Fuchsia paniculata Lindl.
Fuchsia paniculata (Onagraceae) Tim Waters Gallery http://www.flickr.com/photos/61416618 @ N00/2357893532
Family: Onagraceae
Fuchsia paniculata is a species with spectacular flowers, is a shrub typical of the cool highlands of Central America. Throughout the year is covered with large panicles of bright pink flowers. Each group can contain dozens of flowers. The flowers are very interesting, even at the stage where they are sprouting, starting or magenta pink before opening to a soft pink as they open. The effect is bright and colorful. In Costa Rica there has been from 1300 to 3700 masl.
Fuchsia paniculata have many small flowers pollination syndromes indicate that use short-billed hummingbirds. behaves like a "generalist" for hummingbirds and many species that visit, probably because flowers small, capable of being visited by hummingbirds of different sizes of beaks. (1)
forms a large woody shrub or tree up to 5 m high. You can prune the plant to adjust to any suitable size. Even without flowers, is a beautiful plant with large leaves and an attractive bright red stems. After flowering arise edible berries of a strawberry. Slightly sweet with a mild flavor and kiwi.
Fuchsia paniculata http://www.museocostarica.go.cr/index.php?option=com_zoom&Itemid=62&page=view&catid=82 & ; key = 7 & hit = 1 & lang = en_EN
Fuchsia Paniculata comes from cloud forests and this is the environment they prefer, with mild temperatures throughout the year. Could not thrive in temperatures above 29 ° C, especially if the nights are warm. It can handle a few degrees of frost (-3 ° C), but the foliage may die. We recommend protecting the plant from freezing temperatures. Like most of Fuchsias, likes moist soil with good drainage, regular fertilization. This is a species resistant to mites. (2)
The genus Fuchsia
Fuchsia is a genus of flowering plants consisting mainly of shrubs or small trees. The first fuchsia triphylla, was discovered in the formerly named The English island (now the Dominican Republic and Haiti) in 1703 by the monk of the Order of Minims and French botanist, Charles Plumier . He named this new genre as recognition of the famous German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566). Most of these shrubs are very showy blooms with pendant flowers are presented for nearly all year in tropical species.
Most species are native fuchsia Central America and South America . A small number of species found on the English (2 species), New Zealand (3 species) and Tahiti (1 species). The most recent scientific publications, especially those of the botanists Dr. Dennis E. Breedlove (University of California) and Prof. Paul E. Berry (Herbarium of the State of Wisconsin), recognized almost 110 species organized into twelve sections. (3)
(3) http://en.wikipedia .org / wiki / Fuchsia
volcanoes Hummingbird, Selasphorus flammula .
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Gender: Selasphorus
Species: flammula
Common Name: Sparks, hummingbird fly volcanera spark
Taxonomy: Selasphorus flammula Salvin, 1865, Volcan Irazu, Costa Rica.
Volcano Hummingbird, Selasphorus flammula is the smallest species of hummingbird in the highlands of Costa Rica. Mainly inhabits open areas with shrubs in the mountains, where it seeks nectar from flowers as Fuhcsia microphylla and Bomarea acutifolia. This small endemic bird also inhabits open areas with shrubs, heath, and the edges dwarf forests at altitudes of 1850 m of the highest peaks. It measures only 7.5 cm long. The male weighs 2.5 grams and the females 2.8. Its black bill is short and straight.
One of the reasons that makes this species is more interesting is that differences between males of the Cordillera de Talamanca , the volcanoes of Irazu Turrialba and and the volcanoes Poas and Barva , although the female is the same. Are subspecies differences in color patterns.
Subspecies and Distribution:
• Selasphorus flammula simoni syn. Selasphorus simoni
Carriker, 1910 - C Costa Rica (Volcano Poas and Barba).
• Selasphorus flammula flammula syn. Selasphorus flammula
Salvin, 1865 - C Costa Rica (Irazu and Turrialba Volcano).
• flammula Selasphorus torridus syn. Selasphorus torridus
Salvin, 1870 - S Costa Rica (the most widespread form, through the Cordillera de Talamanca in Costa Rica to Panama)
Color the throat varies by region, with gray-purple in the Cordillera de Talamanca ; red in the mountains of volcanoes Poas, Barva , and color Purple Rose Area volcanoes Irazu-Turrialba . The volcano hummingbird adult has bronze green back and tail edges of the red and black. The rest of the underparts are white. The female is similar, but its neck is white with dark spots. Young birds resemble the female, but with beige stripes on the upper plumage.
During courtship, the male performs a dance. After fertilization, the female is entirely responsible for nest building and incubation. Build a nest lined with spider webs, lichens and mosses. It is built on a low-lying bush. The female lays two eggs over a period of two days, she incubates for 14 to 19 days. Hummingbirds feed their young for about three to four weeks. The female goes to the nest until 140 times a day during this period to feed their young.
Spectacular images of hummingbirds sipping nectar from various tropical flowers.
Streptosolen jamesonii Miers (1850)
Order: Solanales .
Family: Solanaceae .
Subfamily: Cestroideae.
Gender: Streptosolen monotypic native of Los Andes.
Common name: Estreptosolen, Trompetitas orange, yellow heliotrope.
Source: Colombia, Peru, Ecuador.
Streptosolen is a genus of flowering plants, which is naturalized in Costa Rica and is usually seen in parks and gardens. Comprises two species.
Streptosolen jamesonii is a shrub that blooms profusely for several months after initiating the country's dry season in December and March. I recommend it to be a favorite of many species of hummingbirds, provides abundant nectar in months when flowers are scarce. I saw the hummingbird Selasphorus flammula and other species sip their nectar.
evergreen shrub that does not exceed 2 m. high and 1.5 m. lateral development, which even provides for hedges and topiaries . It occurs in a range of 1,200 to 2,500 m altitude. Leaves simple, alternate, upright, oval, hairy, dark green, 2 to 3 cm. long. with long, flexible stems that bend slightly due to the dense clusters of small flowers. colorful flowers yellow to orange, gathered in terminal corymbs. The flowers are tubular, 3-4 cm lobed petal length designed for pollination by hummingbirds and insects.
- need light, well drained soil enriched with organic matter.
- have to keep the soil moist in the warmer seasons.
- their proliferation is very likely by cuttings.
- It is best to prune it to keep it compact thus encourages new blooms. In fact I make a recommendation to prune it twice a year, allowing time for recover foliage blooms, starting in December. The blooms are much more abundant than those found in a bush without pruning, which also looks messy.
gorgiblanco Hummingbird mountain. Lampornis castaneoventris . (Gould, 1851)
Photo Rodolfo Alvarez.
Order: Trochiliformes
Family: Trochilidae
Gender: Lampornis
Species: castaneoventris
common whose name : Hummingbird Coligris Montanes, White-throated Mountain-gem.
mountain Hummingbird gorgiblanco or Coligris is a endangered species in Costa Rica (1). Is a resident in montane evergreen forest of Costa Rica and Panama. The diet of this kind is nectar, taken from a variety of small flowering plants. Like other hummingbirds also consume small insects as an essential source of protein. This was photographed in San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica.
The hummingbirds of the genus Lampornis Swainson, 1827, inhabit the mountainous regions of southwestern United States, all the Central American isthmus to Panama .
hummingbirds are medium to large (10-13 cm). Males usually have green backs and bright throat, which is an opaque color in the female. Females of some species may also differ significantly from males in plumage characteristics. Females are solely responsible for nest building and incubation. She lays two white eggs in a Deep cup nest of plant fiber. Incubation lasts 15 to 19 days, and fledging another 20-26.
There are a number of subspecies and their distribution here :
• castaneoventris Lampornis pectoralis (Salvin, 1891) - South end of Nicaragua to northern and central Costa Rica. The groups are: purple-throated, blue-tailed calolaemus (with pectoralis and homogeneity).
• Lampornis castaneoventris calolaemus (Salvin, 1865) - Cordillera Central and northern end of the Cordillera de Talamanca (Costa Rica). white-throated, blue-tailed castaneoventris.
• Lampornis castaneoventris cinereicauda (Lawrence, 1867) - Cordillera de Talamanca (Costa Rica S). white-throated, Grey-tailed cinereicauda.
• Lampornis castaneoventris homogeneous Wetmore, 1967 - South Pacific slope of Costa Rica (probably) and western Panama.
• Lampornis castaneoventris castaneoventris (Gould, 1851) - west end of Panama.
This classification is hotly contested, especially after they became analysis and biogeography DNA sequences of mitochondrial and nuclear Garcia-Moreno et al. (2006) have confirmed the arrangement and the evolutionary relationships of the suspected, but according to the results of these studies have emerged surprising facts:
These results are interesting, because they agree with a general trend for southern Mexico taxa (including those who settled the isthmus forming species. In addition, the group of Central Lampornis offers a glimpse at an intermediate stage in evolution, with a shape ( Lampornis calolaema ) who recently became a distinct species, while white-collar relatives are in the process be divided into two species, but has not done so. The mitochondrial DNA (inherited only the mother) suggests that the purple-necked rock Hummingbird Mountain can still form fertile hybrids with white-collar forms and in fact rarely happens. These and other data found on the page: http://www.ask.com/wiki/Mountain-gem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-throated_Mountain-gem
twining plants are usually ( as the stem is long, thin, flexible, gnarled vine ) or vines that can reach 4.5 m in height. All have a very striking blossom of a flower bouquet and flowers usually umbelliform campanulate, red, pink or orange or yellow tone. Arranged in simple or compound umbels. The flowers attract many birds, such as volcanoes Hummingbird, Selasphorus flammula and fire-throated hummingbird, Panterpe insignis. However Bomarea costaricensis is a species that uses a strategy known as "white" bonanza ", is that plants provide rewards only a few flowers on the inflorescence, which are indistinguishable for pollinator and therefore the inflorescence acts as a hoax (Rathcke 1992). There are many flowers without nectar in the inflorescence and there is a clear signal (such as corolla length) to distinguish between flowers with little or much nectar. This survival strategy evolved from the need to reduce the damage caused by insects and birds that steal nectar, ie reaching the nectary by a lateral hole without help pollinate the plant. (3)
Gender Bomarea
Photo of Joanna Cruz
of native species that attract hummingbirds interesting flowering are of the genus Bomarea represented in Costa Rica by 10 species of 120 species have been documented. Are tuberous plants (plants that have lumps in the root or stem), native to tropical regions of America and Andean altitudinal range is from 1,500 to 4,000 m asl . Belongs to the family Alstroemeriaceae . The generic name is dedicated to the French pharmaceutical Valmont Bomar (1731-1807), who visited several European countries and is the author of "Dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle" in 12 volumes (Since 1768). (1)
All Costa Rican species are restricted to elevations above 1000 m (especially above 1500 m ), except for Bomarea edulis Pacific and Bomarea obovata the Atlantic lowlands. However, a single species costaricensis Bomarea Kraenzl., Can be counted as endemic. An eleven species of Turrialba Volcano , is not well known, as can be seen in Flora Mesomericana, not yet have a password, or is treated formally. (2) Many of these plants can be seen in secondary forest, secondary forest and wet thickets.
twining plants are usually ( as the stem is long, thin, flexible, gnarled vine ) or vines that can reach 4.5 m in height. All have a very striking blossom of a flower bouquet and flowers usually umbelliform campanulate, red, pink or orange or yellow tone. Arranged in simple or compound umbels. The flowers attract many birds, such as volcanoes Hummingbird, Selasphorus flammula and fire-throated hummingbird, Panterpe insignis. However Bomarea costaricensis is a species that uses a strategy known as "white" bonanza ", is that plants provide rewards only a few flowers on the inflorescence, which are indistinguishable for pollinator and therefore the inflorescence acts as a hoax (Rathcke 1992). There are many flowers without nectar in the inflorescence and there is a clear signal (such as corolla length) to distinguish between flowers with little or much nectar. This survival strategy evolved from the need to reduce the damage caused by insects and birds that steal nectar, ie reaching the nectary by a lateral hole without help pollinate the plant. (3)
The photo shown was taken by Joanna Cruz on its way to the Chirripó . I can not tell what species it is because some may have flower shapes and colors very similar. So I list all known species of Costa Rica for its importance as a plant that can be viable to attract hummingbirds.
Nombre científico:
Bomarea caldasii
Bomarea chiriquina
Bomarea costaricensis
Bomarea edulis
Bomarea acuminata
Bomarea andreana
Bomarea acutifolia
Bomarea hirsuta
Bomarea obovata
Bomarea porschiana
Common Name: Potato Venison .
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