Pictures of plants [last update 2011-12-25]

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Below you will find a collection of photos from various places. Except where noted, pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler, copyright 1994-2012. While these images are the property of mongabay.com, it may be permissible to use them for non-commercial purposes (like powerpoint presentations and school projects), provided that the images are not altered in any form. Please read this for more details. If you are interested in using an image in a publication please contact me.

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Amazonian Bird of Paradise Strangler fig (Costa Rica) Banana flowers and red banana fruit (Costa Rica) Pink bananas Bromeliad (Costa Rica) Sun accented palm leaves (Malaysia) Emergent tree rising above the Amazon rainforest canopy Bamboo forest (Gabon) Oxbow lake filled with Amazon water lilies in Colombia Slender pitcher plant (Nepenthes gracilis) (Malaysia) Palm fruits (close up) Light orange heliconia (Belize) Red flower (Laos) Maroon and white vine flower (Uganda) Water lily blossom Red heliconia (Thailand) Heliconia flower (Costa Rica) Flower (Thailand) Magenta-purple orchid blossoms Red ginger flower (Indonesia) Cactus flower (Utah; United States) Purple banana flower Red flowers of a bromeliad in the Amazon rainforest canopy Orange-red tubular flower White; yellow; and lavendar orchid blossom Pink and yellow flowers Philodendron in Colombia Swamp in a Colombian montane forest near Pereira Green cacao pods still on the tree (Indonesia) Passion flower (Costa Rica) Wild red ginger flowers (Indonesia) Canivorous yellow trumpet plant (Sarracenia flava) Red fruit White flower buds (Belize) Orange flower American pitcher plants (Sarracenia) Flowers of a bromeliad (Belize) Philodendron leaves (Belize) Red Heliconia Epiphyte garden near to the summit of Auyantepui (Venezuela) Pink Flower (Burma) Brick red Heliconia Fireball lily (Kenya) Strangler fig Palm fruits (Guatemala) Jungle leaf Red passion vine flower (Costa Rica) Flowers of the carnivorous American trumpet plant Senecio plant (Kenya) White flower Pink-fuschia flowers (Kenya) Pink and red ginger flower Cacti Red heliconia (Suriname) Blue fruit - berries (Belize) Flowering bromeliad (Costa Rica) Wild red ginger flowers Senecio keniodendron (Kenya) Green flower (Utah; United States) PemÛn guide in an epiphyte garden near the summit of Auyantepui (Venezuela) Red passiflora flower Lobelia telekii (Kenya) Organic solar cell Mt. Kenya alpine floral community (Kenya) Papaya leaf The snap traps of the Venus fly trap (Dionaea muscipula) close rapidly when triggered to trap prey between two lobes. Red and yellow brachts of a Heliconia in Colombia Pink water lotus (Indonesia) Close up on the mouth of a Fuchsia-colored Sarracenia (?) trumpet plant White flower blossom of Victoria amazonica White flower on the forest floor (Gabon) Papaya leaf (Indonesia) Ginger Strange palm leaf (Guatemala) Purple flowers (Utah; United States) American pitcher plants (Sarracenia) White and pink flower (Malaysia) Rainforest lily leaf (Costa Rica) Heliconia Pink ginger flowers (Indonesia) Banana flower Cousin it cactus Emerging Victoria amazonica leaf Pink flower of an epiphyte (Belize) Thorns on the trunk of the Pejibaye (peach palm), a rainforest tree. Fruits of this palm are boiled, pealed and eaten with mayonnaise. (Costa Rica) Orange-pink flower Protea flower plants: Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 | Page 9 | Page 10 | Page 11 | Page 12 | Page 13 | Page 14 | Page 15 | Page 16 | Page 17 | Page 18 | Page 19 | Page 20 | Page 21 | Page 22 | Page 23 | Page 24 | Page 25 | Page 26