Date: 2/20/18

Location: San Francisco Botanical Garden

Geographic Information:

Coordination: 37° 46′ 5.75″ N, 122° 28′ 11.9″ W

Site description:

San Francisco Botanical Garden is located in the San Francisco’s Golden Gate park. This site is 55 acres and includes over 50,000 plants, representing over 8000 species from around the world. The general habitat for this site mainly consists of landscaped gardens and open spaces. There is an abundance of the flower and plants from Central America, South America and Southeast Asia in this site. The dominant species include:Magnolia species, high elevation palms, and cloud forest species. San Francisco Botanical Garden provides visitors with a place, where they can learn more about nature, plants and the environment, while being able to enjoy the amazing scenery.

Species description and digital collection: 

 

Overall plant and its habitat: These plants grow in clusters and are seen on a shruby tree, which are about 5 feet tall.

Leaves: Simple, alternate, leathery and thick. Margin is entire, the apex is round and the leaves are about 30 cm long and 15-20 cm wide.

Flowers: Grow in dense clusters (umble) of 30 or more, calyx rim-like, corolla (petals) sulfur or dark yellow about 8 cm long and 5 cm wide, 8-lobed, 16 stamens, style glabrous with a large crimson or pink stigma.

This plant was found in the middle section of the Botanical Garden.

 

 

Overall plant and its habitat: perennial and herbaceous, around 22 inches tall, with flowers being around 4 inches across, generally from bulb

Leaves: several basal  leaves which are linear and are long and narrow and the leaf color is light green to blue-green.

Flowers:  generally fragrant; perianth parts fused below, reflexed to erect above, crown a conspicuous tube; stamens are free generally included in crown; style 1, stigma minutely 3-lobed.

Fruit: capsule, loculicidal, papery to leathery.

Seed: many, black.

Stem: The stems erect, generally cylindric and solid.

This plant was represented in multiple sections of the Botanical Garden and was seen near the entrance part as well as midsection of this site.

 

 

Overall plant and its habitat: succulent, subtropical, subshrub, clumps up to 3 feet (90 cm)

Leaves: rosettes near stem tips, leaves alternate, generally obovate to oblanceolate

Flowers:  Flower: erect, calyx, corolla not circumscissile in fruit; sepals [6]7–11[16]; stamens 2 × sepals in number; erect pistils

Stem: tall gray-brown stems, often branch near their base, stems hold large terminal rosettes.

This plant was found before the entrance section of the Botanical Garden.

 

Narrative: 

I went to botanical garden on Tuesday( 2/20) as a make up for lab since I could not make it to Baltimore Canyon. I got to the the garden around 2:20 pm. The weather was a little windy and there were many colorful flowers in the garden. There are many different sections within the Botanical Garden that represent flowers and plants seen in various parts of the world. I went to majority of these sections and took pictures of the scenery. There was a beautiful water fountain in the middle section of this garden. The video of this fountain can be found below. After taking pictures of plants and enjoying a beautiful day at the garden, I left around 4pm.

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Additional Plants seen: