All the plant photographies are performed by Patrick Blanc and their use must go with the photo caption and the mention "copyright Patrick Blanc"
  • Alocasia balgooyi, adult individual in forest understory, Lembeh, North Sulawesi

    Alocasia balgooyi, adult individual in forest understory, Lembeh, North Sulawesi

  • Alocasia balgooyi, inflorescences, Lembeh, North Sulawesi

    Alocasia balgooyi, inflorescences, Lembeh, North Sulawesi

  • Alocasia balgooyi, young individual with long pendulous leaf blades and silvery white main nerves, Lembeh, North Sulawesi

    Alocasia balgooyi, young individual with long pendulous leaf blades and silvery white main nerves, Lembeh, North Sulawesi

  • Alocasia balgooyi, sub adult individual with pale but no longer silver main nerves, young plants at background with silver white veins, Lembeh, North Sulawesi

    Alocasia balgooyi, sub adult individual with pale but no longer silver main nerves, young plants at background with silver white veins, Lembeh, North Sulawesi

  • Chamaecostus curcumoides, flowering population at Nouragues CNRS field station, French Guyana

    Chamaecostus curcumoides, flowering population at Nouragues CNRS field station, French Guyana

  • Chamaecostus curcumoides, flowering population, les Nouragues CNRS field station, French Guyana, Photo by Patrick Blanc

    Chamaecostus curcumoides, flowering population, les Nouragues CNRS field station, French Guyana, Photo by Patrick Blanc

  • Chamaecostus curcumoides, black seeds with thread like arils, Nouragues CNRS field station, French Guyana

    Chamaecostus curcumoides, black seeds with thread like arils, Nouragues CNRS field station, French Guyana

  • Chamaecostus curcumoides, stoloniferous axes producing chain of axillary tiny buds, each with two swollen roots, Nouragues CNRS field station, French Guyana

    Chamaecostus curcumoides, stoloniferous axes producing chain of axillary tiny buds, each with two swollen roots, Nouragues CNRS field station, French Guyana

  • Plowmanianthus grandifolius, rosetted plant similar to African Palisota, Allpahuayo forest reserve, Iquitos, Peru

    Plowmanianthus grandifolius, rosetted plant similar to African Palisota, Allpahuayo forest reserve, Iquitos, Peru

  • Plowmanianthus grandifolius, bullate leaves of rosetted plant similar to African Palisota, Allpahuayo forest reserve, Iquitos, Peru

    Plowmanianthus grandifolius, bullate leaves of rosetted plant similar to African Palisota, Allpahuayo forest reserve, Iquitos, Peru

  • Plowmanianthus grandifolius, young individual, Allpahuayo forest reserve, Iquitos, Peru

    Plowmanianthus grandifolius, young individual, Allpahuayo forest reserve, Iquitos, Peru

  • Alocasia nicolsonii, purple leaf under surface, Tari, 2000 m asl, Hela, Papua New Guinea

    Alocasia nicolsonii, purple leaf under surface, Tari, 2000 m asl, Hela, Papua New Guinea

  • Alocasia nicolsonii, fruiting individual, Tari, 2000 m asl, Hela, Papua New Guinea

    Alocasia nicolsonii, fruiting individual, Tari, 2000 m asl, Hela, Papua New Guinea

  • Alocasia nicolsonii, bright red spatha base embracing the maturing fruits, Tari, 2000 m asl, Hela, Papua New Guinea

    Alocasia nicolsonii, bright red spatha base embracing the maturing fruits, Tari, 2000 m asl, Hela, Papua New Guinea

  • Alocasia cf wentii, Rondon ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

    Alocasia cf wentii, Rondon ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

  • Alocasia cf wentii, inflorescences and infructescences, Rondon ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

    Alocasia cf wentii, inflorescences and infructescences, Rondon ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

  • Alocasia cf wentii, White basal spatha enclosing maturing fruits and banana like open spatha exposing bright orange mature berries, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

    Alocasia cf wentii, White basal spatha enclosing maturing fruits and banana like open spatha exposing bright orange mature berries, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

  • Patrick Blanc observing the tiny Freycinetia elegantula climbing 10 m high along a tree trunk, Karawari, Sepik, Papua New Guinea, March 2016

    Patrick Blanc observing the tiny Freycinetia elegantula climbing 10 m high along a tree trunk, Karawari, Sepik, Papua New Guinea, March 2016

  • Patrick Blanc observing the tiny neotenic Freycinetia elegantula climbing along a tree trunk, Karawari, Sepik, Papua New Guinea, March 2016

    Patrick Blanc observing the tiny neotenic Freycinetia elegantula climbing along a tree trunk, Karawari, Sepik, Papua New Guinea, March 2016

  • Freycinetia elegantula, a neotenic species climbing along a tree trunk, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

    Freycinetia elegantula, a neotenic species climbing along a tree trunk, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

  • Freycinetia elegantula climbing along a tree trunk, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

    Freycinetia elegantula climbing along a tree trunk, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

  • Freycinetia elegantula with two cm long leaves, reaching more than ten meters along tree trunks and retaining these tiny sized leaves, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

    Freycinetia elegantula with two cm long leaves, reaching more than ten meters along tree trunks and retaining these tiny sized leaves, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

  • Freycinetia elegantula climbing on a mossy trunk, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

    Freycinetia elegantula climbing on a mossy trunk, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

  • Patrick Blanc observing the freely detached Freycinetia elegantula stems, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

    Patrick Blanc observing the freely detached Freycinetia elegantula stems, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

  • Freycinetia elegantula, hanging stem detached from tree trunk support, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

    Freycinetia elegantula, hanging stem detached from tree trunk support, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

  • Freycinetia elegantula, inflorescence scars and  relay shoot, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

    Freycinetia elegantula, inflorescence scars and relay shoot, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

  • Freycinetia elegantula, hanging stem with inflorescence scars, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

    Freycinetia elegantula, hanging stem with inflorescence scars, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

  • Freycinetia elegantula with inflorescence scars and one relay shoot, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

    Freycinetia elegantula with inflorescence scars and one relay shoot, Karawari, Sepik,Papua New Guinea

  • Freycinetia elegantula, inflorescence peduncle scars, Karawari, Sepik, Papua New Guinea

    Freycinetia elegantula, inflorescence peduncle scars, Karawari, Sepik, Papua New Guinea

  • Riedelia cf geluensis installed in soil, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

    Riedelia cf geluensis installed in soil, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

  • Riedelia cf geluensis clump, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

    Riedelia cf geluensis clump, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

  • Riedelia cf geluensis, flowers and fruits, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

    Riedelia cf geluensis, flowers and fruits, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

  • Riedelia cf geluensis, flowers and developing fruits, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

    Riedelia cf geluensis, flowers and developing fruits, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

  • Riedelia cf geluensis, flowers, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

    Riedelia cf geluensis, flowers, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

  • Riedelia cf geluensis, two huge basket epiphytes collecting humus, 2000 m asl, Tari, Hela, Papua New Guinea

    Riedelia cf geluensis, two huge basket epiphytes collecting humus, 2000 m asl, Tari, Hela, Papua New Guinea

  • Riedelia cf geluensis, basket epiphyte, many simultaneously alive oblique stems collecting humus, 2000 m asl, Tari, Hela, Papua New Guinea

    Riedelia cf geluensis, basket epiphyte, many simultaneously alive oblique stems collecting humus, 2000 m asl, Tari, Hela, Papua New Guinea

  • Riedelia cf microbotrya, vegetative population in mossy habitat,Tari, 2800 m asl, Papua New Guinea

    Riedelia cf microbotrya, vegetative population in mossy habitat,Tari, 2800 m asl, Papua New Guinea

  • Riedelia cf microbotrya in its mossy habitat,Tari, 2800 m asl, Papua New Guinea

    Riedelia cf microbotrya in its mossy habitat,Tari, 2800 m asl, Papua New Guinea

  • Riedelia cf microbotrya, flowers very similar in shape, size and colour to the Orchid Dendrobium caliculimentum from the same area,Tari, 2800 m asl, Papua new Guinea

    Riedelia cf microbotrya, flowers very similar in shape, size and colour to the Orchid Dendrobium caliculimentum from the same area,Tari, 2800 m asl, Papua new Guinea

  • Riedelia cf suborbicularis in forest understory habitat, Rondon Ridge, 2200 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

    Riedelia cf suborbicularis in forest understory habitat, Rondon Ridge, 2200 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

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