Wild Landscape Learning

The next photos will hopefully be of a successful Araucaria bidwillii hunt in some parks in Brisbane with Skip Ah after the jet lag subsides. The first priority afterwards is to finalise the 2024 workshop schedule. There are still a few spots left for New Zealand and New Caledonia if the timing of those workshops matches anyone's availability. The New Zealand workshops will feature the launch of a series of New Zealand essential field guides in Christchurch.

Stunning Gondwanan flora again today near the Perito Moreno glacier. Proteaceae, Nothofagus, Orchidaceae and so much more.

Now for something completely different. Not quite Baccharis halimifolia, but a ground hugging alpine plant called Baccharis magellanica. The flowers are clearly the same though.

Nothofagus antarctica again for Ria Zoeller but with a lump of granite behind.

Badly sprained ankle, no ice cap excursion, climbing gear has had a great holiday with no lead falls, but eating lots of Berberis microphylla (Calafate) so destined to return again. El Chalten is huge now compared to the single concrete house of Don Guerra's in 1983.

Bu**er. They were the other side of a fence I couldn't climb.

All the way to Buenos Aires to find Agathis robusta 😁.

Now for something completely different. An important food plant for indigenous folk from the former Gondwanic remnants in South America, New Zealand and Australia was the fungus on Nothofagus. These were a welcome snack near the Chilean/Argentinean border yesterday near Volcan Lanin.

Last but not least the wished for Proteaceae.

Off to forests of Araucaria araucana on the Argentine border today.