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Pictures of Trees in Colombia

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These " Pictures of Trees in Colombia " were taken during a 2007 trip to Colombia.





Emergent tree rising above the Amazon rainforest canopy


Orchids growing up the trunk of a tree in a Colombian cloud forest


Bromeliads blanketing a canopy tree in the Andean montane forest


Canopy tree laden with hundreds of epiphytes


The shallow root structure of a canopy tree


Canopy trees with white leaves


Bromeliad atop a rainforest canopy tree


Canopy tree laden with epiphytes


Epiphytes on a rainforest tree


Bromeliads and other epiphytes in a canopy tree




Cecropia tree


Looking up at a canopy platform in a Kapok tree


Rainforest canopy tree


Oropendula nests along the Amacayacu, a tributary of the Amazon river


Walking palm


Rio Amacayacu


Canopy trees in Santuario Ot�n Quimbaya


Red palm roots


Buttress roots of an Amazon rainforest tree


Towering Ceiba tree in the Colombian Amazon


Banyon tree in the Amazon


Buttress roots provide support for an Amazon rainforest tree


Shallow-rooted rainforest canopy trees often have buttress roots for support


Giant Ceiba tree in the Colombian Amazon


Emergent canopy tree at sunset


Disperse roots provide support for a Banyon tree in the Amazon










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