of t. cacao. This tree is fruiting directly from a branch, which is also similar to at least one photo in the plantfiles. T. cacao is endemic to Brazil.

I guess we need to see some leaf pictures?

-Joe

Thank you so much for the photos

When I was a member of the Heliconia Society in South Florida (about 15 or so years ago) we talked alot about Roberto Burle Marx and I had several plants bearing his name.I also have several books of Tropical Gardening and pictures of this garden are included but not as many as you took.

How lucky of you to be able to visit and be able to explore places like this.One of my dreams is also about exploring the Amazon.I spent some time at the edge of it in Aquas Caliente in Peru at the base of Machu Pinchu.

Send more pictures of your travels.Please

Nancy

Carol where did you find your black boy trees? I've been on a search for a while to no avail.

Jeri

What an amazing trip! Love those serpentine looking agave. Thanks for the tour!
Neal

Nancy
This one is for you. Your so luck to have been able to stay in the area around machu picchu, its a very special place. We were there last year and i'll never forget it .

Oh thank you so much for posting this picture!

I want to go back so much.I was there in the Fall of 1996.We stayed in Aquas Caliente for almost a week.We took the local bus up to Machu Pichu almost every day.A few times we missed the last bus leaving and had to climb down the mountain.Oh the plants that were growing there!

At the edge of town (I can see it clearly in my imagination) there was a bus stop with buses going into the Amazon.I really wanted to hop on a bus and go.

My son went there (Peru) in 2002.He also stayed in Aquas caliente and said that it had really developed like every other place on the earth.There were lots more hotel and restaurants.

Have you ever grown calathea burlemarxii "blue ice and green ice" if you haven't they are well worth growing.

How long have you lived in Key West?We used to go down there alot until it too went upscale.We used to stay in guest houses.Do they still have them?

Nancy

Nancy, I've been here 12 years, but were getting ready to get out of here. Like everywhere else it has changed( for the worse) since ive been here, but i always say it may not be my tropical paradise any more but it probably is for someone else who has just discovered it. Anyway it's time for a change . I've had enough island life for this lifetime. Yes there are still lots of guest houses , the only way to stay here in my opinion

It was my partners 50th birthday last year and i took hime there to celebrate, it was always a dream of his to go, we stayed in Aquas Caliente for 4 days and then spent two night up on top at the hotel there. It was amazing. I got up each morning before anybody arrived and explored and did my yoga practise.

I have a calathea blue ice, but still no flower.

When I stayed in Aquas Caliente I got up before dawn and walked up the hill with alot of people from the town and went to the hot springs to meditate and do some yoga.

I can't even imagine how powerful it must be to be in Machu Pichu and start your practice before the tourists arrive.

I was a yoga teacher in Hallandale in South Florida when we lived there.We have been in the Carolinas since 1999.Alot of people are leaving Florida and moving to the Carolinas.Where are you moving to?