A selection of pictures showing plants in their natural habitats....
Click on the thumbnails for enlarged versions of the pictures and the accompanying remarks
This page is dedicated to the late Alan Craig who so loved Chile and its plants, and who assisted in the preparation of these notes and who provided all the accompanying photographs.
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The Republic of Chile is a long, narrow country - approximately 4,300km (2,700 miles) long by a maximum of 350km (220 miles) wide - which runs north-south on the Pacific coast of South America. It borders with Peru in the north and ends at the tip of South America at Cape Horn, only about 400 miles north of Antarctica in the south.
Chile is mostly mountainous, with the Andes range dominating the landscape. Northern Chile is mostly desert, including the extremely dry Atacama Desert, the central region is more temperate (the capital, Santiago and most of the population lives here), south-central Chile is a lake and forest region while the southern part (almost a third of the country) is cold, wet and windy. |
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The significant majority of the Chilean cacti - and all the pictures shown here - can be found to the north of the capital Santiago.
As a general guide the following pictures represent a progression from north to south. |
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