Patrick Blanc and Eric Ngansop observing the maturing infructescence of Ampelopsis africana, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, Sept. 2023
Patrick Blanc and Marc Jeanson observing the maturing infructescences of Ampelopsis africana, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, Sept. 2023
Patrick Blanc holding a Cercestis camerunensis detached from its support tree trunk, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, Sept. 2023
Patrick Blanc observing and holding the freely hanging shiny black barbed root of the new Cercestis species, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, Sept. 2023
Patrick Blanc showing a narrow freely hanging barbed shiny black feeding root of the new Cercestis species, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, Sept. 2023
Patrick Blanc showing the narrow freely hanging barbed shiny black root of the new Cercestis species, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, Sept. 2023
Patrick Blanc kneeling on the forest floor to observe the freely hanging barbed shiny black root of thr new Cercestis species once it reaches the soil, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, Sept. 2023
Patrick Blanc holding a specimen of the new Cercestis species that he discovered in 1991 in the same forest at Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, Sept. 2023
Patrick Blanc holding the 7 m long freely hanging barbed black shiny root of the new Cercestis species, Campo, Cameroon, Sept. 2023
Patrick Blanc holding the coiled 7 m long freely hanging barbed black shiny root of the new Cercestis species, Campo, Cameroon, Sept. 2023