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Staff photo index
Last update: 2017-07-27
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Cactus flower
(United States)
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Light pink lily
(Kenya)
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Spores on a fern leaf
(Peru)
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Amazon water lilies [br_co-0041]
(Colombia)
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Swallowtail feeding on red flowers
(United States)
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Epiphytes in China
(China)
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Palm leaf bent by a tent making bat (Uroderma sp.)
(Panama)
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A tree with bromeliads in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Detail of petrified log in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
(United States)
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Mangroves on a Turneffe Atoll island
(Belize)
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Red flowers on a vine
(Madagascar)
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Flower
(Thailand)
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Orange fungi
(Madagascar)
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Shrub with leaves that change color--from green to purple to orange--as they are exposed to sunlight
(Malaysia)
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White mushrooms
(Malaysia)
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Tree with red buds and yellow flowers growing in the tsingy of northwestern Madagascar
(Madagascar)
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Teak nursery in Sulawesi (Toraja Land (Torajaland), Sulawesi)
(Indonesia)
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Galapagos Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus galapagoensis)
(Ecuador)
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Buttress roots of rain forest tree
(Malaysia)
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Tiny fern species
(Peru)
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Green cauliflorous growths [sabah_tawau_0422]
(Malaysia)
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Bat-dispersed fruit
(Suriname)
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Ferns and other vegetation in Andringitra NP
(Madagascar)
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Gal‡pagos shark
(Ecuador)
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Purple flower [suriname_2072]
(Suriname)
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Ginger
(China)
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Rainforest seedling
(Malaysia)
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Mushrooms
(Madagascar)
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0
(Malaysia)
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Red understory flowers in Borneo [sabah_tawau_0504]
(Malaysia)
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Red flowers
(Malaysia)
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Plants on forest floor
(Guyana)
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Green fruit
(Malaysia)
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Adansonia za Baobabs [madagascar_7469]
(Madagascar)
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White fungi
(Australia)
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Red-orange fungi in Masoala NP (Masoala NP)
(Madagascar)
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Flower bugs
(Cambodia)
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Red fungi [madagascar_1247]
(Madagascar)
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Fan palms [australia_daintree_041]
(Australia)
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Sunlit leaves
(Madagascar)
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Fungi [australia_mossman_gorge_214]
(Australia)
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Flowers
(Sri Lanka)
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Giant Rosette Plant (Lobelia keniensis)
(Kenya)
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Banyan trees
(United States)
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Flora of the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Researcher examining a bamboo fungus
(China)
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Monkey ladder liana splitting
(Suriname)
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Camp site between Pic Boby and Mororano
(Madagascar)
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Large green umbrella leaf
(Colombia)
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Ginger
(0)
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Land iguana
(Ecuador)
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Flower [suriname_1614]
(Suriname)
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Orange mushrooms
(Vietnam)
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Path through a bamboo grove [panama_1211]
(Panama)
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White flower
(Malaysia)
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Wild orange hibiscis
(Indonesia)
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Clover canopy [olympic_rainforest_0066]
(United States)
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Ginger
(China)
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Palm tree at sunrise
(United States)
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Red palm leaf
(Panama)
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White cup fungi
(Suriname)
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Red and white flowers
(Costa Rica)
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Agave family. Identification by Alexander Gostner.
(Colombia)
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Bird atop a Lobelia telekii plant on Mt Kenya
(Kenya)
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Green berries with a pink stem
(Cambodia)
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Pink lotus flower
(China)
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Nipa palms (Kalimantan, Borneo - Indonesian Borneo)
(Indonesia)
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Monkey ladder liana
(Suriname)
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Yellow Agave attenuata flower. Identification by Alexander Gostner.
(Colombia)
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Demonstrating how to pollinate the vanilla orchid flower
(Madagascar)
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Orange flower
(Indonesia)
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Fire-resistant Bismarck Palms (Bismarckia nobilis) near Isalo [madagascar_7110]
(Madagascar)
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Nipa palms along the Seikonyer River (Kalimantan, Borneo - Indonesian Borneo) -- kali8924
(Indonesia)
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Green-white orchid in Mexico
(Mexico)
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Fan palms [australia_daintree_036]
(Australia)
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Pink cyclone flower [madagascar_3683]
(Madagascar)
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Fan palm [australia_daintree_229]
(Australia)
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Adansonia za Baobabs [madagascar_7464]
(Madagascar)
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Pandanus
(China)
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Victoria Water Lily in the Amazon
(Colombia)
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Light yellow mushrooms in Colombia
(Colombia)
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Purple rainforest flowers [colombia_0452]
(Colombia)
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Giant African baobab -- tz_xt_3504
(Tanzania)
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Bamboo forest in Oheo Gulch
(United States)
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Giant bamboo
(Madagascar)
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Tree fern in Madagascar [madagascar_perinet_0246]
(Madagascar)
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Red cup mushroom [costa_rica_la_selva_0928]
(Costa Rica)
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Colorful wildflowers near Shangri-La
(China)
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Orchid [australia_fnq_0255]
(Australia)
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Epiphyte [australia_fnq_0135]
(Australia)
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White fungi with emerging black hairs (Kalimantan, Borneo - Indonesian Borneo)
(Indonesia)
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Couroupita guianensis flower
(0)
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Cup fungi
(Peru)
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Andringitra plant [madagascar_6504]
(Madagascar)
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Bigelow's thistle (Cirsium occidentale var. californicum)
(United States)
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Red fruit [kalteng_0521]
(Indonesia)
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Ripe red cacao pod with vanilla plant (Toraja Land (Torajaland), Sulawesi)
(Indonesia)
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Marine iguana on a red sand beach
(Ecuador)
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Striking yellow blossoms of the Corteza Amarilla (Tabebuia ochracea) in bloom
(Costa Rica)
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Giant Rosette Plant (Lobelia keniensis)
(Kenya)
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Flower in Ambodiforaha village (Masoala NP)
(Madagascar)
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Yellow flower
(Indonesia)
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Kicker Rock
(Ecuador)
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Vanilla orchid flower
(Madagascar)
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Pink flowers of Rubiaceae: Mussaenda (coffee family)
(Colombia)
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Canopy tree and a liana
(Suriname)
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Large ferns above the Kinabantagan River in Sabah, Malaysia
(Malaysia)
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0
(Malaysia)
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Rain in Santa Fe, New Mexico
(United States)
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Plants in forest
(Guyana)
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Strangler fig [australia_daintree_212]
(Australia)
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Marine iguana on a red sand beach
(Ecuador)
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Pitcher plant, Nepenthes rafflesiana, positioned on the forest floor (Kalimantan, Borneo - Indonesian Borneo)
(Indonesia)
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Galapagos Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus galapagoensis)
(Ecuador)
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Green cacao pods (Toraja Land (Torajaland), Sulawesi)
(Indonesia)
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Red ginger [suriname_1601]
(Suriname)
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Bombus transversalis bumble bee flying toward a yellow flower in the Colombian Amazon
(Colombia)
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Flowers
(Malaysia)
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Queen Victoria water lily in the Amazon
(Colombia)
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Andringitra plants [madagascar_6797]
(Madagascar)
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Red fungi
(Indonesia)
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Red-leaved plants and wildflowers
(China)
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Bird's nest ferns in the rainforest canopy
(Indonesia)
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Nepenthes pitcher plant
(Malaysia)
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Orange Heliconia [co03-9775]
(Colombia)
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Tulip trees in Sulawesi
(Indonesia)
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Roots of rainforest trees growing down a rock face
(Malaysia)
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White flower with yellow and pink inner parts
(United States)
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Plant
(Indonesia)
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Vines growing up the trunk of a canopy tree
(Malaysia)
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Red flower [madagascar_3865]
(Madagascar)
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Rainforest vegetation
(Malaysia)
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Natural bonsai
(Madagascar)
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Figs
(Thailand)
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Zingiber spectabile (ginger) [co01-9255]
(Colombia)
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Light brown fungi -- borneo_3781
(Malaysia)
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Umbrella plant in Sulawesi
(Indonesia)
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Orange flowers
(Indonesia)
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Pink flower
(0)
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Green flower buds
(Peru)
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A view of the river,a community gathering spot,near Mencia in the Pedernales Province of the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Green figs (Java)
(Indonesia)
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Liana
(Indonesia)
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Fall colors in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico
(United States)
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Black, green, and red slender pitcher plant (Nepenthes gracilis) -- borneo_5010
(Malaysia)
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Tibetan wildflowers
(China)
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Chinese bamboo
(China)
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Galapagos Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus galapagoensis)
(Ecuador)
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Fallen limb of a giant strangler fig tree [madagascar_4226]
(Madagascar)
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Cauliflorous flowers in Australia [australia_mossman_gorge_267]
(Australia)
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Rust-colored fungi [kalbar_0161]
(Indonesia)
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Alluaudia montagnacii [madagascar_7632]
(Madagascar)
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White flower
(Indonesia)
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Amazon water lily shaped like a pair of lips
(Colombia)
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Rainforest leaves [costa_rica_4487]
(Costa Rica)
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Ceiba tree
(Costa Rica)
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Nepenthes rafflesiana, a large pitcher plant found in kerangas and peat swamp forests of Borneo (Kalimantan, Borneo - Indonesian Borneo)
(Indonesia)
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Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) at Cerro Brujo
(Ecuador)
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Orange palm fruit [co03-9812]
(Colombia)
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Red orange flower
(Peru)
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Purple blossom
(Panama)
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Baobabs in village outside of Tulear [madagascar_7808]
(Madagascar)
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Bromeliad
(Peru)
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Figs
(Indonesia)
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Long buttress root
(Malaysia)
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Kirstenbosch national botanical gardens [south_africa_capetown_0031]
(South Africa)
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Red bird-of-paradise
(Costa Rica)
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Cacao pod with vanilla plant (Toraja Land (Torajaland), Sulawesi)
(Indonesia)
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Vine climbing a rainforest tree
(Indonesia)
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White mushrooms (Kalimantan, Borneo - Indonesian Borneo)
(Indonesia)
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Cactus flower
(United States)
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Banyan trees
(United States)
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Teak tree farm (Toraja Land (Torajaland), Sulawesi)
(Indonesia)
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Fungi [australia_mossman_gorge_213]
(Australia)
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Purple flowers
(Vietnam)
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Heliconia flower
(Peru)
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Bamboo forest [panama_1233]
(Panama)
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Flora
(Namibia)
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A flower in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Cecropia leaves
(Peru)
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Yellow flowers emerging from charred earth [madagascar_6404]
(Madagascar)
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Orange berries
(Australia)
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White flowers of a rain forest shrub
(Malaysia)
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White flower with long magenta stems
(Thailand)
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Yellow fungi
(China)
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Brown and white mushrooms
(Malaysia)
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Galapagos tortoise
(Ecuador)
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Red berries or flower buds
(Indonesia)
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Red fungi
(Suriname)
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Red fruits on rainforest shrub (Kalimantan, Borneo - Indonesian Borneo)
(Indonesia)
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Strangler fig -- sabah_3748
(Malaysia)
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Australian tree fern
(Australia)
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Horseman's star (Hippeastrum) in the Lacassine Wildlife Refuge cypress swamp
(United States)
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Red leaves (Toraja Land (Torajaland), Sulawesi) -- sulawesi6644
(Indonesia)
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Brown mushroom
(United States)
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Kapok flower
(Peru)
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Berries in the rainforest canopy
(Malaysia)
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Leucadendron salignum [south_africa_capetown_0053]
(South Africa)
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Hot lips flower
(Peru)
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Yellow flowers in Big Sur
(United States)
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Leaves
(Australia)
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Tussock grasses, senecios and lobelias in the Afro-alpine moorland zone of Mt. Kenya
(Kenya)
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Bamboo forest in Oheo Gulch
(United States)
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Blue berries [australia_fnq_0277]
(Australia)
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Victoria amazonica water lilies in the Amazon [co07-0289]
(Colombia)
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Red fruit [kalteng_0515]
(Indonesia)
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Veins on a rainforest leaf
(Peru)
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Inside a Strangler fig [australia_daintree_215]
(Australia)
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0
(Malaysia)
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Galapagos Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus galapagoensis)
(Ecuador)
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Ficus ischnopoda flower
(China)
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Pink cactus flowers
(United States)
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Protea [south_africa_hermanus_1337]
(South Africa)
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Off-white orchid with orange spots -- borneo_3406
(Malaysia)
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Passion vine blossom with resident ant species
(Suriname)
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Bamboo in Madagascar [madagascar_maroantsetra_0041]
(Madagascar)
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Papaya tree with papayas (Toraja Land (Torajaland), Sulawesi)
(Indonesia)
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Bamboo forest
(United States)
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Purple fern shoot
(United States)
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Red cup mushroom [costa_rica_la_selva_0931]
(Costa Rica)
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Tree with thrunk that splits into three
(Malaysia)
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Mushrooms in China
(China)
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White flower
(0)
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Marine iguana
(Ecuador)
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Chinese bamboo
(China)
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Kirstenbosch national botanical gardens [south_africa_capetown_0079]
(South Africa)
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Angrecum orchid
(Madagascar)
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Red leaves (Toraja Land (Torajaland), Sulawesi)
(Indonesia)
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Spiny forest vegetation [madagascar_7617]
(Madagascar)
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Pitcher plants
(0)
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Red flower
(Costa Rica)
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White fungi [madagascar_5471]
(Madagascar)
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Monkey ladder liana [suriname_1244]
(Suriname)
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Leaves [australia_fnq_0153]
(Australia)
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Flowers
(0)
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Flowering plant
(United States)
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Maroon flowers
(Laos)
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Purple flower
(Costa Rica)
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Ferns illuminated in the late afternoon sun
(Madagascar)
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Red-leaved plant in northwest Yunnan
(China)
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Fungi
(Indonesia)
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Rainforest leaves [costa_rica_4488]
(Costa Rica)
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Red fungi
(Malaysia)
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Flower ball
(Malaysia)
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Pink lotus (Java)
(Indonesia)
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Hibiscus
(Costa Rica)
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Orchid near Ranomafana (Ranomafana N.P.)
(Madagascar)
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Epiphyte
(Malaysia)
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Red orange flowers -- borneo_3103
(Malaysia)
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Galapagos tortoise
(Ecuador)
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Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) at Cerro Brujo
(Ecuador)
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White and maroon flower in Vietnam
(Vietnam)
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Black, white, and brown fungi
(Malaysia)
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Banana leaf
(Colombia)
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Red mushroom [madagascar_masoala_0798]
(Madagascar)
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Roots of jungle tree (Ubud, Bali)
(Indonesia)
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Birdnest fern in the rainforest canopy [madagascar_3576]
(Madagascar)
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Spiny seed pods [madagascar_nosy_komba_0076]
(Madagascar)
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White mushrooms
(Cambodia)
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White latex running from a rubber tree
(Costa Rica)
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Brown fungi
(Costa Rica)
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Aechmea fasciata (Aloe). Identification by Alexander Gostner.
(Colombia)
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Red flowers growing out of a tree trunk
(Indonesia)
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Fern illuminated by sunlight
(Madagascar)
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Flowers [madagascar_masoala_0806]
(Madagascar)
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Protea flower, side view
(Colombia)
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Sun-lit leaves in a North American broad-leaf forest
(0)
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Red flowers of a bromeliad in the Amazon rainforest canopy [co04-1024]
(Colombia)
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Red cup mushroom (Cookeina speciosa) [costa_rica_la_selva_0331]
(Costa Rica)
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Passion vine blossoms
(Suriname)
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Mushrooms
(China)
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Golden flower [madagascar_1015]
(Madagascar)
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Red fungi
(Peru)
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Bamboo fungus (Phallus indusiatus) in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan.
(China)
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Palm fruit
(0)
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Fungi [australia_daintree_105]
(Australia)
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Tree with a red trunk [kalbar_0457]
(Indonesia)
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Yellow heliconia flowers
(Costa Rica)
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Strangler fig
(Suriname)
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Red ginger flower [colombia_0450]
(Colombia)
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What Tikal looked like before excavation
(Belize)
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Tree with red bark in the Borneo jungle
(Indonesia)
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Marine iguana
(Ecuador)
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Cup fungi
(Peru)
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Pink passion flower (Passflora)
(Peru)
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Bees pollinating a pink and yellow flower [suriname_0333]
(Suriname)
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Baobab tree damaged by elephants -- tz_xt_3502
(Tanzania)
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Juniper
(Colombia)
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Glowing fungi -- sabah_3589
(Malaysia)
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Tree fern [wayquecha-andes_0522]
(Peru)
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Orchid (Andasibe) [orchid0094]
(Madagascar)
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Pink flower [wayquecha-andes_0146]
(Peru)
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Strangler fig
(Indonesia)
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Andringitra plant [madagascar_6503]
(Madagascar)
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0
(Malaysia)
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Tussock grasses, senecios and lobelias in the Afro-alpine moorland zone of Mt. Kenya
(Kenya)
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Plant
(Indonesia)
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Papaveraceae (possibly Bocconia )
(Colombia)
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Cup mushroom
(Indonesia)
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Yellow flowers
(United States)
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