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Astelia montana, young still not basally branched individual with thebasal sheaths of the rosetted leaves accumulating water and plant debris like a tank Bromeliad, Des Voeux Peak, Taveuni, Fiji.
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Astelia neocaledonica, epiphytic clumps on trunk and main branches of an emergent forest tree, Mount Aoupinie, New Caledonia
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Astelia neocaledonica, tufted epiphytes along trunk and main branches of an emergent forest tree with the strangling Fagraea berteroana in the middle of the crown, Mount Aoupinie, New Caledonia
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Astelia neocaledonica, epiphytic clumps persisting on the branches of a dead tree thanks to water and humus accumulation in the funnel shaped rosettes, Mount Aoupinie, New Caledonia
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Astelia neocaledonica, epiphytic clumps, Mount Aoupinie, New Caledonia
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Astelia neocaledonica, epiphytic clumps on dead tree, Mount Aoupinie, New Caledonia
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Astelia neocaledonica, epiphytic living clump on dead tree thanks to water and humus accumulation in the funnel shaped rosettes, Mount Aoupinie, New Caledonia
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Astelia neocaledonica, two much basally branched epiphytic clumps, Mount Aoupinie, New Caledonia
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Astelia neocaledonica, a huge much branched clump accumulating a heavy load of humus, Mount Aoupinie, New Caledonia
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Astelia neocaledonica, imbricate sheathing leaf bases accumulating water and humus and oblique growth of the stems at the origin of the expanding clump, Mount Aoupinie, New Caledonia
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Astelia neocaledonica, oblique growth of the stems thickened due to the persistant dead leaf bases thus creating huge amounts of humus, Mount Aoupinie, New Caledonia
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Angraecum sesquipedale as an epiphyte installed at the zone of insertion of the main branches on the tree trunk, Ankanin'ny Nofy, Madagascar.
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Angraecum sesquipedale, epiphytic on a tree of the forest on white sands close to lake Ampitabe, Ankanin'ny Nofy, Madagascar
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Angraecum sesquipedale, epiphytic on tree close to lake shore, Ankanin'ny Nofy, Madagascar.
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Angraecum sesquipedale epiphytic on a tree of the forest on white sands close to lake Ampitabe, Ankanin'ny Nofy, Madagascar
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Angraecum sesquipedale, an epiphytic branched individual fiwed to the tree trunk by adventitious roots, Ankanin'ny Nofy, Madagascar.
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Angraecum sesquipedale, flower at anthesis and old flowers with brown long hanging spur at top of maturing fruits, Ankanin'ny Nofy, Madagascar
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Angraecum sesquipedale flowering on its host tree trunk, Ankanin'ny Nofy, Madagascar.
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Angraecum sesquipedale epiphytic in habitat, flowers and maturing fruits, Ankanin'ny Nofy, Madagascar
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Angraecum sesquipedale, flower front view, Ankanin'ny Nofy, Madagascar.
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Angraecum sesquipedale, flower lateral view, Ankanin'ny Nofy, Madagascar.
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Angraecum eburneum, leaves and inflorescence, Ankanin'ny Nofy, Madagascar
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Angraecum eburneum, epiphyte at the base of a tree trunk, Ankanin'ny Nofy, Madagascar
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Angraecum eburneum, inflorescence, Ankanin'ny Nofy, Madagascar
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Angraecum eburneum flowering as an epiphyte, Ankanin'ny Nofy, Madagascar
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Robiquetia brevifolia, epiphytic on a mossy dead log, Horton Plains NP, Sri Lanka
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Robiquetia brevifolia, Horton Plains NP, Sri Lanka
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Robiquetia brevifolia, flowers, Horton Plains NP, Sri Lanka
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Robiquetia virescens epiphytic in mossy forest understory, Maskeliya, Sri Lanka
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Robiquetia virescens, the roots growing horizontally in the direction of the darkest areas thus reaching branches for fixation, Maskeliya, Sri Lanka
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Patrick Blanc showing the roots of Robiquetia virescens covered by a bright white velamen, Maskeliya, Sri Lanka, Nov. 2024
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Robiquetia virescens, leafy stem with two hanging inflorescences, Maskeliya, Sri Lanka
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Oberonia wightiana, flowering as a small epiphyte in habitat, Horton Plains, NP, Sri Lanka
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Oberonia wightiana, small equitant leaves and reclining inflorescence, Horton Plains, NP, Sri Lanka
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Oberonia wightiana, nodding inflorescences, Horton Plains, NP, Sri Lanka
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Patrick Blanc looking at flowers and fruits of Medinilla fuchsioides, Horton Plains, Sri Lanka, Nov. 2024
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Medinilla fuchsioides, epiphytic on mossy tree trunk at 2200 m asl, Horton Plains, Sri Lanka
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Medinilla fuchsioides as a low epiphyte, Horton Plains, Sri Lanka
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Medinilla fuchsioides epiphytic on a mossy tree trunk, Horton Plains, Sri Lanka
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Medinilla fuchsioides as a cauliflorous epiphyte, Horton Plains, Sri Lanka