FIELD TRIP WITH PATRICK BLANC IN ECUADOR - MASHPI CLOUD FOREST

The Botanist Patrick Blanc, inventor of the Vertical Garden (Mur Végétal) takes you to a Field Trip in the cloud forests of Ecuador, on the Pacific side of the Andes at 1000 m altitude, this area being the southernmost part of the Choco ecoregion, one of the world's biodiversity hotspots.
We thank Mark Hughes, Marc Jeanson, Guido Mathieu, David Scherberich and Michael Sundue for some plant species identifications, Nestor Paladines from Mashpi Lodge and Régis Nicolas from Traveler in the World.
Filmed & Produced by Pascal Héni
PasPat 2021
Plant list :
Adelonema picturatum, Aneilema umbrosum, Anthopterus wardii, Anthurium amoenum, Anthurium bernalii, Anthurium cf. brownii, Anthurium cf. dolichostachyum, Anthurium esmeraldense, Anthurium melampyi, Anthurium ovatifolium, Anthurium pulverulentum, Anthurium sp., Anthurium truncicola, Asplundia cf. platyphylla, Banara regia, Begonia foliosa, Begonia harlingii, Begonia longirostris, Begonia maurandiae, Begonia maurandiae, Begonia parviflora, Bomarea pardina, Burmeistera multiflora, Burmeistera velutina, Capsicum geminifolium, Cavendishia venosa, Centropogon cf. solanifolius, cf. Microchilus, Chlorospatha atropurpurea, Clibadium laxum, Clusia sp., Columnea albovinosa, Columnea floribunda, Columnea medicinalis, Columnea minor, Columnea parviflora, Columnea picta, Columnea sp., Cyperus chalaranthus, Diastema affine, Diastema scabrum, Dichorisandra sp., Dicranopygium sp., Diplazium ceratolepis, Drymonia cf. macrophylla, Drymonia collegarum, Drymonia teuscheri, Drymonia turrialvae, Gasteranthus lateralis, Gasteranthus pansamalanus, Gasteranthus quitensis, Geonoma undata, Glossoloma sprucei, Grias peruviana, Guarea cf. fistulosa, Gurania lobata, Guzmania amplectens, Guzmania sanguinea, Heliconia harlingii, Heliconia sp., Heliconia willisiana, Hoffmannia cf. obovata, Huntleya wallisii, Kohleria villosa, Ludovia integrifolia, Maybe a form of Geonoma stricta, Monnina speciosa, Monolena elliptica, Monophyllorchis maculata, Napeanthus robustus, Oxalis hedysaroides, Palicourea acanthacea, Palicourea amethystina, Palicourea cyanococca, Palicourea glomerulata, Palicourea sodiroi, Palmorchis trilobulata, Peperomia albert-smithii, Peperomia caespitosa, Peperomia cf. fragrantissima, Peperomia lancifolia, Peperomia pachystachya, Peperomia sp., Peperomia sp. aff. P. rugosa, Philodendron fibrosum, Philodendron lynnhannoniae, Piper appendiculatum, Piper cf. chuarense, Piper filistilum, Piper trianae, Pitcairnia barringae, Pitcairnia sp., Pitcairnia stevensonii, Podandrogyne brevipedunculata, Psammisia ulbrichiana, Pteris tripartita, Renealmia thyrsoidea, Rubiaceae sp., Schefflera sphaerocoma, Selaginella sp., Socratea exorrhiza, Sphyrospermum buxifolium, Spigelia pedunculata, Steiropteris decussata, Thoracocarpus bissectus, Trichodrymonia splendens, Trichomanes elegans, Urera baccifera, Xanthosoma sp., Xanthosoma undipes, Xiphidium caeruleum

[@cedricbernat]

10000000 merciiiiiiis, Patrick !!! 🤩💖💓🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@laurencejessamy5367]

Thank you Patrick, this is like a trip to the garden of Eden, beautiful !!!!

[@nuttakran12]

Beautiful ! I love tropical forest 👏👏👏

[@Stian_lovas]

Amazing channel teaching us about botany. Absoulutely love the rainforest at the Mashpi cloud forest. Unique plants and habitat. 😃

[@meta.aesthetica]

I've never had an hour go by so fast! That was truly a pleasure and a joy to watch. Thank you so much for sharing this with us!

[@creaturefree]

I give some corrections or additions to the plant names, thanks to Charlotte Taylor and Thomas Couvreur : at 15.23, this is Faramea grandifolia, at 21.45 this is Isertia pittieri, at 25.45 this would be Palicourea flexuosa, at 33.44 this is Hoffmannia longipetiolata, at 35.20 this is Geonoma lanata and finally at 54.20 this is Grias theobromicarpa.

[@eliseolopez6504]

It's ok if there are innocent mistake s

[@ricardomassei9469]

FASCINANTE, QUE MARAVILLA DE PLANTAS, GRACIAS POR MOSTRARNOS TANTA BELLEZA.

[@12349vinicius]

Thanks for one more video, whenever I see the publication of a new video I'm very happy, please keep posting, I'm waiting for something from Brazil, hugs!

[@MrAksupriatna]

It is a very good video. I really enjoy to watch many beautiful flowering plants in the wild through this video. Thanks.

[@andrein7160]

Très intéressant, comme toujours

[@catherinerigaux6825]

Patrick merci tu nous fait voyager toutes ces plantes j’aimerai avoir une immense serre pour les collectionner cultiver et observer leurs développements encore merci pour tes vidéos j’aime ton accent english 😉👏👏👏👏👍👋

[@thefernlabmy]

Glad to see another field trip! Much support from 🇲🇾Malaisie.😁

[@creaturefree]

I miss your wonderful country, my first trip in tropical forests when I was only 19 ! I hope to come back soon.

[@teoroldan]

Great video, thanks Patrick! @46:00 Burmeistera velutina :) (endemic species from Mashpi forest)

[@creaturefree]

Thanks Mateo and happy you like the video by Pascal. And we thank also Nestor in the text because he was a wonderful guide, always taking photos of the tiny mosses and liverworts. Mashpi is also a great place for Piper species and I suspect that many of them are new.

[@alisasun7946]

C'ést genial!!! Wonderful explanation, beautiful plants, maximun experience :) Des gross bisous

[@Purwapada]

Beautiful. merci for the upload!

[@TheRoger42]

Astounding! My mind was blown away!!!

[@marcfrench3613]

Thanks so much for a new video!

[@plantasepifitasyterrestres5847]

Gracias amigo...hermosa selva

[@Maubotoable]

Gracias!!

[@creaturefree]

Thanks to Alejandra Jaramillo, we know that the Piper cf. chuarense, at minute 39'25, is actually Piper spoliatum.

[@damonroberts7372]

Thank you for sharing this video. This is a wondrous, beautiful forest, and it makes me so happy that places like this still exist in our increasingly crowded and polluted world. There's almost no chance I would be able to visit this forest, a virtual tour will have to do. :)

[@christinegnecchi]

Sous titrer en Français SVP......Pour ceux qui ne parles pas Anglais. Mr Blanc j’aime ce que vous faites .Vous nous faites voyager.

[@omnibus3890]

Best video of all more aroids

[@PepperGuru]

Love the Capsicum geminifolium observation at 30:00! Lovely specimen! Possible a Capsicum lycianthoides variant.

[@tanamtanam2038]

😍

[@konasteph]

Oh my ..I wish I had had the courage as a young person to admit that all I wanted to do was to go out into places such as this one and study the plants and creatures. The years are running so fast, what a shame.

[@Hildi.]

maybe you have the courage as a older person, don’t continue doing the same mistakes

[@MrAksupriatna]

What kind of anthurium is in minute 34:50? The vein is very beautiful reddish.

[@omnibus3890]

2nd time to watch this video haha

[@demskies]

Uñas

[@eliseolopez6504]

One foot of a rich jungle contains thousands of diversities for human benefits.what will I creat?

[@thepuirox1997]

4:33 do you have the plant description to come to that ID? I've seen it lot of times but I want to be sure about the species

[@creaturefree]

You can read the name at 4.46 : Peperomia cf. fragrantissima. According to Guido Mathieu this one is probably a new species close to P. fragrantissima.

[@marcelodiasd12]

Anybody Knows the genus of the plant in 8:29 ??

[@creaturefree]

Probably Centropogon grandidentatus, a good name...

[@eliseolopez6504]

Begonia maurandiae ✓

[@omnibus3890]

Can u ft. Philippines island in the next field trip🙂 especially the palawan island

[@creaturefree]

Bonjour, there are already Field trips in Palawan ! You can have a look at this one, in french language, where you'll see "my" begonia blancii that I discovered with Pascal in February 2009 and named in 2011. We came back with our friend Noemie and you'll see also in this film the het unnamed Begonia elnidoensis as well as the rare Begonia woodii : kzbin.info/www/bejne/f56QeneOndOeadU And also this video in English with Mark Hughes and Rosario Rubite who named Begonia blancii. Of course, Palawan is a wonderful island for plant diversity !

[@creaturefree]

And the link for the film in English with Rosario and Mark : kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZm3gWpshd5ohbc

[@omnibus3890]

I from bicol region ph. , and it has some begonias species. By the way i love all your film about plants

[@omnibus3890]

@@creaturefree i watch the video about begonia ,it amazing

[@Crazycosmichild]

thank u so much 4 visit my country if u had lucj u will discover a new type of variety easly in Ecuador Forest