The Puerto Rico hat palm carries a rounded crown of stiff fan leaves on one of the thickest trunks of any Caribbean palm. Photo: Guettarda,
Helechos gigantes rise above the forest edge in El Yunque National Forest, Río Grande, Puerto Rico, their slender trunks topped with umbrellas of lacy fronds.
Hog plum, known in Puerto Rico as jobo, in fruit. The oval, plum-like fruits hang in loose clusters and ripen from green to golden yellow.
Antilles hohenbergia in bloom near Borinquen, Aguadilla, in northwestern Puerto Rico. The branched flower cluster rises only a little above the rosette of broad, spiny-edged
A cowhorn orchid in full bloom in a cypress swamp in Everglades National Park, its branched spike carrying dozens of yellow and maroon flowers above
Palo de nigua in flower. Each lavender, two-lipped tubular flower has a yellow patch in the throat and protruding dark stamens. Photo: Omar Monsegur, U.S.
The flower stands well above the water on a stout stalk, with narrow white petals around a golden center. Note the toothed edge of the
Airy, branched sprays of delicate violet orchid in bloom, each pale lavender flower marked with a violet blotch at the base of its broad lip.
Cabbage bark, called moca in Puerto Rico, in flower. In bloom the dense, dark green crown is dotted with clusters of pink to lilac pea
Spiny tree fern in the wet forest of Mameyes II, Río Grande, on the slopes of the Luquillo Mountains. The long, once-divided fronds with deeply
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