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  • From: "marcusadriana" <marcusadriana@mls.com.br>
  • To: <pleurothallid-l@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [pleurothallid-l] mini-Tornado
  • Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:38:59 -0200

Recently, January,the 1st , my ranch (20 acres of native, Atlantic coast, rain forest of altitude) suffered a tornado that put my higher trees down and root up, torn their high branches, crushed small trees, shaded from the luminosity the soil of the forest and cleared the medium secondary trees in the process of growing. The humidity changed drastically for every habitat from the canopy to the soil. I lost more than 400 centenial trees and down came bromeliads, cactus, phylodendrum, and orchids that I usually can save by putting them on my trees again at my eyes level.

The “domino” effect made it impossible to save plants that were submerged under 1 meter diameter, 20 m high trees, one pilled over the other and over the other making of 3 meters entangled and inaccessible by small branches with the under-forest bushes. This confusion of small elements + big trees gets in some places almost 10 m high of dead branches and dried leaves making impossible access and a dangerous one to scratches – I did not have specific body protection devices for this type of “hunting”.

I grabbed and planted more than 1000 orchids in a 2,5 days work with my foreman. I had to come back to my job in Rio (800 km away) and I hope my foreman at least tried to save more.

As the trees are very old I can only suppose that this phenomenon is very, very rare and can only be linked or due to a global warming.

Marcus

marcusadriana@msl.com.br

southeastern Brasil

 

 

 

 

  

 

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