Indian paintbrush (Castilleja arvensis)
The color of the infloresence is incredibly attractive – to me and insects alike. The red leaves are nothing more than indicators or flags – the real flower is inconspicuous This is the flower.
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Bomarea hieronymii
Bomarea is unmistakeble and eyecatching. In a gloomy forest of green, the hanging infloresence is one of few wonders of blossom accessible to us humans – as most is high in the canopy. This is at around 2300 m elevation.
Yanacocha plant 04 (Bomarea sp)
This wonderful flower grows commonly along the main path in Yanacocha. This family is also found in almost every florist across the world.
Bonnet Orchid (Pleurothallis sp)
I found 2 groups of two species of Pleurothallis. The other one had an even darker brown color, but unfortunately I did not photograph it. Both are located at the beginning of the main trail/road.
Yanacocha plant 05 (Senecio sp?)
Older flowers reddens and bend downwards.
Yanacocha plant 03 (Gesneriaceae ?)
A large and conspicuous flower on a rather hostile plant! It’s tempting to touch the large flower, but doing so will most likely result in a painful sting like a nettle. The plant is full of large stinging hairs. Enjoy at a distance or with gloves! Please help me classify it – leave a comment
Yanacocha plant 06 (Bartsia sp)
Many flowers protect themselves from the cold nights at these altitudes (this is at 3500 m elevation) and appears furry and soft.
Yanacocha flower 01 (Rubus sp)
This is a small raspberry-like plant at 3500 meter elevation in the Yanacocha reserve just northwest of Quito.
Tree oxalis (Oxalis peduncularis)
Grows widespread along the path in the park.
Yanacocha flower 02 (Geranium sp)
In Yanacocha and elsewhere on this high elevation (3564 m) there are several species of Geranium – most are small like this one.
Palicourea sp
A common shrub on the savanna. I saw several on the way to Roraima tepui, and on the way to Angel falls, where this photo was taken. This is the only portion of the boat journey to Angel falls where we had to leave the canoes behind, as the long section of rapids in the [...]
Tibouchina sp
The boat journey to Angel Falls was interrupted only once by a long section of rapids where we had to disembark and walk for about 20 minutes on the open savanna. This flowering shrub was located along this path. Please help me classify it – leave a comment
Tibouchina sp
The boat journey to Angel Falls was interrupted only once by a long section of rapids where we had to disembark and walk for about 20 minutes on the open savanna. This flowering shrub was located along this path. Please help me classify it – leave a comment
Chamaecrista desvauxii
The boat journey to Angel Falls was interrupted only once by a long section of rapids. Here we had to disembark and walk for about 20 minutes on the open savanna. This flowering shrub was located along this path.
Merremia sp
On the boat journey to Angel Falls, there was only one section where we had to disembark and walk for about 20 minutes on the open savanna. This flower was located along this path. Please help me classify it – leave a comment
Angel Falls flower 002
These flowers grow on a tree on the the last remaning soil before two rivers meet – the Kerep river (fed from Angel Falls) and Chrurun river (a tributary of the Carrao River). . Please help me classify it – leave a comment r
Espicia sp
This plant grows in the moist and dark forest floor below the Angel Falls. Please help me classify it – leave a comment
Cheiradenia cuspidata
The forest below Angel Falls is dense, moist and dark and this was the only orchid of this species I found in bloom.
Passiflora auriculata
I was surprised to see a Passion flower on the savanna, as out in the open there is nothing to climb on for one. I only found this one – about a kilometre downhill from the base camp to Roraima in a dry and rocky location.
Monnina cacumina (?)
This bush grows in the montane forest close to the Roraima walls. Please help me classify it – leave a comment
Gesneriaceae ?
This plant reminds me of a cucumber or melon, but I found none with fruit. It grows in the montane forest by the Roraima wall. Please help me classify it – leave a comment
Drimys winteri
Grows in the montane forest close to the wall of Roraima. This is the natural position of the flower – hanging face down from a very long stem.
Symbolanthus elisabethae
A large flower that is like a beakon of color in the greens of the montane forest, right next to the Roraima wall. It’s pollinated by birds.
Celiantha imthurniana
This plant grows close to the plateu of Roraima in the montane forest. It was raining on my way up, so photography was not an option, but I was in luck on my way down. I don’t recall seeing it on the top of Roraima, but I believe it’s also present there.
Ericaceae
One of many species of shrub on Roraima. Please help me classify it – leave a comment
Epidendrum sp
One of just a few of this particular species in bloom. Please help me identify it – leave a comment
Epidendrum violascens
This was one of very few I found in bloom. If I only had more time on Roraima I would have been able to look for and absorb much more of the wonderful richness, in the otherwise poor place nutrient-wise. With only 1,5 days on top, and just 12 hours of daylight I was able [...]
Roraima heather (Ledothamnus guyanensis)
An endemic plant. I only found a couple with one flower each on my 2 day stay on Roraima. The flower is huge compared to the European heather, which instead has a large number of small flowers. This specimen was able to cling to life in a crack in the sandstone and seemed to have [...]
Roraima Sundew (Drosera roraimae)
The otherwise leathal (to insects) sundew has a different need every now and then – pollination and propagation! What to do? As it is unable to turn off its traps, it simply produces a tall stem with tantalizing flowers…. Unfortunatley I don’t find this particularly convincing, as the flower for some reason is allways pointing [...]
Roraima flower 015
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Stegolepis guianensis
Endemic to Roraima and to me a peculiar plant as it is one of the few plants I recall having such a flat growth! Looking at it from the side, a perfect specimen could be just a line – that is how flat it is! Only the flower buds break this flatness. To add to [...]
Ericaceae
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Roraima heather (Ledothamnus sessiliflorus)
This was the only one I found of the sessiflorus. It’s endemic. It grew underneath an outcrop, and in contrast to the guyanensis it was a big and dense specimen competing with other plants. This one very much resembles the guyanensis, but the flower differs with a lighter/paler red ring around the base of the [...]
Roraima flower 012
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Rogersonanthus quelchii
I didn’t find many of this shrub in bloom – either the flowers were messed up by insects and birds, or simply past blooming. Here you can see how a bird has opened up the flower to steal nectar, as it doesn’t want or know how to get it through the “front door”. How this [...]
Eriocaulaceae
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Psychotria concinna Oliv.
I only found a handfull of this small shrub in bloom. I assume it’s endemic. The leaves remind me of the European Cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea).
Bladderwort (Utricularia sp)
I thought this belonged to the carnivorous sundews (Drosera roraimae), but none of these flowers sprung up from any visible host! I did find it among sundews, but the flower stem had allways sprung up from the wet soil. I also found that the flowers of the sundews of Roraima opened up hanging face down [...]
Epidendrum secundum
A common and colorful orchid on Roraima.
Xyris sp
Common on Roraima. Please help me classify it – leave a comment
Roraima flower 005
Yet another hardy plant that finds enough nutrients in a sandstone crack to produce flowers. Please help me classify it – leave a comment
Tillandsia turneri
An endemic epiphyte that can be seen in large numbers on tree branches, but also on the ground like this one.
Stenopadus sp.
A small shrub and one of the more unusual flowers on the Roraima tepui. It makes me think of some of the flowers on the table mountains of South Africa. Perhaps it has a genetic commonality with South African table mountain shrubs? Geologically South Africa and the table mountains, and South America and the tepuis, [...]
Pitcher plant (Heliamphora nutans)
This deadly plant has to reproduce and need the help from what it usually hunts – insects! I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the pollinators end up in the trap after they have given their service – or at any other time for that matter! It’s only found here on Roraima and surrounding tepuis [...]
Orectanthe sceptrum
A most peculiar flower that both look and feel like plastic! In any case, flowering and producing fruit in particular is the very last of the plant, as it dies producing it – just like pinapple.
Octomeria sp
This was only flowering specimen I could find, and it was growing in a very inaccessible location high on a boulder on the edge of Roraima facing Kukenan in the place called “Kukenan Window”. This is the second species of flower on this extremely hard to get to location. Please help me classify it – [...]
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