






Utter aloneness on the sandy beach of Araminda.Soledad absoluta en la arenosa playa de Araminda.
Digital shots of the wild inhabitants and places of my homeland / Fotos digitales de los habitantes salvajes y sus hábitats en mi tierra







Urbanus doryssus
Vidius perigenes?
Emesis tenedia
Aethilla echina coracina
Urbanus teleus
Mylon menippus



Native to Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina, this evergreen subshrub is usually treated as an annual. It is grown for its curiosity value - the pinnate, fern-like leaves close up and droop when touched, usually re-opening within minutes. It has prickly stems and small, fluffy, ball shaped pink flowers in summer. It grows to a height of 1,5 m and spreads around 9 m, its stem being erect, slender and branching. This species is adaptable to most soils in an open, sunny position, and is drought and frost tender. Due to its ability to fix nitrogen from the air it does well on poor soils. Extracts of the plant have been shown in scientific trials to be a moderate diuretic, depress duodenal contractions similar to atropine sulphone, promote regeneration of nerves, and reduce menorrhagia.







The genus Opuntia (etymologically its name derives from the ancient Greek city of Opus) is made up of about 300 species distributed throughout most of the Americas. They typically grow with flat, rounded cladophylls - photosynthetic portions of a stem that resemble and function as a leaf - that are armed with two kinds of spines; a distinctive feature of all opuntias. There are large, smooth, fixed spines and small, hairlike spines (glochids) which easily penetrate skin and detach from the plant. Fruits are elongated, pear-shaped, and edible in some species. Many types of opuntias grow into dense, tangled structures.