Esther's photos with the keyword: bromeliad

Tilandsias (Explored)

12 Jan 2025 17 14 116
Copan, Honduras Sunday Challenge: Composition with an S-curve AP1045054

Fuzzy trees

10 Jan 2025 12 13 202
The trees are covered with epiphytic bromeliads Copan, Honduras AP1045012

Bromeliads (Explored)

18 Jun 2022 20 17 155
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Entering Machu Picchu

06 Aug 2014 10 6 416
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

Vines and bromeliads

05 Apr 2014 4 3 333
Cajas National Park, Ecuador. The pops of red are the bromeliads in the treetops. AIMG 0213

Where there is light, there is life

17 Jun 2011 214
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

If there's light, there is growth

18 Feb 2011 252
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

Home sweet home

12 Mar 2011 1 2 189
A spider lives undisturbed amid the pineapples at the Collin Street Bakery Farm in Costa Rica. AxMG_1879

Hidden beauty

12 Mar 2011 192
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

Baby Pineapple

18 Mar 2011 1 2 211
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