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The northeast corner of the Botanical Gardens has a great frame for the buildings in the background.
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Bromeliads
Bromeliads pack into every available space or branch. Few plants have the variety of shape, size and color.
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Bracken Ferns
New growth in cleared areas often includes bracken ferns. They found that cattle that grazed on the ferns produce carcinogenic milk products.
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Orchids
Just a few meters from QERC there is a large rock on the hillside almost completely covered by trees and vegetation where some small orchids call home.
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Mora
Black berries grow in abundance in the areas where new growth is happening following cutting of the big trees. They make great juice and jelly, but they also make hiking through them a miserable experience.
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Rio Savegre
The Rio Savegre flows near QERC. Its sound adds "white noise" to give you a great sleep when the lights go out.
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Epiphyte in the White Oak
The epiphytes and grow quite thick on the branches, so you wouldn't want to sleep under the branches. When you hike the trails you find evidence of them falling in mass.
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Bamboo and White Oak
The primary cloud forest around QERC is bamboo and white oak. The tall white oak have hundreds of bromeliads, orchids and other epiphytes. Some frogs live their entire life-cycle in the water held by the bromeliads.
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Top of the World
Andrew near the top of Cerro de la Muerte getting a picture back toward QERC with Manuel Antonio Park in the background.
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Wes Hanson has been a member since 15 November 2007 and goes by whanson.
Currently in Oklahoma City.
I am a molecular biologist who loves photography. I love the small things in life (macros, sEM's, and tEM's) but I never fell in love with the dark room when I had to use negatives. I didn't liked the chemicals, the baths, or the timers, so it was a really easy transition to digital cameras and Photoshop! My job position makes me the director of our fieldstation QERC in Costa Rica so this has planted an interest in me in the environment, the montane cloud forests and the respelendent...
You can also find Wes at www.flickr.com/photos/kojo_46.
