Mar 29, 2010

Species! East of Paraná South in Brazil

A mountain dweller.
This plant becomes much darker than this one here.
The darkening occurs in the winter. It would be expected the contrary but
against all odds this plant turns dark during the shortest days of the year.
By the end of the Autumn the plant is almost black.
Some individuals may as well hold the color all the time and once they get dark they stay so.
We know almost nothing about this species. It occurs almost on top of  an East Paraná  mountain where backpackers use to go. The spot is a very turistic (mountain climber backpacker tourists) one and the movent is quite intense up there.
People go by train from Curitiba half the way to Paranaguá early in the morning and them
return to Curitiba  by midafternoon also by train.
It is a very beautiful scenery fullfiled by canyons, valleys and intense greenery.
...and the plant lives there right in the face of everybody...unknown, unnamed...unseen but protected.




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