Cloud Forest of Tapichalaca Reserve

Debbi and I spent most of our four weeks at Tapichalaca Reserve in a cloud. A real cloud. This makes for a very lush forest. Epiphytes of all sorts–bromeliads, ferns, mosses, orchids, etc. cover the branches and trunks of many of the cloud forest trees.

 

Cloud Forest and road _F5A9495

The road to Peru on the landslide-cluttered flanks of Cerro Tapichalaca

Gunnera and forest in fog

Gunnera, a common roadside plant here, often with leaves well over a meter. AKA poor-man’s umbrella

Cloud Forest;  Ecuador, Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe, Tapichalaca Biological Reserve

Extensive forest of Tapichalaca Reserve – home of the Jocotoco

Tree Ferns _F5A1008

Treeferns in cloud forest

Cloud Forest Tree _F5A9490

Epiphyte laden tree

Guzmania Bromeliad _F5A9333

An epiphytic bromeliad, Guzmania

Temperate zone cloud forest _F5A1638

Plants growing on plants growing on plants along the trail.

Debbie Diego _F5A1012

Debbi and Diego on the trail

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