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Chihuly / January 20, 2007

The Chihuly at Fairchild exhibition returned and was on exhibit once again throughout Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden from December 9, 2006, to May 31, 2007. World renowned artist Dale Chihuly is making an unprecedented return to Fairchild with a new and expanded installation of his magnificient art. The 2007 exhibition marks the first time Dale Chihuly has ever exhibited in the same location twice. Dale Chihuly is most frequently lauded for revolutionizing the Studio Glass movement by expanding its original premise of the solitary artist working in a studio environment to encompass the notion of collaborative teams and a division of labor within the creative process. However, Chihuly's contribution extends well beyond the boundaries of both this movement and even the field of glass: his achievements have influenced contemporary art in general.
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  • Citron Green Tower with Red Infusion

    Citron Green Tower with Red Infusion

    In front of the Visitor Center

  • Citron Green Tower with Red Infusion

    Citron Green Tower with Red Infusion

    In front of the Visitor Center

  • Citron Green Tower with Red Infusion

    Citron Green Tower with Red Infusion

    In front of the Visitor Center

  • Desert Cassia

    Desert Cassia

    Fairchild's 2006 Plant of the Year, the Desert Cassia (Senna polyphylla) is the supreme butterfly attraction. It is drought tolerant and excels under the toughest growing condition. Canary yellow flowers smother each branch, setting the shrub aglow with color. It blooms most of the year, heaviest during the South Florida dry season. Tiny leaves and interesting gnarled branches create a bonsai-like appearance.

  • Desert Cassia

    Desert Cassia

    Fairchild's 2006 Plant of the Year, the Desert Cassia (Senna polyphylla) is the supreme butterfly attraction. It is drought tolerant and excels under the toughest growing condition. Canary yellow flowers smother each branch, setting the shrub aglow with color. It blooms most of the year, heaviest during the South Florida dry season. Tiny leaves and interesting gnarled branches create a bonsai-like appearance.

  • Flame of Jamaica

    Flame of Jamaica

    Fairchild's Plant of the Year 2008, the Flame of Jamaica (Euphorbia punicea) thrives on limestone, needs no irrigation, and is a very light feeder. Its slow growth, upright habit, and branching structure make pruning irrelevant. Flame of Jamaica has the potential to bloom almost year round. What we see as a flower is actually an unusual inflorescence surround by showy bracts, or modified leaves. These bracts can range in color from orangish-pink to scarlet to crimson red. Warblers and honey bees visit throughout the day, taking advantage of the abundant sweet nectar.

  • Flame of Jamaica

    Flame of Jamaica

    Fairchild's Plant of the Year 2008, the Flame of Jamaica (Euphorbia punicea) thrives on limestone, needs no irrigation, and is a very light feeder. Its slow growth, upright habit, and branching structure make pruning irrelevant. Flame of Jamaica has the potential to bloom almost year round. What we see as a flower is actually an unusual inflorescence surround by showy bracts, or modified leaves. These bracts can range in color from orangish-pink to scarlet to crimson red. Warblers and honey bees visit throughout the day, taking advantage of the abundant sweet nectar.

  • Flame of Jamaica

    Flame of Jamaica

    Fairchild's Plant of the Year 2008, the Flame of Jamaica (Euphorbia punicea) thrives on limestone, needs no irrigation, and is a very light feeder. Its slow growth, upright habit, and branching structure make pruning irrelevant. Flame of Jamaica has the potential to bloom almost year round. What we see as a flower is actually an unusual inflorescence surround by showy bracts, or modified leaves. These bracts can range in color from orangish-pink to scarlet to crimson red. Warblers and honey bees visit throughout the day, taking advantage of the abundant sweet nectar.

  • Vine Pergola

    Vine Pergola

  • Albizia niopoides

    Albizia niopoides

    Albizia niopoides

  • Albizia niopoides

    Albizia niopoides

    Albizia niopoides

  • Brazilian Red Cloak

    Brazilian Red Cloak

    Brazilian Red Cloak (Megaskepasma erythrochlamys)

  • Red Powder Puff

    Red Powder Puff

    Red Powder Puff (Calliandra haematocephala)

  • Mandrinette

    Mandrinette

    The Mandrinette (Hibiscus fragilis) is one of the many Critically Endangered plant species unique to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. There are only 46 mature plants left at the two known localities and they are not regenerating because of competition from introduced alien plant species. Although the species is easy to propagate from cuttings, long-term maintenance in botanic gardens is problematic because the species hybridizes easily with the introduced garden plant Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. In response, Fairchild conservationalists are working hard to grow seedlings from plants growing in their nurseries. The only hope for the continued survival of the species is management of the wild populations, clearance of the alien invaders and restocking from known cultivated sources.

  • Mandrinette

    Mandrinette

    The Mandrinette (Hibiscus fragilis) is one of the many Critically Endangered plant species unique to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. There are only 46 mature plants left at the two known localities and they are not regenerating because of competition from introduced alien plant species. Although the species is easy to propagate from cuttings, long-term maintenance in botanic gardens is problematic because the species hybridizes easily with the introduced garden plant Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. In response, Fairchild conservationalists are working hard to grow seedlings from plants growing in their nurseries. The only hope for the continued survival of the species is management of the wild populations, clearance of the alien invaders and restocking from known cultivated sources.

  • Monkey's Brush

    Monkey's Brush

    Monkey's Brush (Combretum aubletii)

  • Monkey's Brush

    Monkey's Brush

    Monkey's Brush (Combretum aubletii)

  • Monkey's Brush

    Monkey's Brush

    Monkey's Brush (Combretum aubletii)

  • Monkey's Brush

    Monkey's Brush

    Monkey's Brush (Combretum aubletii)

  • Niijima Floats

    Niijima Floats

    In the Benjamin Rush Sibley Victoria Amazonica Pool

  • Niijima Floats

    Niijima Floats

    In the Benjamin Rush Sibley Victoria Amazonica Pool

  • Niijima Floats

    Niijima Floats

    In the Benjamin Rush Sibley Victoria Amazonica Pool

  • Red and Amber Reeds

    Red and Amber Reeds

    In the Spiny Forest of Madagascar

  • Red and Amber Reeds

    Red and Amber Reeds

    In the Spiny Forest of Madagascar

  • Red and Amber Reeds

    Red and Amber Reeds

    In the Spiny Forest of Madagascar

  • Red and Amber Reeds

    Red and Amber Reeds

    In the Spiny Forest of Madagascar

  • Red and Amber Reeds

    Red and Amber Reeds

    In the Spiny Forest of Madagascar

  • Red and Amber Reeds

    Red and Amber Reeds

    In the Spiny Forest of Madagascar

  • Red and Amber Reeds

    Red and Amber Reeds

    In the Spiny Forest of Madagascar

  • Red and Amber Reeds

    Red and Amber Reeds

    In the Spiny Forest of Madagascar

  • Red and Amber Reeds

    Red and Amber Reeds

    In the Spiny Forest of Madagascar

  • Red and Amber Reeds

    Red and Amber Reeds

    In the Spiny Forest of Madagascar

  • Lin Lougheed Spiny Forest of Madagascar

    Lin Lougheed Spiny Forest of Madagascar

    The Lin Lougheed Spiny Forest of Madagascar showcases some of the wonderful plants found in Madagascar’s spiny desert ranges and brings attention to the woeful destruction of these natural areas. This exhibit is a representative display of the variety of unusual and rare plants found in this threatened habitat, of which ninety five percent are endemic, meaning they are found nowhere else in the world. Collection of wood for fuel and construction material, overgrazing, land clearing for agriculture, and the spread of nonnative plants are impacting these forests.

  • Lin Lougheed Spiny Forest of Madagascar

    Lin Lougheed Spiny Forest of Madagascar

    The Lin Lougheed Spiny Forest of Madagascar showcases some of the wonderful plants found in Madagascar’s spiny desert ranges and brings attention to the woeful destruction of these natural areas. This exhibit is a representative display of the variety of unusual and rare plants found in this threatened habitat, of which ninety five percent are endemic, meaning they are found nowhere else in the world. Collection of wood for fuel and construction material, overgrazing, land clearing for agriculture, and the spread of nonnative plants are impacting these forests.

  • Lin Lougheed Spiny Forest of Madagascar

    Lin Lougheed Spiny Forest of Madagascar

    The Lin Lougheed Spiny Forest of Madagascar showcases some of the wonderful plants found in Madagascar’s spiny desert ranges and brings attention to the woeful destruction of these natural areas. This exhibit is a representative display of the variety of unusual and rare plants found in this threatened habitat, of which ninety five percent are endemic, meaning they are found nowhere else in the world. Collection of wood for fuel and construction material, overgrazing, land clearing for agriculture, and the spread of nonnative plants are impacting these forests.

  • Cape Aloe

    Cape Aloe

    Cape Aloe (Aloe ferox)

  • Cape Aloe

    Cape Aloe

    Cape Aloe (Aloe ferox)

  • Cape Aloe

    Cape Aloe

    Cape Aloe (Aloe ferox)

  • Chinese Yellow Banana

    Chinese Yellow Banana

    Known to the Yunnanese since antiquity, the Chinese Yellow Banana (Musella lasiocarpa) plant first came to the attention of western botanists following its collection in 1885 at 1,200 m. in Yunnan by the Abbé Delavay (Kew Bull., Add. Ser. 6: 15, 1906). Musella lasiocarpa was recorded first in Yunnan, China where the local names for the plant translate as "yellow lotus emerging from the earth" or "yellow lotus of the earth mother" or, more simply, "rock banana."

  • Chinese Yellow Banana

    Chinese Yellow Banana

    Known to the Yunnanese since antiquity, the Chinese Yellow Banana (Musella lasiocarpa) plant first came to the attention of western botanists following its collection in 1885 at 1,200 m. in Yunnan by the Abbé Delavay (Kew Bull., Add. Ser. 6: 15, 1906). Musella lasiocarpa was recorded first in Yunnan, China where the local names for the plant translate as "yellow lotus emerging from the earth" or "yellow lotus of the earth mother" or, more simply, "rock banana."

  • Floss Silk Tree

    Floss Silk Tree

    The Floss Silk Tree (Ceiba speciosa), formerly Chorisia speciosa, is a deciduous tropical native to Brazil and Argentina but cultivated in many tropical areas. It is well known for the large spikes protecting the trunk and limbs. Silk Floss blooms in early fall in South Florida with abandon. The older the tree, the better the flower display.

  • Floss Silk Tree

    Floss Silk Tree

    The Floss Silk Tree (Ceiba speciosa), formerly Chorisia speciosa, is a deciduous tropical native to Brazil and Argentina but cultivated in many tropical areas. It is well known for the large spikes protecting the trunk and limbs. Silk Floss blooms in early fall in South Florida with abandon. The older the tree, the better the flower display.

  • Chartreuse Hornet Polyvitro Chandelier

    Chartreuse Hornet Polyvitro Chandelier

    Chartreuse Hornet Polyvitro Chandelier

  • Tropical Milkweed

    Tropical Milkweed

    The Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) [Butterfly heaven] is one of the plants found in Fairchild's Butterfly Garden. A beautiful Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is sipping the nectar.

  • Monarch Butterfly

    Monarch Butterfly

    Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) alighting on the leaf of a Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica).

  • Monarch Butterfly

    Monarch Butterfly

    Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) alighting on the leaf of a Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica).

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