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Bamboo shoot

Fully grown this species is immensely long and slender, and looked like enormous fishing rods.

Yanacocha plant 04 (Bomarea sp)

It not only resembles a lily, but is a lily. It’s a strong and vital plant, no wonder it’s popular as a cut flower.

Bonnet Orchid (Pleurothallis sp)

Bonnet orchids are unusual in that the flower seems to grow straight out of the leaf.

Yanacocha plant 03 (Gesneriaceae ?)

The stinging hairs are not easily seen on the face of the leaf, but they are there! It’s the dark ones. On the underside and the stem the really large ones are clearly visible on the new unfolding leaves. Please help me classify it – leave a comment

Yanacocha plant 07 (Gesneriaceae ?)

Yanacocha plant 06 (Bartsia sp)

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)

The long hairs collect the moisture from the clouds softly passing over them and slowly accumulates into a large drop seen here.

Yanacocha flower 02 (Geranium sp)

Unmistakebly Geranium. This plant is small here at 3564 m elevation – less than 10 cm.

Roraima Sundew (Drosera roraimae)

Unique to the Roraima tepui and is widespread and common here. It resembles the ones growing in European bogs, but has evolved independently. Again nature comes up with the same solution to the same problem despite insurmountable divides. Roraima has little to no nutrients as there is hardly any soil, and the little nutrients that [...]

Pitcher plant (Heliamphora nutans)

This plant is endemic to Roraima and it’s leaves are formed as cannisters and hold rainwater. When insects fall into the water they are unable to climb back up as the inside is covered with hair pointing downwards. This ensures the insect is kept inside so that the plant’s enzymes can dissolve the nutrients and [...]

Orectanthe sceptrum

One of the most common plant species on Roraima. It reminds of pinapple, and like pinapple it dies after blooming and setting fruit. I wonder how it’s able to survive submerged like this. All three plants seem to have no problem being in the middle of a pool of water many months per year. Just [...]

Giant fern (Angiopteris evecta)

In the interior and higher elevations of Moorea this huge fern is common in the forest. Looking towards the sunlight from under the fronds is a different perspective than most people see this and most other plants in the forest. The dark border on the leaves are the sporecapsules.

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