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  • Patrick Blanc looking at the cauliflorous Leonardoxa africana, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, Sept. 2023

    Patrick Blanc looking at the cauliflorous Leonardoxa africana, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, Sept. 2023

  • Leonardoxa africana, a small myrmecophilous forest understory tree with cauliflorous inflorescences, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Leonardoxa africana, a small myrmecophilous forest understory tree with cauliflorous inflorescences, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Leonardoxa africana, a small forest understory tree with cauliflorous inflorescences, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Leonardoxa africana, a small forest understory tree with cauliflorous inflorescences, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Leonardoxa africana, cauliflorous inflorescences with flower buds and flowers at anthesis, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Leonardoxa africana, cauliflorous inflorescences with flower buds and flowers at anthesis, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Leonardoxa africana, cauliflorous inflorescence, each flower with pink sepals and red petals, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Leonardoxa africana, cauliflorous inflorescence, each flower with pink sepals and red petals, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Leonardoxa africana, pink sepals and reddish petals, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Leonardoxa africana, pink sepals and reddish petals, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Leonardoxa africana, each flower with a long calyx tube, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Leonardoxa africana, each flower with a long calyx tube, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Leonardoxa africana, flower buds and one flower at anthesis, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Leonardoxa africana, flower buds and one flower at anthesis, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Leonardoxa africana, flowers with pink sepals, red petals and dark red long anther filaments, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Leonardoxa africana, flowers with pink sepals, red petals and dark red long anther filaments, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Leonardoxa africana, leaves and swollen stem internodes, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Leonardoxa africana, leaves and swollen stem internodes, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Leonardoxa africana, swollen distal part of each internode creating an empty cavity occupied by ants, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Leonardoxa africana, swollen distal part of each internode creating an empty cavity occupied by ants, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Thonningia sanguinea inflorescence emerging from the forest floor, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Thonningia sanguinea inflorescence emerging from the forest floor, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Thonningia sanguinea on forest floor, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Thonningia sanguinea on forest floor, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Thonningia sanguinea, central male inflorescence protected by the bright red pink bracts, the pollen partly released and covering the bracts, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Thonningia sanguinea, central male inflorescence protected by the bright red pink bracts, the pollen partly released and covering the bracts, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Thonningia sanguinea on forest floor, young emerging and old decaying male inflorescences, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Thonningia sanguinea on forest floor, young emerging and old decaying male inflorescences, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Helminthostachys zeylanica in forest understory, Sarramea, New Caledonia

    Helminthostachys zeylanica in forest understory, Sarramea, New Caledonia

  • Sporophore of Helminthostachys zeylanica, Sarramea, New Caledonia

    Sporophore of Helminthostachys zeylanica, Sarramea, New Caledonia

  • Helminthostachys zeylanica, fertile spike with mature sporangia, Sarramea, New Caledonia

    Helminthostachys zeylanica, fertile spike with mature sporangia, Sarramea, New Caledonia

  • Acrocarpus fraxinifolius in full bloom during the dry season, Coonoor, Nilgiris, India

    Acrocarpus fraxinifolius in full bloom during the dry season, Coonoor, Nilgiris, India

  • Loriculus vernalis, the small hanging parrot drinking the nectar of the flowers of Acrocarpus fraxinifolius, Coonoor, Nilgiris, India

    Loriculus vernalis, the small hanging parrot drinking the nectar of the flowers of Acrocarpus fraxinifolius, Coonoor, Nilgiris, India

  • Patrick Blanc at the base of an Alpinia nutans clump about 10 m tall, 800 m asl, Waraka, Seram, Moluccas, April 2024

    Patrick Blanc at the base of an Alpinia nutans clump about 10 m tall, 800 m asl, Waraka, Seram, Moluccas, April 2024

  • Patrick Blanc observing the pendulous inflorescence of Alpinia nutans, similar to many American Heliconia species, 500 m asl, Sepa, Seram, Moluccas, April 2024

    Patrick Blanc observing the pendulous inflorescence of Alpinia nutans, similar to many American Heliconia species, 500 m asl, Sepa, Seram, Moluccas, April 2024

  • Patrick Blanc and Pascal Heni filming Alpinia nutans in Seram, 600 m asl, Moluccas, April 2024

    Patrick Blanc and Pascal Heni filming Alpinia nutans in Seram, 600 m asl, Moluccas, April 2024

  • Patrick Blanc looking at the unusual dark red bullate bracts of the hanging inflorescence of Alpinia nutans, Seram, 600 m asl, Moluccas, April 2024

    Patrick Blanc looking at the unusual dark red bullate bracts of the hanging inflorescence of Alpinia nutans, Seram, 600 m asl, Moluccas, April 2024

  • Alpinia nutans, flowering stem, 500 m asl, Sepa, Seram, Moluccas

    Alpinia nutans, flowering stem, 500 m asl, Sepa, Seram, Moluccas

  • Alpinia nutans, young inflorescence with long green peduncular bract and fertile bracts still enclosing the contracted secondary inflorescences, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

    Alpinia nutans, young inflorescence with long green peduncular bract and fertile bracts still enclosing the contracted secondary inflorescences, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

  • Alpinia nutans, the hanging inflorescence similar to the pendulous American Heliconia species, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

    Alpinia nutans, the hanging inflorescence similar to the pendulous American Heliconia species, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

  • Alpinia nutans, bracts protecting the flowers at different stages along the inflorescence, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

    Alpinia nutans, bracts protecting the flowers at different stages along the inflorescence, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

  • Alpinia nutans, nodding inflorescence with red protecting bracts similar to the pendulous American Heliconia species, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

    Alpinia nutans, nodding inflorescence with red protecting bracts similar to the pendulous American Heliconia species, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

  • Alpinia nutans, large incurved protecting fertile bract, cincinni with bracteoles and flowers, Waraka, 600 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

    Alpinia nutans, large incurved protecting fertile bract, cincinni with bracteoles and flowers, Waraka, 600 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

  • 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

    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

  • Alpinia nutans, one previous day and one current day flowers at anthesis, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram Moluques

    Alpinia nutans, one previous day and one current day flowers at anthesis, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram Moluques

  • 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

    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

  • Alpinia nutans, protecting shell shaped floral bract and flower at anthesis, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

    Alpinia nutans, protecting shell shaped floral bract and flower at anthesis, Sepa, 500 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

  • Alpinia nutans, bract, dentate tubular calyx and corolla, Waraka, 600 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

    Alpinia nutans, bract, dentate tubular calyx and corolla, Waraka, 600 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

  • Alpinia nutans, withering corolla enclosed in calyx, Waraka, 600 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

    Alpinia nutans, withering corolla enclosed in calyx, Waraka, 600 m asl, Seram, Moluccas

  • Patrick Blanc in front of a clump of Alpinia nutans with many hanging infructescences, 800 m asl, Waraka, Seram, Moluccas, April 2024

    Patrick Blanc in front of a clump of Alpinia nutans with many hanging infructescences, 800 m asl, Waraka, Seram, Moluccas, April 2024

  • 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

    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

  • Alpinia nutans, hanging infructescences, 800 m asl, Waraka, Seram, Moluccas

    Alpinia nutans, hanging infructescences, 800 m asl, Waraka, Seram, Moluccas

  • Alpinia nutans, bright red fruits with persistent dry calyx at the top, 800 m asl, Waraka, Seram, Moluccas

    Alpinia nutans, bright red fruits with persistent dry calyx at the top, 800 m asl, Waraka, Seram, Moluccas

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