Plantas de la selva: Vol. 7
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under ecuador
ID?
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Plantas de la selva: Vol. 6
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Sunlit
Vivid colors, translucent leaves; one of my favorite jungle photos.
Tags: arutam, ecuador, en la selva, environment, oriente, photography, plants
Orchids of the Oriente
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under ecuador
Succulent
Wild orchids are in abundance here. They’re beautiful and diverse and even odd. Here are couple of the most common, and also most accessible. Many also grow far higher up the canopy. Of course, as beautiful as they are, more than a few have been felled by a volunteer’s machete. We’re conserving crucial parts of the forest and working in subsistence agriculture for a poor community, which sometimes takes precedence over pretty flowers.
Hairy
Tags: arutam, ecuador, en la selva, environment, flowers, orchid, oriente, photography, plants, volunteering
Plantas de la selva: Vol. 5
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Blue and yellow
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Plantas de la selva: Vol. 4
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Delicate
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Jungle fruit provides chocolate surprise
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Tasty
Cacao fruit harvested and eaten fresh in the jungle. Fantastic, fantastic end to a sweaty morning of machete work on a jungle trail.
The gooey part tastes like chocolate and we simply spit out the seeds. Below, you can see Sebastian, one of our Shuar guides, who climbed a tree to pluck a few for us. Continue reading this entry » » »
Tags: arutam, cacao, chocolate, ecuador, en la selva, food, oriente, photography, plants, shuar, volunteering
Plantas de la selva: Vol. 2
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under ecuador
Almost waxen
Our series of interesting and/or weird plants continues. Any botanist out there can feel free to identify.
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