plants [foto]

plants [foto]

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Red orange flowers

(Costa Rica)

White flower
White flower

(Brazil)


Orange and yellow heliconia

(Costa Rica)


Heliconia



Lily

(Costa Rica)


Costa Rican rainforest in the late afternoon

(Costa Rica)


Red bird of paradise flower



Red ginger

(Suriname)


White Victoria amazonica flower


Red passion vine flower



Mexican rainforest vegetation



Strangler fig

(Costa Rica)


Heliconia



Yellow heliconia

(Costa Rica)

Red passion vine flower
Red passion vine flower

(Costa Rica)


Flowering bromeliad

(Costa Rica)


Amazon water lilies in Colombia


Oxbow lake filled with Amazon water lilies in Colombia

Epiphyte-laden kapok tree
Epiphyte-laden kapok tree

(Guatemala)

Gumbo limbo
Gumbo limbo "Tourist trees" used for treating rashes and sunburn

(Belize)


Orange; yellow; and white flower

(Costa Rica)

Red ginger
Red ginger

(Belize)

Ginger plant
Ginger plant

(Costa Rica)


Red heliconia

(Costa Rica)


Red Heliconia with yellow and white blossoms


Honeycomb-shaped flower

Golden flowers
Golden flowers

(Brazil)


Bromeliad

(Costa Rica)

Red hibiscus
Red hibiscus

(Costa Rica)

Light orange heliconia
Light orange heliconia

(Belize)


Pink bananas

Pink flower
Pink flower

(Belize)


New Victoria amazonica leaf


Amazonian Bird of Paradise



Red and yellow heliconia

(Costa Rica)


Banana flowers and red banana fruit

(Costa Rica)


Bird of Paradise in the Amazon



Rainforest plant



Green and purple orchid


Leaf in the rainforest of Costa Rica

(Costa Rica)

Corteza Amarilla (Tabebuia ochracea)
Corteza Amarilla (Tabebuia ochracea)

(Costa Rica)


Pink bromeliad flower


Heliconia leaf


Red bromeliad flower


Red ginger flower



Emergent tree rising above the Amazon rainforest canopy


Pink bromeliad flower


Magenta stalk with green fruit

(Costa Rica)

Flowering bromeliad
Flowering bromeliad

(Costa Rica)

Bromeliad
Bromeliad

(Costa Rica)


Thorns on the trunk of the Pejibaye (peach palm), a rainforest tree. Fruits of this palm are boiled, pealed and eaten with mayonnaise.

(Costa Rica)


Leaf in the Costa Rican jungle

(Costa Rica)



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