Sunday, September 9, 2007
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Gummiträdsfrön
Seeds from rubertrees picked on a walk on Marajó in Pará, Brazil in january 2007 and placed on a summertable in Tullinge.
When the seeds are ejected from the capsels you hear a sound like a pistolshot. Henry Wickham took 70 000 of them to Kew garden in London in 1876. They grow and where exported to south-east Asia and led to the fall of Barzilian rubber-industry in the 1930th.
Read more about it in Steven Alexanders book Santarém Riverboat Town. You can read more about his book in his blog http://bosque-santa.blogspot.com/ .
When the seeds are ejected from the capsels you hear a sound like a pistolshot. Henry Wickham took 70 000 of them to Kew garden in London in 1876. They grow and where exported to south-east Asia and led to the fall of Barzilian rubber-industry in the 1930th.
Read more about it in Steven Alexanders book Santarém Riverboat Town. You can read more about his book in his blog http://bosque-santa.blogspot.com/ .
Monday, September 3, 2007
Persikoskörd på Pinnvägen
Nästan hela skörden i år 2007. Förvånansvärt många blir förvånade över att det går att odla utanför växthus. men som syns går det alldels utmärkt mot en södervägg. Det är bara att sätta igång!
Almost the whole harvest of peaches this year. Many get surprised of the fact that the peaches can grow in the free at our latitude, but I can tell that it is completely free from problems.
Almost the whole harvest of peaches this year. Many get surprised of the fact that the peaches can grow in the free at our latitude, but I can tell that it is completely free from problems.
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Cachewnötsträd vid Alter do Cháo, Pará, Brazil
- Stoppa bussen, sa vår guide, Håkan. Och så fick vi en förevisning av och en massa ny kunskap om kashevnötter! Och så blev det några bilder i januari 2007.
Här några rader ur Wikipedia.
The Cashew (Anacardium occidentale; Anacardium curatellifolium) is a tree in the flowering plant family Anicardiaceae. The plant is native to northeastern Brazil, where it is called by its Portugese name Caju (the fruit) or Cajueiro (the tree). It is now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew "nuts" and cashew apples.
What appears to be the fruit of the cashew tree is an oval or pear-shaped accesory fruit or false fruit that develops from the receptacle of the cashew flower. Called the cashew apple, better known in Central America as "marañón", it ripens into a yellow and/or red structure about 5–11 cm long.
Här några rader ur Wikipedia.
The Cashew (Anacardium occidentale; Anacardium curatellifolium) is a tree in the flowering plant family Anicardiaceae. The plant is native to northeastern Brazil, where it is called by its Portugese name Caju (the fruit) or Cajueiro (the tree). It is now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew "nuts" and cashew apples.
What appears to be the fruit of the cashew tree is an oval or pear-shaped accesory fruit or false fruit that develops from the receptacle of the cashew flower. Called the cashew apple, better known in Central America as "marañón", it ripens into a yellow and/or red structure about 5–11 cm long.
Gummiträd i Belterra
Old rubber trees at Belterra close to Santarem, Brazil january 2007.
Belterra is a village and rubber plantation site some 40 km South of the city of Santarem at the edge of the Planalto. Belterra has been founded as a rubber plantation after the economic failure of Fordlandia in 1934 by Ford. The intention of the US-Department of Commerce in the 1920s was to produce rubber in Brazil and to import it to USA. The advantage of the Belterra plantation vs. the plantation of Fordlandia 100 km South is the flat topography, which enables the use of machinery. In its peak time in the late 1930s some 50 km² were cultivated with Hevea Brasiliensis (Wikipedia).
Belterra is a village and rubber plantation site some 40 km South of the city of Santarem at the edge of the Planalto. Belterra has been founded as a rubber plantation after the economic failure of Fordlandia in 1934 by Ford. The intention of the US-Department of Commerce in the 1920s was to produce rubber in Brazil and to import it to USA. The advantage of the Belterra plantation vs. the plantation of Fordlandia 100 km South is the flat topography, which enables the use of machinery. In its peak time in the late 1930s some 50 km² were cultivated with Hevea Brasiliensis (Wikipedia).
Friday, August 31, 2007
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Tropical soils, beautiful litter
Steven Alexander is in his blog teaching us about tropical soils, se http://bosque-santa.blogspot.com/
So I found av picture of soil in a little bosque in the outskirts of Belem at Projéto Asurini. The process of deomposing can be beuatiful. The red root I do not remember the name on. Picture taken in januari 2007.
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