Friday, May 13, 2022

Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden at UCLA, Part Two

Veering off my previously traveled pathway (aka the desert garden) I was now entering the palms, cycads, bromeliads and ferns zone. I do love plants on the far ends of the spectrum and when a botanical garden can deliver both extremes, well I'm in heaven!

Lepidozamia peroffskyana, aka scaly zamia.


Looking down into the shady ravine...

Aechmea sphaerocephala


As a PNW gardener anytime I see bromeliads in the ground I'm rather awestruck.


And these!

I think these are palm fruit? I couldn't find a label that matched up.

Stenochlaena tenuifolia, aka giant (!) vine fern. Damn.

Nice staghorn too...



Alsophila firma, aka Mexican tree fern.


I couldn't find an ID on the colorful fern, but it was nice to see a few pyrrosia in the mix.



It appeared a hanging staghorn had fallen to the ground.

I hope they were able to rescue it.

This cutie really caught my attention, no label though. Checking with Carlos Cruz (a connection the Amateur Bot-ann-ist made for me) he thought it might be Polypodium pyrrholepis, whatever it is I really really really want to grow it!

That looks like Pyrrosia hastata in the center...

And this fun character is phymatosorus grossus...

And that's a wrap on the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden at UCLA. Do visit if you get a chance, I'll definitely return...

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10 comments:

  1. It looks really good, particularly when you consider that it is a public park.

    I spotted some parasols on the "shady ravine" shot. That looks like a nice place to have a coffee and cake.

    I know what you mean about seeing plants growing in the ground that you consider to be pot plants or houseplants. The first time I went to the island of Ibiza I was amazed to see lots of UK houseplants growing happily outside. There was a particularly nice fish restaurant we found and it had a huge Ficus elastica growing outisde and I was gobsmacked, lol!

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    1. There was a class lecture down in the shady ravine while I was visiting, oh and also a very loud and annoying family getting photos taken...

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  2. AnonymousMay 13, 2022

    Palm fruit might be Chamaedorea?

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  3. Oh ! Wowzers ! I do look forward to your blog .

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  4. You must have been really happy to come across the Pyrrosia ;) Healthy specimens too. I wonder how many students stroll through that garden? Every time I've visited it's been nearly deserted. And I have to say that when I was in grad school there, I never visited it, but it was a wonderful place to go when visiting someone in the nearby medical facilities.

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    1. Ya, irrationally so (the pyrrosia)! There was a class in the garden while I was there, which was nice to see. Several other people too, one drawing and another (loud) group getting photos taken. It seemed to be well used.

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  5. AnonymousMay 14, 2022

    What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours... yes, I burst into song. Those two areas of the Mildred E. Mathias botanical garden are such opposites! Whenever you show magnificent ferns I get excited, the vine fern in particular was so grand. Lovely phymatosorus grossus showing off it's spores! I wanted to take the fallen staghorn fern home with me... nurse it to full recovery.
    Chavli

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    1. You'd have need a van and several people to lift it, it was HUGE!

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