Orchid Habitat Loss

Naranjilla  

The species is endemic to Ecuador. Naranjilla is most abundant in Peru, Ecuador and southern Colombia. Its range extends to the rest of Colombia and in the central and northern Andes of Venezuela and interior mountain ranges of Costa Rica.  In Ecuador, 90% of commercial naranjilla cultivation is in a 15-mile area in the valley and adjacent hillsides of the Pastaza River, a tributary of the Amazon.

  
   
photo by Knut Eisermann (www.cayaya-birding.com)



The photo naranjilla growing half-wild in a developing secondary forest near a quetchua village near Tena where they don't really do systematic
farming of naranjilla.  photo by Nikolaus Nestle


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