FIELD TRIP WITH PATRICK BLANC IN ECUADOR - MASHPI CLOUD FOREST

The Botanist Patrick Blanc, inventor of the Vertical Garden (Mur Végétal) takes you to a Field Trip in the cloud forests of Ecuador, on the Pacific side of the Andes at 1000 m altitude, this area being the southernmost part of the Choco ecoregion, one of the world's biodiversity hotspots.

We thank Mark Hughes, Marc Jeanson, Guido Mathieu, David Scherberich and Michael Sundue for some plant species identifications, Nestor Paladines from Mashpi Lodge and Régis Nicolas from Traveler in the World.

Filmed & Produced by Pascal Héni
PasPat 2021

Périple botanique en Equateur filmé par Pascal Héni

Plant list :
Adelonema picturatum, Aneilema umbrosum, Anthopterus wardii, Anthurium amoenum, Anthurium bernalii, Anthurium cf. brownii, Anthurium cf. dolichostachyum, Anthurium esmeraldense, Anthurium melampyi, Anthurium ovatifolium, Anthurium pulverulentum, Anthurium sp., Anthurium truncicola, Asplundia cf. platyphylla, Banara regia, Begonia foliosa, Begonia harlingii, Begonia longirostris, Begonia maurandiae, Begonia maurandiae, Begonia parviflora, Bomarea pardina, Burmeistera multiflora, Burmeistera velutina, Capsicum geminifolium, Cavendishia venosa, Centropogon cf. solanifolius, cf. Microchilus, Chlorospatha atropurpurea, Clibadium laxum, Clusia sp., Columnea albovinosa, Columnea floribunda, Columnea medicinalis, Columnea minor, Columnea parviflora, Columnea picta, Columnea sp., Cyperus chalaranthus, Diastema affine, Diastema scabrum, Dichorisandra sp., Dicranopygium sp., Diplazium ceratolepis, Drymonia cf. macrophylla, Drymonia collegarum, Drymonia teuscheri, Drymonia turrialvae, Gasteranthus lateralis, Gasteranthus pansamalanus, Gasteranthus quitensis, Geonoma undata, Glossoloma sprucei, Grias peruviana, Guarea cf. fistulosa, Gurania lobata, Guzmania amplectens, Guzmania sanguinea, Heliconia harlingii, Heliconia sp., Heliconia willisiana, Hoffmannia cf. obovata, Huntleya wallisii, Kohleria villosa, Ludovia integrifolia, Maybe a form of Geonoma stricta, Monnina speciosa, Monolena elliptica, Monophyllorchis maculata, Napeanthus robustus, Oxalis hedysaroides, Palicourea acanthacea, Palicourea amethystina, Palicourea cyanococca, Palicourea glomerulata, Palicourea sodiroi, Palmorchis trilobulata, Peperomia albert-smithii, Peperomia caespitosa, Peperomia cf. fragrantissima, Peperomia lancifolia, Peperomia pachystachya, Peperomia sp., Peperomia sp. aff. P. rugosa, Philodendron fibrosum, Philodendron lynnhannoniae, Piper appendiculatum, Piper cf. chuarense, Piper filistilum, Piper trianae, Pitcairnia barringae, Pitcairnia sp., Pitcairnia stevensonii, Podandrogyne brevipedunculata, Psammisia ulbrichiana, Pteris tripartita, Renealmia thyrsoidea, Rubiaceae sp., Schefflera sphaerocoma, Selaginella sp., Socratea exorrhiza, Sphyrospermum buxifolium, Spigelia pedunculata, Steiropteris decussata, Thoracocarpus bissectus, Trichodrymonia splendens, Trichomanes elegans, Urera baccifera, Xanthosoma sp., Xanthosoma undipes, Xiphidium caeruleum

Botany - Botanical exploration - Biodiversity - Plant species - Plant architecture - Adaptations - Evolution - Habitat preservation