Young fruits of West Indian walnut in Cuba. Each green husk will darken as it ripens around a hard, ridged nut. Photo: Mario Guzmán, via
A broad halberd fern showing its glossy, deeply lobed fronds; the round sori on the underside show through as rows of dots. Photo: Alan Rockefeller,
A ripening higüera hangs directly from an old branch, surrounded by the tufts of spoon-shaped leaves that grow in clusters along calabash twigs. Jardin botanique
A Sintenis vriesea in flower on a branch in the mountains of Ponce municipality, Puerto Rico, with wine-red leaves and a spike of red bracts.
A West Indian locust flower, with broad white petals and long, curving stamens. In Puerto Rico the tree is called algarrobo. Photographed in São Paulo,
Capá blanco in forest at Maricao, Puerto Rico. The large, strongly veined leaves are set opposite one another or in whorls of three at the
A colony of hammock fern on a shady forest floor between Deshaies and Morne Mazeau, Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles. New fronds open pink to
A Pterocarpus swamp forest at Babin, Morne-à-l’Eau, Guadeloupe. Bloodwood’s snaking plank buttresses spread across the mud and hold the trees upright in soft, flooded ground.
A flowering branch in Comerío, Puerto Rico. The small cream flowers are carried in a much-branched cluster above a whorl of leathery leaves. Photo: Kurt
A mature Spanish cedar with its broad crown of feathery compound leaves. Photo: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Cedrela odorata, known
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