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Trees of western South America (4 C, 8 P) A. Trees of the Amazon rainforest (54 P) B. Trees of Brazil (2 C, 287 P) C. Trees of the Caribbean (13 C, 72 P)
Pages in category "Trees of southern South America" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. L.
For the purposes of this category, "Central America" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD); that is, it is defined as a region of South America, comprising Belize, Costa Rica, the Central American Pacific Islands (Clipperton Island, Cocos Island and Malpelo Island), El Salvador ...
For the purposes of this category, "western South America" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD); that is, it is defined as comprising Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Galápagos (treated as distinct from Ecuador) and Peru.
Some trees in these forests drop some or all of their leaves during the winter dry season, thus they are sometimes called "tropical mixed forest". They are found in parts of South America, in Central America and around the Caribbean, in coastal West Africa, parts of the Indian subcontinent, and across much of Indochina. Montane rainforests
The Quindío wax palm was selected as the national tree by the government of Belisario Betancur and was the first tree officially declared as a protected species in Colombia. C. quindiuense is the only palm that grows at such high altitudes in Colombia and is the tallest monocot in the world.
The cultivation of the tree in South America (Amazon) ended early in the 20th century because of indigenous blights that targeted the rubber tree. [4] The blight, called South American leaf blight, is caused by the ascomycete Pseudocercospora ulei, [13] [14] [15] also called Microcyclus ulei, [16] or Dothidella ulei, which is endemic to the ...
The tree's native habitat is the lower slopes of the Chilean and Argentine south-central Andes, approximately between 1,000 m (3,300 ft) and 1,700 m (5,600 ft). [6] In the Chilean Coast Range A. araucana can be found as far south as Villa Las Araucarias (latitude 38°30' S) at an altitude of 640 m asl. [7]