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- From: "marcusadriana" <marcusadriana@mls.com.br>
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- 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 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 southeastern Brasil |
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- [pleurothallid-l] mini-Tornado, marcusadriana, 01/21/2006
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