Red Flower

English Name: Red Flower
Spanish Name: Ceibo
Scientific Name: Erythrynn Cristayall

Pretty red flowers are found surrounding La Reserva Ecologica de Vicente Lopez. This is a representative of Argentina's beauty. This art of nature is known as the Ceibo. It is the native flower to southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina.

It is very common to find it next to the water obstacles and low inundables, and infaltable in the different atmospheres that conform the Delta of the Parana. Beautiful tree of winding trunk and irregular glass, measures around 10m of height. Their seeds float and are transported by the water of the rios facilitating their dispersion. Their flowers, of intense red color are formed by 5 unequal petals.

Sauce Criollo

English Name: Sauce Criollo
Spanish Name: Sauce Criollo
Scientific Name: Salix Humboldtiana

Species of the banks of the rivers and the islands, through Mexico up to Uruguay and Argentina reaching as far south as Chubut. It grows on sandy islands and banks of rivers and streams, often forming willow woods known as sauzales. Flowers bloom during the months of August throughout December which is the same time that the foliation takes place. Then the fruits of the trees bloom from December up until March. The secret is that the seeds are dispersed by the wind.

The Sauce Criollo is used to cultivate forestry and in Argentina there are large areas that are used for growing willows for the use of lumber. This plant tends to grow rapidly once their seed is planted. It's main purposes are that of lowering fever, fights against aches and paines, used as a sedative and a digestive. It contains salicine, oxidase, tannis and resins which are all solutants. It's leaves contain flavones and if one boiles it with shampoo it gives shine to the hair. Those are considered the magic potions that this certain plant supplies.

Cortadera

English Name: White Plume
Spanish Name: Cortadera
Scientific Name: Cortadera Selloana

Aquatic Plant - Salvina Molesta

Common Names:
giant salvina
Kariba weed
African Pyle
aquarium water moss
Koi Kandy

Taxonomy: Family-Salviniaceae; Division-Polypodiophyta, true ferns.

Native Range: Southeastern Brazil; between latitudes of 24 and 32; more abundantly along costal Brazil; extending inland to elevations of 900m.

Habitat: Quiet waters of lakes and ponds, slow flowing streams and rivers, backwater swamps, marshes and rice fields.

Impact of Introduction

Growth factors paired with features promoting mobility make giant salvina on aggressive, competitive species that can impact aquatic environments and local economies.

• Salvina molesta was first reported as established outside of cultivation in the United States in 1995 at a pond in South Eastern, South Carolina.
• Giant Salvina has recently been distributed from nurseries in Texas, Louisiana, California, Hawaii, Arizona, Alabama.
• Where giant Salvina occurs in cultivation can serve as sources for introduction into new regions.

Mushrooms

Of all the five major kingdoms of living organisms on earth, the fungi certainly contain some of the most bizarre and fascinating species. Mycology is the study of fungi, and much of the current research in this field is at the molecular level.

There are about 100,000 known species of mushrooms, rusts, molds, mildews, stinkhorns, puffballs, truffles and other organisms assigned to the Kingdom Fungi, and hundreds of new species are described each year. They come in an astonishing variety of shapes, colors and sizes, from shinny red cups and orange jellylike masses to strange fungi resembling, bird nests with eggs, and starfish.

As decomposers, fungi are essential because, along with bacteria, they recycle important elements, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, back to the ecosystem. Although the beneficial effects of fungi far outweigh their negative aspects, there are some destructive and disease-causing species.