Chilly Cloud Forests & Jurassic Conifers
Added 2025-07-14 14:59:15 +0000 UTCIn the chilly wet cloud forests of Costa Rica at 9200' (2800 m) elevation grows a massive, ancient conifer known as Pectinopotys (formerly Prumnopitys) standleyi, where it grows with Podocarpus costaricensis and massive oaks, with every tree covered in numerous species of orchids, bromeliads, ferns, mosses, liverworts and epiphytic blueberries.
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dwarf madrone!!
Yancy Clusto
2025-07-14 19:27:33 +0000 UTCOk,...small leafs, you have a dry place...or a dry season...but if you have the two, some dry months and some wet months the leafs adapt for that millions of years...millions, right?...the adaptation have to be veryyyyy slow... Now there is the problem of climate changing so fast,...or they have a baggage to deal it or go extinct... Pretty cool the woody ligner tuber of Ericaceae...why so many different species of Ericaceae in Costa Rica?...what is going there with Ericaceae🤔...you can t see the bed rock...could be the Bed Rock is doing something on plants of Ericaceae on Costa Rica🤔...
Ana Rita
2025-07-14 16:40:43 +0000 UTC
