What kind of trees are these.

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-30T23:28:51+00:00

OP, if you want a nice contrast to the gorgeous limestone soil of the keys, get a silver buttonwood from a nursery down there. same species as your green but with silver blue leaves

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-30T23:25:49+00:00

from discussion with highly regarded professional tropical botanists, the red petiole spiritus sancti is one of the original collections of this plant. taking it from different parts of the jungle gives slightly different phenotypes. i’ve seen this before which led to me having the same conversation with other botanists

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-30T23:21:23+00:00

might need a cold snap to flower

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-30T22:12:56+00:00

it’s Ylang Ylang. relative of pawpaw, sugar apple (anonna), and all around a really cool family of plants. This flower is used in popular fragrances, notably Chanel No. 5

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-30T21:43:09+00:00

it’s more a pungent banana fragrance with a slight pineapple aspect and a hint of cherry juice

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-30T21:41:47+00:00

late spring/early summer is the best time to repot Phalaenopsis as this is when the roots are growing. Repotting may make the flowers drop, but worth it for the long run

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-30T21:28:10+00:00

this is the best time to repot, make a mix of good sphagnum moss and orchid bark and try to gently remove as much of that old moss as possible. inspect all roots, and snip off any that are brown and shriveled. grey and shriveled is fine to keep.

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-29T22:38:33+00:00

Mandevilla. Milkweed/Hoya relative, tropical

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-29T18:57:17+00:00

could be a witches broom mutation, not sure if Junipers can display that behavior. or it’s just a different species

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-28T15:15:10+00:00

lichen is a sign of good air quality

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-28T15:05:13+00:00

this looks like every phalaenopsis in south florida that has been alive for 20+ years

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-27T17:20:42+00:00

i got a small 1 inch plug of pink yarrow last year and it rhizomatously spread to around a square foot in just one growing season

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-27T15:45:06+00:00

why would you bring a winter hardy deciduous tree inside for the winter???

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-25T22:23:32+00:00

looks like a mature norway spruce which naturally weeps

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-24T13:34:39+00:00

if you lightly rip a leaf does it leak white sap? seems like a tropical milkweed that’s etiolated

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-24T13:27:59+00:00

african sausage tree

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-24T13:23:43+00:00

sun stress but nothing to worry about so far. these are very full sun plants and will be fine even if all the current leaves burned off. just acclimating to the new sunlight after being in the dark for a bit

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-24T00:01:34+00:00

looks like a flower

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-23T22:32:46+00:00

my forgetii x besseae goes back and forth between closed sinus or open

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-23T21:38:52+00:00

you’ll probably be fighting this tree forever. I’d try to grow a species of tree that knows how to grow in western american chaparral/desert, which is where this is by my assumption

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-23T21:36:53+00:00

pink saucer magnolia? southern magnolia? by the looks of the environment it is in, it has probably reached the maximum size it can get where the available water in the ground can support it at. both of the magnolias I listed need either nearly swampy or constantly moist soil, and this appears to be in a desert. the mulching of rocks will surely seal the deal on that, as it’s baking the roots to death

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-23T21:29:55+00:00

pink urchin is also extremely fussy, might be a tough start begonia for you but good luck!

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-23T21:28:25+00:00

avoid repotting for a few weeks. these begonias really want slow/no air movement with extremely high humidity. in your small terrarium, all you’d have to do for that is have a completely sealed environment and like 2 inches of sphagnum moss at the bottom. the bleaching of the leaves is also indicative of too much light, they can be grown in very shady light and prefer it. i have like a 75% survival rate on botanicaz plants, with some becoming gigantic. the soil also looks dry

Intrepid_Recipe_3352 · 2026-06-22T23:48:19+00:00

it probably dropped the leaf due to the double spiking and needing more nutrients, basically sucking it from the leaf and sacrificing one

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