Esther's photos with the keyword: bromeliad

Copan, Honduras Sunday Challenge: Composition with an S-curve AP1045054

The trees are covered with epiphytic bromeliads Copan, Honduras AP1045012

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Machu Picchu is believed to be the estate of a 15th-century Incan emperor. It is located at an altitude of 7,970 feet (2,430 meters) in the Andes mountains of Peru. AIMG 0909

Cajas National Park, Ecuador. The pops of red are the bromeliads in the treetops. AIMG 0213

A bromeliad has attached itself to a tree where it grows towards the light in Cano Negro National Wildlife Reserve in Costa Rica AxMG_2523

Bromeliads cover a coconut palm tree at the Sarapiqui Rainforest Lodge. Epiphytic species, such as those int he photograph can be found growing on other plants or anything in which their roots can get a foothold to hang on. Their ability to obtainnutrition and moisture from the atmosphere has earned these species of bromeliads the name, "Air Plants". The leaves are in a spiral arrangement known as a "rosette." The baseof the leaves in the rosette overlaps to form a water reservoir. This reservoir collects leaf detris and insects which nourish the plant. AxMG_1720

A spider lives undisturbed amid the pineapples at the Collin Street Bakery Farm in Costa Rica. AxMG_1879

A lone pineapple is hidden in the leaves at the Collin Street Bakery Farm in Costa Rica. Commercial farms induce pineapples to bloom at the same time by exposing them to ethylene gas but sometimes, a pineapple will fruit on its own. AxMG_1884

Collin Street Bakery Farm (Corsicana) is the largest organic golden pineapple farm in Costa Rica and is Fair Trade Certified. This young pineapple is highly ornamental. The pineapple fruit consists of the coalesced berrys of the plant, which are visible in this photograph. axMG_1907