Cloud Forest Flowers

Jocotoco Conservation Foundation‘s Tapichalaca Reserve in southern Ecuador, with its overwhelming diversity of epiphytes, supports a beautiful assortment of flowering plants. The flowers in this cloud forest feed the diverse hummingbirds and other nectivores (see future post).

Psammia flower _F5A1304

Psammisia sp., Ericaceae

Passionflower _F5A0981

Passionflower, Passiflora cumbalensis

Orchid; Masdevallia; Ecuador, Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe, Tapichalaca Reserve

Orchid, Masdevallia sp.

Ecuador, Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe, Tapichalaca Biological Reserve

Orchid

Lily; Ecuador, Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe, Tapichalaca Biological Reserve

Lily

Kohleria affinis flower _F5A9324

Kohleria affinis, Gessneriaceae

Ecuador, Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe, Tapichalaca Biological Reserve

Bromeliad, Guzmania sp.

Ferns with red pigment; Ecuador, Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe

Fern, (ok, not a flowering plant)

Cavendishia nobilis Flower _F5A1249

Cavendishia nobilis, Ericaceae

_F5A1643

?? You tell me

Ecuador, Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe, Tapichalaca Biological Reserve

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