#azorella

[wikipediapictures]

Yareta

[lovecraftsgarden]

Azorella compacta

3,000 year old Yareta plant

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[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 2 July 2017

Azorella trifoliolata produces these amazing cushions of groundcover 'landscapes'. This plants is native to Chile, Argentina and to southern Patagonia. It is normally found at the limits of vegetation in the mountains, especially along the edges of rivers and lakes. Here it was near the summit of the rock garden of Copenhagen Botanic Garden, Denmark! 

Jill Raggett

[yerbateca]

🌿 Azorella crenata (Azorella crenata)

Medicinal plant with documented traditional uses.

Yerbateca.org botanical encyclopedia with PubMed citations

[escuerzoresucitado]

[kamilah-blog]

Azorella compacta plant in Bolivia. AKA yareta or llareta, or cushion plant. Possibly related to carrots, the mounds are hard and built up from the dead leaves of the plant. They can live for hundreds of years. So bizarre.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azorella_compacta

[earth-phenomenon-blog]

Yareta (Azorella compacta)

Grows at altitudes of between 3200 and 4500 meters. The pink or lavender flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by insects. The plant is self-fertile. The plant grows in a very compact way in order to reduce heat losses and very close to ground level where air temperature is one or two degrees Celsius higher than the mean air temperature. Native to Chile, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia. Local people use the plant for fuel and cooking.The amount of yareta being removed had become so significant the ecologists feared that the plant would become extinct. So, the four countries in which it grows have now prohibited its extraction. Yareta is well-adapted to high isolation rates which are typical of the highlands, and cannot grow in shade. The plant growth rate has been recently estimated at approximately 1.5 centimeters per year (Kleier and Rundel 2004). Many yaretas are over 3,000 years old.