A beach moonflower open in the evening. The pure white flowers unfold at dusk and close the next morning. Photo: Dinesh Valke, via Wikimedia Commons
Roble cimarrón in flower. The narrow, deep pink trumpets open only partway, a shape built for hummingbirds rather than bees. Photo: Dinesh Valke, via Wikimedia
Necklace pod in bloom in Wellington, Florida. The bright yellow flowers stand out against the soft, silvery-green, velvety leaflets. Photo: Katherine Wagner-Reiss, via Wikimedia Commons
With light behind them, moralón leaves show their net of reddish veins. Young plants carry some of the largest simple leaves of any West Indian
An old ausubo rises above sierra palms in El Yunque, Puerto Rico. Large trunks spread into broad, rounded buttresses at the base. Photo: Xemenendura, via
A trumpet tree (yagrumo hembra) near Río Grande, Puerto Rico. The pale, ringed trunk carries an open umbrella of huge, deeply lobed leaves. Photo: Cjziems,
Wallflower orchid in bloom: a slender spike carries a few pink-lavender flowers, each lip streaked with magenta veins around a yellow throat. Photo: Kurt Miller,
Lignum vitae flowers with a young, flattened heart-shaped fruit (upper right), the clearest way to tell this species from Florida’s Guaiacum sanctum. Photo: Forest and
A dense mass of fan maidenhair fronds, with wedge-shaped leaflets on black, hair-thin stalks, at the botanical garden of the University of Genoa. Photo: Hectonichus,
Capá prieto in full bloom. The white flowers turn brown as they age but stay on the tree, so a flowering crown looks frosted in
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