Category: Vegetal kingdom
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Taxizeiros flight
On the horizon of the photo, the Negro river dominates and the channel empties into it or, interestingly, it can also reverse
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Awarded forest
Image awarded first place in the 11th Itaú-BBA National Contest of Photography in the Flowered Forest category.
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Natural calendar
Maybe the riverside people’s feelings are not enchanted by that spectacle, as I am.
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Lucid dreams
The proud Brazil Nut tree is the noble tree of ancient times, the era of the great Brazil Nut trees groves. What we see today are just the remnants…
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Eyes of guaraná
The fruit of guaraná (Paullinia cupana) grows from a vine in the Amazon rainforest. Cultivated by the Sateré-Mawé, the plant is native
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Ephemeral flower
That is, until one day, suddenly, she opened the doors of her cathedral to me, ten years after our first meeting.
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What? Hybrid?
When two species such as C. eldorado and C. violacea, despite having different flowering times, due to special circumstances…
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Dark wonder
The orchid receives exotic names such as ‘dark wonder’ or ‘dark warrior’ for its petals and dark burgundy sepals.
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Your Majesty
The white, slightly pinkish flower appears this way on the first day, but it gradually turns more red as time passes…
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The last ray
At sunset, one of the tallest trees in the area, the angelim-ferro (Dinizia excelsa), bathes in the gold of the last ray of sun over the forest…
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Fairy dust
The humid tropical forest is hot and dense, considered the oldest ecosystem on Earth. The Equator line runs through the Amazon…
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Thousand eyes
It’s 6:33 in the morning, the sun’s rays have already invaded the Abra144 valley with all the heat of the month of August.
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In the kapok shade
It’s the month of April and the water is already on the pillars of the blockhouse. The kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) also feels the tickle
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Princess
From my balcony overlooking the forest, I am greeted by the sight of the majestic tree, a 180-feet-tall iron tree (Dinizia excelsa).
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Princess Residents
During the mating season, two toucans (Ramphastos tucanus), also known as the white-throated toucan, begin to regularly visit the Princesa
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Domesticating a tree
Domesticating a tree does not in any way tame or change the nature of that living being. Domestication refers only to the conditions that
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An angel
An orchid with open arms, wings and even aureola, a protective angel of nature. I ask myself, again I ask myself, I always ask myself:
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Little fairy
The inevitable question always comes to my mind: who designed you? so perfect! so harmoniously proportioned!
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A minute violet dot
A minute violet dot about 40 meters high from an adult and healthy kapok tree, there it was, enjoying the shade of a very sunny afternoon.
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Immaculate beauty
In Central America, it is popularly known as “orquídea de la Virgen Maria” and, certainly, its immaculate beauty justifies
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Bifrenaria rudolfii
In this photographic version, the foreground was then isolated to reduce background brightness and thus allow the main
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Aphrodisiac perfume
This orchid (Catasetum barbatum) it is unique in having male, female, and hermaphroditic flowers, pollinated by male Euglossine bees.
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Priestess flower
I had obtained authorization to photograph in an area reserved for research, INPA’s Campina Reserve. I had all day to flutter between
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Perfect symmetry
The perfect symmetry of the flower suggests a very complex geometry, which can even be carried on an architect’s drawing board. But
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Cattleya eldorado
It is mainly present in campinas, in areas of high luminosity, preferentially vegetating on macucu (Aldina heterophylla).
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Special night
The kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) was in bloom, and I had had my fill of photographs during the day.
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Ballerina orquid
Notice the arms crossed above the head and the legs, as if standing on tiptoe. Who drew you, dancer?
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Poet’s orchid
The wooer came, adding more wonders. Yes, the courtier comes to flower to perfume himself, as this is part of his mating ritual.
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Inebriating perfume
The discovery of a flowering orchid in the treetops is a celebration. I once stood in the canopy for several hours,
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Shameless monkey
The capuchin monkey seems to smell the flower, but make no mistake, he is about to make another prank, as is his nature.
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Blue orchid
The orchid like very much to grow near waterfalls, like in the picture, taken near the Neblina waterfall,