Other Non-anilam Organisms Photos

These were pushed off the "Better Photos" page... but I hope you still find them worth perusing. If you see one that you think should replace something on the Better Photos page, I'd love to hear your thought!

No! I don't count my helpful giver-of-scale "non animal"... but this photo is on the "non-animal" page as the leaf is the subject!! (This is the "fig leaf" for the obsessively modest, if ever I saw one.)

Yes, I like to play with PhotoPlus (from Serif) or similar.

No, I haven't done that in this case!

You can't go to the Amazon and fail to visit the magnificant Victoria lilies... named in honor of Queen Victoria, back when they were first described for European science. The pads are up to seven feet across. Kew Garden (London) has a special pond, in a special greenhouse, that is dedicated to maintianing one of these beauties.

These were about 15cm high, very pretty. The first time I saw one, it was an arragement beside the basin in my bathroom at the Ceiba Tops lodge. It looked unreal, due to the color and the plump, waxy petals.

This is a "Swiss cheeze", or Monstera plant... hanging from a branch of a tree, about 80 feet above the ground. The vertical "things" are roots which descend to the ground to collect the water and nutrients the plant needs.

I was able to enjoy it thanks to Explorama's excellent canopy walkway.

These were about 10cm across, at head height. The decomposers are always busy here.

Does your florist stock helanconias like this?

A well populated branch in the canopy, seen from the ACTS canopy walk

Even when things with teeth aren't eating something, it is pretty likely that at least fungi will be. The Swiss Army knife "floating" in the air at the left indicates the scale... it is not farther away than the bracket fungi.

A close-up of some bracket fungi. No, that isn't snow!

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Fungus at work. (On the right, thank you.)

The green leaves are from a vine growing up the trunk.

Palm trees.

[Image of bark with moss]

(I liked the texture)

The mysteries of natural history. Why did the herbivore only eat this band of the leaf??

The variety of leaf form was fascinating. Many were very beautiful. Note the "extra" longitudinal rib in this one.

[Image of cecropia leaf]

This is the favored food of sloths. Learn to spot these trees, and you sloth-spotting score will rise.

[Image of green leaf]

Just pretty. Knife is there to give scale.

Sorry... this page is just getting started.... I'll try to re-order the photos, add comments, get the file sizes right.... Later! More photos, first?

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