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Patrick Blanc looking at the cauliflorous Leonardoxa africana, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, Sept. 2023
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Leonardoxa africana, a small myrmecophilous forest understory tree with cauliflorous inflorescences, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Leonardoxa africana, a small forest understory tree with cauliflorous inflorescences, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Leonardoxa africana, cauliflorous inflorescences with flower buds and flowers at anthesis, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Leonardoxa africana, cauliflorous inflorescence, each flower with pink sepals and red petals, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Leonardoxa africana, pink sepals and reddish petals, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Leonardoxa africana, each flower with a long calyx tube, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Leonardoxa africana, flower buds and one flower at anthesis, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Leonardoxa africana, flowers with pink sepals, red petals and dark red long anther filaments, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Leonardoxa africana, leaves and swollen stem internodes, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Leonardoxa africana, swollen distal part of each internode creating an empty cavity occupied by ants, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Thonningia sanguinea inflorescence emerging from the forest floor, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Thonningia sanguinea on forest floor, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Thonningia sanguinea, central male inflorescence protected by the bright red pink bracts, the pollen partly released and covering the bracts, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Thonningia sanguinea on forest floor, young emerging and old decaying male inflorescences, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Helminthostachys zeylanica in forest understory, Sarramea, New Caledonia
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Sporophore of Helminthostachys zeylanica, Sarramea, New Caledonia
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Helminthostachys zeylanica, fertile spike with mature sporangia, Sarramea, New Caledonia
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Acrocarpus fraxinifolius in full bloom during the dry season, Coonoor, Nilgiris, India
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Loriculus vernalis, the small hanging parrot drinking the nectar of the flowers of Acrocarpus fraxinifolius, Coonoor, Nilgiris, India
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Patrick Blanc at the base of an Alpinia nutans clump about 10 m tall, 800 m asl, Waraka, Seram, Moluccas, April 2024
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Patrick Blanc observing the pendulous inflorescence of Alpinia nutans, similar to many American Heliconia species, 500 m asl, Sepa, Seram, Moluccas, April 2024
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Patrick Blanc and Pascal Heni filming Alpinia nutans in Seram, 600 m asl, Moluccas, April 2024
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Patrick Blanc looking at the unusual dark red bullate bracts of the hanging inflorescence of Alpinia nutans, Seram, 600 m asl, Moluccas, April 2024
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Alpinia nutans, flowering stem, 500 m asl, Sepa, Seram, Moluccas
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Alpinia nutans, young inflorescence with long green peduncular bract and fertile bracts still enclosing the contracted secondary inflorescences, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas
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Alpinia nutans, the hanging inflorescence similar to the pendulous American Heliconia species, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas
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Alpinia nutans, bracts protecting the flowers at different stages along the inflorescence, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas
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Alpinia nutans, nodding inflorescence with red protecting bracts similar to the pendulous American Heliconia species, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas
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Alpinia nutans, large incurved protecting fertile bract, cincinni with bracteoles and flowers, Waraka, 600 m asl, Seram, Moluccas
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Alpinia nutans, fertile bullate bract, hooded involucral bracteoles and flower with three dentate calyx and corolla still at bud stage of each cincinnus, Waraka, 600 m asl, Seram, Moluccas
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Alpinia nutans, one previous day and one current day flowers at anthesis, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram Moluques
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Alpinia nutans, functionnally resupinate flower with the hooded dorsal lobe of the corolla downward oriented due to the hanging inflorescence, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas
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Alpinia nutans, protecting shell shaped floral bract and flower at anthesis, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas
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Alpinia nutans, bract, dentate tubular calyx and corolla, Waraka, 600 m asl, Seram, Moluccas
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Alpinia nutans, withering corolla enclosed in calyx, Waraka, 600 m asl, Seram, Moluccas
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Patrick Blanc in front of a clump of Alpinia nutans with many hanging infructescences, 800 m asl, Waraka, Seram, Moluccas, April 2024
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Patrick Blanc holding the 8 m tall leafy stems of Alpinia nutans with hanging mature infructescences of bright red berries, Seram, 800 m asl, Moluccas, April 2024
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Alpinia nutans, hanging infructescences, 800 m asl, Waraka, Seram, Moluccas
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Alpinia nutans, bright red fruits with persistent dry calyx at the top, 800 m asl, Waraka, Seram, Moluccas