New at the Botanic Garden

Plant labels .... Finally!

We are proud to finally offer plant identification labels in the botanic garden! More than 200 of our plant species are now complete with common and scientific names, offering taxonomic assistance to our students and visitors.
How was it possible that this family run project became one of the most professional botanic gardens in Ecuador? Come find out!

Special thanks to Anne Abram and the Royal Botanic Gardens of Ontario, Canada, honorary botanist Hans Mackrodt, and Matthew Bare, with donations from the Slipper Orchid Alliance and the J.H. and M. Fitzgerald families.

Droughts in the Amazon
Guayusa tea plant, one of our favorites

 

The Orchid and Botanical Garden of
Puyo, Ecuador

We´ve created a small parcel of restored Amazonian rainforest; where once stood degraded cattle pasture, today grows a lush secondary forest, teeming with more than 1200 species of plants, including hundreds of orchids, medicinal plants, tropical fruits and foods, and more.
The garden was established in the year 1980 by a local man, and for more than thirty years we have been observing the process of restoration in this corner of the tropics of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Cattle pasture in the Ecuadorian Amazon

View of a cattle pasture, how the Botanical Garden
looked 30 years ago.