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Map of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon)
In this e-mail I told Rémy that his Epiphyllum wasn't unknown any more and gave him its name.
But I also told him: Rémy, in which precise place of the island did you find the plant? Is it abundantly widespread or did you notice it only in one very precise area?
And Rémy answered: I noticed it only once, while walking to the top of a mountain, really far from any city, next to the house of an inhabitant who is probably a rice grower, more precisely above a plain where people grow rice. That is located between Avissawella and Ratnapura (N.B see blue point on the map above). There is no known botanical garden nearby nor hotels with a garden either. It's rather a working area.
That seemed to indicate that the plant had been naturalized in the island of Sri Lanka and more precisely, at least in the South-western part of the island which is the most rainy part.
The climate of Ratnapura is a very wet tropical climate with few temperature variations: annual precipitations are of 3750mm (12.3 feet), the monthly average temperatures range between 27 and 28.5°C (80.6 to 83.3°F) and the temperature is always between 20 and 33°C (from 68 to 91.5°F). (see link at the end of the article).
So, in Ratnapura we are in a climate close to some parts of Central or South America, where Epiphyllum phyllanthus ssp. hookeri is growing.
And I asked Rémy if he had taken pictures
of this Epiphyllum in its Sri Lankan biotope. Next
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PHOTOS OF ALL MY BOTANICAL EPIPHYLLUM
PHOTOS OF ALL MY HYBRID EPIPHYLLUM
REPRODUCTION BY SOWING OF EPIPHYLLUM OXYPETALUM
TIKAL : AN EPIPHYLLUM BIOTOPE AND ALSO AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAYA SITE
A VIETNAMESE LEGEND ABOUT EPIPHYLLUM OXYPETALUM
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