Edwin Giesbers / Ancient Laurel forest / Laurisilva with epiphytic ferns on trees UNESCO World Heritage Site, Maderia.
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Lucas Bustamante / Choco Toucan (Ramphastos brevis) on a tree with epiphytes, Mashpi, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Tim Laman / Epiphytic orchid (Bulbophyllum medusae) growing in the canopy of the lowland rainforest, Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
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Tim Laman / Giant orchid (Grammatophyllum speciosum) growing high in the rainforest canopy in Borneo. This species is the world's largest orchid, with flowering stalks reaching 3 m long. Gunung Palung National Pa...
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Tim Laman / Botanist amongst the flowers of a Giant orchid (Grammatophyllum speciosum) growing high in the rainforest canopy in Borneo. This species is the world's largest orchid, with flowering stalks reaching 3...
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Tim Laman / Giant orchid (Grammatophyllum speciosum) growing high in the rainforest canopy in Borneo. This species is the world's largest orchid, with flowering stalks reaching 3 m long. Gunung Palung National Pa...
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Tim Laman / Giant orchid (Grammatophyllum speciosum) growing high in the rainforest canopy. This species is the world's largest orchid, with flowering stalks reaching 3 m long. Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo...
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Pete Oxford / Forest vegetation with epiphytes growing on tree branches on the western slope of the Mindo Cloud Forest, Ecuador, South America
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Jouan & Rius / Looking up through Epiphytes in the canopy of rainforest, Eungella National Park, Queensland, Australia
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Jouan & Rius / Epiphytes growing on trunk in a cloud forest, Santa Elena Nature Reserve, Costa Rica
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Ingo Arndt / Tropical rainforest / cloud forest scenic, Monteverde National Park, Costa Rica
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Dave Watts / Staghorn fern in rainforest {Platycerium superbum} Queensland, Australia
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Pete Oxford / Epiphytic bromeliad (Bromeliaceae) in canopy. Yasuni NP, Amazon, Ecuador, South America
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Tim Edwards / Hanging mosses on Mountain beech Temperate rainforest South Island New Zealand
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Vincent Grafhorst / Tree with epiphytes, Harenna Forest, Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia
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Ingo Arndt / Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees in swamp with epiphytes and ferns, Everglades National Park, Florida
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Ingo Arndt / Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees in swamp with epiphytes and ferns, Everglades National Park, Florida
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Gerry Ellis / Crown of emergent rainforest tree covered in epiphytes in montane tropical rainforest, Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica
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Tim Laman / Amazon rainforest canopy view with flowering Bromeliad (Bromeliaceae) epiphytes growing on a branch of a giant Ceiba (Ceiba sp.) tree at sunset, Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador.
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Jack Dykinga / Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) tree rooted on a nurse log, a fallen Redwood tree (Sequoia sempervirens) in old growth temperate rainforest, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, California, USA.
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Doug Gimesy / Arborist Ryan Roberts plants the sticky seeds of Long-flowered mistletoe (Dendrophthoe vitellina) - which were collected the previous day - onto the high branches of a Spotted gum tree (Corymbia macul...
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Doug Gimesy / Arborist Ryan Roberts plants the sticky seeds of Long-flowered mistletoe (Dendrophthoe vitellina) - which were collected the previous day - onto the high branches of a Spotted gum tree (Corymbia macul...
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Doug Gimesy / Woodland bird project officer Kristy Peters (from BirdLife Australia) documents the position and tree (via geotagging) where the sticky seeds of a Long-flowered mistletoe (Dendrophthoe vitellina) - co...
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Doug Gimesy / Arborist Sam Hardingham plants the sticky seeds of Long-flowered mistletoe (Dendrophthoe vitellina) - which were collected the previous day - onto the high branches of a Spotted gum tree (Corymbia mac...
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Linda Pitkin / Mistletoe (Viscum album). Box Hill, Surrey, England, UK. March.
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Cyril Ruoso / Bromeliad (Bromeliaceae) seedling growing as epiphyte on leaf alongside moss, lichen and cyanobacteria. Golfito, Costa Rica.
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Cyril Ruoso / Bromeliad (Bromeliaceae) seedling growing as epiphyte on leaf alongside moss, lichen and cyanobacteria. Golfito, Costa Rica.
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Cyril Ruoso / Leaf covered in epiphytes including moss, lichen and cyanobacteria. Golfito, Costa Rica.
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Terry Whittaker / Darwin's epiphytic orchid (Angraecum sesquipedale). In hotel garden, Andasibe, Madagascar.
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Terry Whittaker / Epiphytic orchid (Aerangis modesta). Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar.
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Ashley Cooper / Lichens hanging from branches in native Beech (Nothofagus sp) and Pine forest. Between Puerto Natales and Seno Obstruccion, Magallanes, Chile. January.
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Ashley Cooper / Lichens hanging from branches in native Beech (Nothofagus sp) and Pine forest. Between Puerto Natales and Seno Obstruccion, Magallanes, Chile. January.
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Jeff Foott / Small ballmoss (Tillandsia recurvata) growing on Boojum tree (Fouquieria columnaris) branch. Baja California, Mexico.
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Jeff Foott / Small ballmoss (Tillandsia recurvata) growing on Boojum tree (Fouquieria columnaris) branch. Baja California, Mexico.
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Jeff Foott / Small ballmoss (Tillandsia recurvata) growing on Boojum tree (Fouquieria columnaris) branch. Baja California, Mexico.
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Jeff Foott / Small ballmoss (Tillandsia recurvata) growing on Boojum tree (Fouquieria columnaris). Sonoran Desert, Baja California, Mexico.
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Emanuele Biggi / Two epiphytes, Hydnophytum formicarum (right) with symbiotic ant species (Iridomyrmex / Philidris cordatus) and Dischidia nummularia (left) another myrmecophyte plant. Growing side by side on a tree b...
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Nick Garbutt / Keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus) perched on branch amongst epiphytes. Boca Tapada, Costa Rica.
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Nick Garbutt / Collared aracari (Pteroglossus torquatus) perched on branch amongst epiphytes. Boca Tapada, Costa Rica.
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Juergen Freund / Basket fern (Drynaria rigidula) growing on tree trunks in forest, view from below. Far North Queensland, Australia.
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Juergen Freund / Bird's nest fern (Asplenium nidus) growing on tree trunk. Daintree Rainforest, Wet Tropics of Queensland, Australia.
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Juergen Freund / Swordfern (Aglaomorpha sp) on tree trunk in rainforest. Far North Queensland, Australia.
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Derek Galon / Epiphytes at base of tree in Syndicate Forest, Morne Diablotin National Park, Dominica, Lesser Antilles.
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Derek Galon / Vines and epiphytes on tree trunk in Syndicate Forest, Morne Diablotin National Park, Dominica, Lesser Antilles.
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Derek Galon / Epiphyte on buttress root in rainforest. Syndicate Forest, Morne Diablotin National Park, Dominica, Lesser Antilles.
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Morley Read / Tree trunks in montane rainforest covered with moss, epiphytes and Philodendron vines. At 2200m in elevation. Cordillera de Toisan, Los Cedros Biological Reserve, Imbabura Province, Ecuador. Digitally...
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Nick Hawkins / Bromeliad flowering in cloud forest, Choco region, Northwestern Ecuador.
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Nick Hawkins / Bromeliad growing in the cloud forests, Choco region, Northwestern Ecuador.