tropical horticulture: lecture 38 - purdue university
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Lecture 38Lecture 38Tropical Landscape Ornamentals
Climate and plant adaptation determines suitability of ornamentals
TreesMany large trees in the tropicsMany flowering treesWide use of palmsUse of ferns and cycadsMany ornamental bamboo species
Temperate lawn grasses are not adaptableMany tropical grasses are coarse resemble
crabgrass.
Flowering shrubs and vinesA wide variety of shrubby plants and vinesMany of our indoor plants are landscape
plants in the tropics
Turf
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Dates, Sinai peninsula
Oasis at El Tor, Sinai peninsula
Oasis in Sinai
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Harvesting pomegranates in formal planting interspersed with ornamental columns next to a T-shaped pool.
Ancient Egyptian Garden Scene
Four workers transporting trees.
Tree with earth raised around the roots.
Ancient Egyptian Garden Scene
Randomly-placed trees within a square enclosure surrounding square pool.
Carving from the tomb of Akhnaton (18th dynasty).
Ancient Egyptian Garden Scene
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Note two types of palms: single trunk = date palm, bifurcated trunk = doum palm.
Garden Plan for a Wealthy Egyptian Estate
The lotus pool, on which statue of the vizier Rekhmire is being towed by boat, faces a pavilion or summerhouse.
Around the pool grow doum palms, date palms, acacias, and other trees and shrubs.
Formal Egyptian garden (Thebes ca. 1450 BCE)
This late 19th century impression (1883) gives a bird’s eye view.
High Official’s Garden
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Ancient Eqyptian Garden Scenes(Thebes, ca. 1300 BCE)
Garden planted with fig, olive trees, and flowering plants containing a pavilion with steps leading down to the water, being irrigated by a row of shadufs.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon. A 19th century conception.
Date, Sinai
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Desert Inn, Beersheba, Israel
Federal station at Mayaguez, Royal Palm, Puerto Rico
Travelers Palm, Ecuador
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Reconstructed house on stilts Allée d’entrée
Bambouseraie de Prafrance, Anduze, France
Bamboo
Elephant pod, Hawaii
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Elephant pod
Bogor Botanical gardens, Java, Indonesia
Trinidad Botanical gardens
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Vista at Fairchild Tropical Gardens, Miami, Florida
Cannonball Tree
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Norfolk Pine Plantation
Chinese Banyan, Ficus retuse
Cycad cone, Hawaii
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Ipe in Bloom
Flamboyant Vicosa
Brugmansia, Solanaceae, Costa Rica
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Bougainvillea, Hawaii
Bougainvillea, Hawaii
Croton, Puerto Rico
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Puerto Rico, Philodendron
Inner Garden, American Consulate Brasilia
Interiorscape
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Double Poinsettia
Poinsettia
Parking garage, Brazil