Tiny flower from a vine in the backyard.

Vanilla - Baunilha

The long cylinder fruit is the vanilla bean.  The very pointed single leaves are from the vanilla vine.  The larger sunlit leaves in the background are from an unidentified tree.

Vanilla - Baunilha

Clitorius sp

Timbó

Dry season in the Amazon

I dream of rain. I pray for rain. I wait anxiously for rain. Our visitors to Bosque Santa Lúcia will be surprised to find a desert in the making when they come for a tour. Believe me, it's part of the show. Another act coming up. Image: a guaraná plant stressed out from weeks without rain. The dust is thick. Let it rain.

Passiflora and ant

Forest flowers

Catching a ride

BOUGAINVILLE catching a ride in a rose apple tree.

Passionfruit

Vine on fencepost

Timbó leaves

Timbó (Paulinia pinnata)

Wild passion fruit

Passiflora sp.

Hybiscus

Alamanda

Guaraná blossoms

Guaraná (Paullina cupana)

Gurania

Gurania (Cucurbitaceae)

Guaraná

Guaraná (Paullina cupana)

Bannister caapi

The ayahuasca connection, Bannister caapi.

Passionfruit bud

A wild passionfruit bud.