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By morning light

Types of plants

The gardens have a vast mixture of trees and shrubs. Thad is mostly a collector of the unusual. Some of the plants are native to the area such as ebony, tepeguaje, Anacahuita, and Colima. Others are tropicals from Mexico, South America, Australia, Africa, and Asia. Among these are the smaller shrubs such as hibiscus, Century plant, powder puff, turks cap, bird of paradise, heliconias, and jatropas. Vines include the dramatic cup of gold, Malayan rubber vine, split leaf philodendrons, cissus, coral vine, and pothos. Each are dramatic in their own way, either for the large size of the leaf or fruit, their abundance of flowers, or their aerial rooting capabilities. Other plants of note are the bougainvillea with its outrageous colors throughout the year, the large leaf and small leaf scheffleras, timber bamboos which incidentally provides culms for various yard projects including building our new marvelous pen, maranthas and gingers which again provide tropical leaves and flowers, and finally the giant eucalypti trees which shed their bark and provide shade and canopy for the plants growing below.

White bird of paradise

There are many individual plants much too numerous to mention, but my favorites are grouped into the following categories each described below. These are my collector items of which my search for additional species never ceases. Each of these plants make the Mango Jungle special and due to the predominately evergreen nature, provides greenery and good hiding places year 'round.

 

 

 

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