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| Heliconia growing near the conservatory entrance.
| A huge, dark anthurium with a brilliant red spathe.
| Birdsnest Anthurium with slightly flattened spadices growing in the aquatics section.
| Heliconia up close.
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| Philodendron gloriosum - one of the philos that grows along the ground and refuses to climb trees.
| Waterlily flower.
| Victoria amazonica with a flower at the end of its second day.
| Myrmecodia sp. - an ant plant with a swollen base. Note the babies growing on the stem.
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| Probably dischidia imbricata. The leaves hug the bark of its host and form spaces underneath where ants can set up shop.
| Haemaria discolor, probably the most common jewel orchid.
| Victoria amazonica in flower.
| Aeschynanthus sp? Definitely looks like something bird-pollenated.
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| What a funky looking spadix! I really have no idea what this is.
| Hybrid orchids in a temporary but popular exhibit.
| I don't really grow many hybrids.
| Cyrtostachys lakka - sealing wax palm with the red crownshaft.
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| I dunno what this is - some kinda bromeliad?
| Phragipedium sp.
| Dendrobium spectabile
| Thunbergia mysorensis
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| New leaf for a philodendron.
| This is a dioscorea - a yam. It's got a caudificorm base and grows a vine out the top. Probably Dioscorea elephantipes or a relative. I guess I could have read the sign - maybe next time I visit.
| This huge Philodendron speciosum is over 100 years old. Check out all the roots.
| Those heliconias at the entrance again.
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