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TREES.... NATIVE FROM CERRADO LANDSCAPES

Tree in my yard

Tree in my neighborhood

Tree in my yard

Tree in my neighborhood

Tree in my yard

Those trees are Barbatimão (Stryphnodendron barbatiman Mart.) a luxuriant tree native to Brazil's cerrado vegetation. The Brazilian cerrado (savanna) bioma covers 2 million km² representing 23% of the area of the country (the same size as Western Europe). It is an ancient biome with rich biodiversity, estimated at 160.000 species of plants, fungi and animals. There are about 800 species of trees and large shrubs in the savanna vegetation. Cerrado is the second largest ecological dominion of Brazil, where a continuous herbaceous stratum is joined to an arboreal stratum, with variable density of woody species. Around 220 species from cerrado are reported as used in the traditional medicine. In terms of area it is exceeded by only one vegetation formation in Brazil, the Amazonian forest covering approx. 3.5 million km².

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Brazilian Biodiversity: approximately two thirds of the biological diversity of the world is found in tropical zones, mainly in developing countries. Brazil is the country with the most biological diversity in the world. It is estimated that we have between 15% to 20% of all the planet's biodiversity. There are 55,000 different native species of plants in Brazil (22% of the world's total), distributed over six major biomes : Amazon (30,000); Cerrado (10,000); Caatinga (4,000); Atlantic rainforest (10,000), Pantanal (10,000) and the subtropical forest (3,000).

Photos taken by myself

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TREES... IN SUNLIGHT & SUNSET

I took these photos last year, in sunlight and in sunset, on the edge of the country road, while driving home.

TREES... I LOVE TREES!

If you like trees, I hope you enjoy these pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them.

SHADOWS UNDER TREES

After much work compiling pictures to my series about Holambra's Fields, I just want to take some time for a pleasant idleness. I need a little of "sombra e água fresca". In Portuguese "sombra" means "shadow", and "água fresca" means "fresh water". Did you get the picture? So, I need to have a time for doing nothing. The Italian people has a beautiful expression to describe the same thing: "a dolce far niente". Then I thought that these pictures would be appropriate for now.

Photos taken by myself in my garden. You can see these "Sibipiruna" trees, scientific name Caesalpinia peltophorides , in my garden HERE.

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PALM TREE IN MY GARDEN

I see this beautiful palm tree from my bedroom window.

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The common name of this palm tree is Chinese fan palm and the scientific name is Livistona chinensis. This palm tree is a genus of 28 species of palms (family Arecaceae) . The Chinese fan palm is native to southern Japan, Taiwan and several islands in the South China Sea. In Portuguese it's common name is "palmeira-leque-da-china".

Photo by Sonia A. Mascaro

PITANGA TREE FLOURISHING

This delicate tree is the Pitanga tree, in portuguese named Pitangueira. It's on my backyard. This tree sprouted and growed by chance, may be the seed was droped by a bird.... Also called Surinam cherry, (Eugenia uniflora) a.k.a. Pitanga and Brazilian Cherry, unlike most other members of this genus, which are native to southeastern Asia, the Surinam Cherry is indigenous to tropical Brazil.

You can see more photos and information about Pitanga tree on my post of October 31, 2005.

Photos taken by myself.

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TREES IN THE SUNSET

I took those photos on May 10, 2007, on the edge of the country road, while driving home. You can see more photos on the original post here.

Photos by Sonia A. M.

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"CAPTAIN HOOK" TREE

I have been photographing that strange tree at different times of day and during the different seasons for several years. We named this tree as "Captain Hook" or "Ghost Tree". What do you think, is a good nickname for that tree?

In fact this is a tree that have been smothered by the climber shrub, commonly known as Flame Vine or Orange Trumpet Creeper. This evergreen shrub with its showy red-orange flowers, is original from Brazil, commonly known as Flor-de-São-João in Portuguese. This ornamental climber has become an invasive weed in São Paulo crops. The best show of Flame Vine - Pyrostegia venusta - is in June and July. In this time of the year we can see the Flame Vine climbing on trees all around my neighborhood. Flor-de-São-João attracts many hummingbirds.

See Flame Vine's photos here and here.

Photos by Sonia A. Mascaro

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WHEAT FIELDS

My friend Jôka, from the blog Avenida Copacabana , when saw my wheat's photos, remembered that painting, that I also love, by the great American realist painter, Andrew Newell Wyeth (born July 12,1917). This painting, named Christina's World is the most famous work by Andrew Wyeth. Painted in 1948 this tempera work is displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It shows a woman named Christina Olson, who had an undiagnosed muscular deterioration that paralyzed her lower body, dragging herself across the ground to pick flowers from her garden. She is the subject of a number of other paintings by Wyeth, along with her brother.

A panorama of beautiful wheat fields and a farm.

Photos by Sonia A. Mascaro

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WALKING AROUND MY NEIGHBORHOOD

Atualização para participar do Ecological Day, hospedado pelo blog Caliandra do Cerrado

There is not much interesting going on these days. I just don't have much to post and nothing worth mentioning... So, today I post some photos from our everyday walking around. I hope I don't bore you all too much with those photos, because I guess you had been seeing those landscapes many times... I need so much alternative views and to see others horizons for a change....