Your window to the world of Chilean Plants...
Your Seeds Source...
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Your window to the world of Chilean Plants...
Your Seeds Source...
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The Key Points...
ChileFlora.com is your window to the world of the native Chilean plants and to their seeds. It provides you with the opportunity to learn about the Chilean plants, their nutritional and medicinal properties, identify them, and to purchase seeds.
Here you will find articles about the Chilean flora. Additionally, we present several galleries of images of the Chilean landscapes, in the belief that in order to understand fully the world of the Chilean plants you have to get a feeling for the environment in which they live. In the same section you will soon find descriptions of the different habitats in Chile.
The heart of our page is a database and on-line herbarium of live plants with the descriptions, uses, growing tips, and photos of many native Chilean plants - currently we present more than 2202 species with over 20353 photos, and soon we will make available much more from our internal data base with over 31000 photos and 2200 species! This is a long-term project and we hope eventually to cover most species of the Chilean flora (about 5000 species). You can also browse our database by means of Text Indexes.
Finally, we sell 700 species of Chilean native plants in our Seeds Shop.
Bookmark UsOur Philosophy of the Andes...
The Tools We Use and some Off-road fun...
Last year it has rained and rained in the northern parts of Chile, so that the desert had to wake up for a couple of months and show all its beauty...
See a film about the Blooming Chilean Desert
(High Resolution, 16 MB)
For the time being without sound.
Chileflora.com is 100 % private project and it is not financed by any entity, Chilean or foreign.
We are looking for strategic partners who may help us with our work and make the dream of a complete on-line virtual herbarium come true and develop other projects related to Chilean flora, both in the realm of publication/web and more down-to-earth projects (in the very concrete sense): formation of a botanical garden.
Therefore we are looking for entities who may be interested in developing projects of this nature together or sponsors who may provide financing for these projects...
The Key Points...
Photograph of Blepharocalyx cruckshanksii
See full record of this plant...
Buy seeds of similar plants...
We would like to inform you that we at Chileflora are now fully operational with all communication lines restored. For us, the earthquake of magnitutude 8.8 which shoock Chile on 27th of February is definitively over...
This time we do not offer any discounts. However, we will donate 25 % of the sales to local communities (a report about the donation will be uploaded later).
We at Chileflora were rather lucky, since we have not suffered almost any damage, with our seed stock and infrastructure fully intact, although we had to live through a few very stressfull days without communications, telephone, internet...
Many others in our vicinity were not so lucky, many houses sustained moderate to severe damage, and in some areas in the nearby towns and villages about 50 % of the houses suffered severe damage and maybe 25 % will have to be torn down or have collapsed during the earthquake. We have uploaded two articles:
A short compilation of photographs in Talca in the aftermath of the earthquake
just to show you what it felt like from our perspective. We were not able to help much during the initial stages, because of the lack of information, but now with your help we can contribute to rebuild the devastated areas of our community (Pelarco, Talca).
We simply ask you to make purchases of our seeds and we will donate 25 % of the sales.
Should you wish to make regular donations, you can do it through us, and we will channel these to the local community (legally we are not a beneficiency organization, though).
NEW SPECIES:
We have added a few new interesting species, including two violas, Viola fluehmannii and Viola rosulata, one Tropaeolum species, T. sessilfolium, High Andean valeriana macrorhiza, verbena sulpuhrea, solaria miersioides (similar to solaria brevicoalita), and another dozen of interesting species.
There are also several new orchids, Chloraea cylindrostachya, Chloraea incisa, Gavilea araucana, and also extremely rare Arachnitis uniflora, a species akin to Orchids, but without chlorophyll (probably requires the same germination procedures as other orchids), and also a few Poaceae which could be used as food for chinchillas.
We have started a Xmas sale. Do not miss on this opportunity!
All our species have a flat discount of 15 %. That is about 700 species which we have in stock!
This discount is valid from 23d of December through 2 of January 2010.
Check here the seeds which have a discount.
A random photo of Chilean Landscape
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