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Patrick Blanc climbing on a vertical rock face to observe a population of Loxocarpus incanus, Penang Hill, Malaysia, Aug. 1984
      
  
     
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Patrick Blanc observing a population of Loxocarpus incanus on a vertical mossy rock face just 41 years after his first observation in 1984 in the same area, Penang Hill, Malaysia, Sept. 2025
      
  
     
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Loxocarpus incanus covering the bare rock faces of big boulders in a rocky chaos in forest understory, Penang Hill, Malaysia.
      
  
     
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Loxocarpus incanus, dense population on bare rocks, Penang Hill, Malaysia.
      
  
     
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Loxocarpus incanus mixed with Begonia sinuata and a Rhaphidophora, Penang Hill, Malaysia.
      
  
     
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Loxocarpus incanus on bare rocks, population exhibiting a perfect regeneration since there are individuals at all stages from seedlings to adult flowering plants, Penang Hill, Malaysia.
      
  
     
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Loxocarpus incanus and the green iridescent Begonia sinuata, Penang Hill, Malaysia.
      
  
     
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Loxocarpus incanus with a dense population of the tiny Argostemma pictum and some young Begonia sinuata, Penang Hill, Malaysia.
      
  
     
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Loxocarpus incanus, flowering individuals mixed with some Begonia sinuata, Penang Hill, Malaysia.
      
  
     
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Loxocarpus incanus, dense appressed hairs giving the ash grey colour to the leaves, Penang Hill, Malaysia.
      
  
     
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Loxocarpus incanus, very long appressed hairs giving a silky reflective appearence, this dense tomentum being a protection against dehydratation for these plants growing on vertical bare rocks, Penang Hill, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Loxocarpus incanus, inflorescence, Penang Hill, Malaysia.
      
  
     
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Loxocarpus incanus, flowers with glandular hairy calyx and peduncle and purple corolla, Penang Hill, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Loxocarpus incanus, after corolla withering, the flower peduncle turns upward and the fruit will become a horizontally circular dehiscent rain splash capsule, Penang Hill, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Loxocarpus incanus, mature erect rain splash capsules exposing the tiny seeds, Penang Hill, Malaysia, from P. Blanc Etre Plante à l'ombre des forêts tropicales, Nathan, 2002
      
  
     
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Loxocarpus incanus, adult flowering individuals and seedlings on bare vertical rock surface mixed with some Argostemma pictum, Penang Hill, Malaysia.
      
  
     
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Patrick Blanc and a population of Ramonda myconi on vertical mossy shale rock faces, Pyrenees at 1200 m asl, Andorra, July 2025 
      
  
     
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Ramonda myconi, dense population on shale layered rock substratum, Andorra
      
  
     
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Ramonda myconi, population on mossy shale rock face, Andorra
      
  
     
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Ramonda myconi, population on vertical shale rock, Andorra
      
  
     
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Ramonda myconi on vertical shale rocky face, Andorra
      
  
     
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Ramonda myconi and Asplenium fontanum on a mossy shale rock substratum,  Andorra
      
  
     
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Ramonda myconi, the faintly straightened upper leaves of the rosette are fixing some plant fragments falling from canopy thus creating some basal humus, Andorra
      
  
     
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Ramonda myconi, an individual exhibiting its global shape in rosetted disc appressed to the vertical shale rocky substratum, Andorra
      
  
     
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Ramonda myconi, bullate leaf structure, this three dimensional pattern increasing the photosynthetic leaf surface in this low light situation, Andorra
      
  
     
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Patrick Blanc observing an individual of Ramonda myconi with maturing capsular fruits, Pyrenees, Andorra, July 2025
      
  
     
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Ramonda myconi, a plant with ripening capsular fruits, Andorra
      
  
     
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Ramonda myconi, ripening capsular fruit, Andorra
      
  
     
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Patrick Blanc showing the tiny seeds emerging from the bivalved capsule of Ramonda myconi, Pyrenees, Andorra, July 2025
      
  
     
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Ridleyandra cf. porphyrantha, flowering population on vertical rocky earth bank with numerous seedlings in the lower part, Kenyir Lake, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Ridleyandra cf. porphyrantha, flowering population on vertical rocky earth bank, Kenyir Lake, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Ridleyandra cf. porphyrantha, adult flowering individuals on vertical bare rock surface, Kenyir Lake, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Ridleyandra cf. porphyrantha, inflorescence, Kenyir Lake, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Ridleyandra cf. porphyrantha, flower close-up, Kenyir lake, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Ridleyandra cf. porphyrantha, dark purple almost black short lobes of the corolla and pale purple guide streaks in the tube, Kenyir Lake, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Ridleyandra cf. porphyrantha, dark purple velvety mouth of corolla and light purple guide lines in the throat, Kenyir Lake, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Ridleyandra cf. porphyrantha, adult plants with the root system superficially covering the vertical bare rock, Kenyir Lake, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Ridleyandra cf. porphyrantha, roots covering the bare rock surface, Kenyir Lake, Malaysia
      
  
     
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Ridleyandra cf. porphyrantha, seedlings and young plants at all stages on vertical earth rocky bank thus expressing a perfect regeneration, Kenyir Lake, Malaysia