Saturday, March 30, 2013

Ornamental plants Pachypodium

Ornamental plants Pachypodium one is actually popular in Indonesia around the beginning of the 1990s era. But somehow new in the early 2007's interest to return crowded plants. And abroad, already more than 1 century, researchers, enthusiasts and collectors hunting and collecting rare plants that supposedly endangered plant species.


Pachypodium plants that supposedly is believed to have lived for millions of years before the stone age era, is a plant that can continue to evolve and be able to adjust to the habitat in which it grows. The rest of this one ancient plants can still survive and sustainable mampumenarik until now has been the interest of researchers and collectors of rare plants since the end of the 18th century.


 New species of Pachypodium plants continue born, being able to evolve that occurs in these plants continue to bear the new hybrid species, not only in the natural habitat (Madagascar), but across the continent in which plants can grow and evolve. It is said that there are hundreds of species of Pachypodium plants that can not be identified and classified.


While this is only about 25 species are widely known in the world. In Indonesia, this plant is new to the era of the 1990s, cultivated species is limited (approximately less than 15 species which can be found in Indonesia) because of compliance requirements and stunted growth protection problems imposed by the country of origin (Madagascar), and other countries in Southern Africa.
 Yet there is very Pachypodium species of plants attract the lovers of ornamental plants in Indonesia because of the thorny cob shape and form of leaves and flowers are beautiful.

Pachypodium is a plant native (endemic plants) on the island of Madagascar, southern Africa (Mozambique, Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Swaziland).

Many people consider Pachypodium cactus like plants, and some are even considered included in the class of ornamental plants palm.

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