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Shrubs, trees and rosettes

Flowers, leaf shapes and plant forms along highland trails and around Cuenca, from páramo shrubs to bromeliads and a flowering park tree.

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Pink Bejaria flowers rise above dense small leaves on a mountain slope. Their long pale-tipped stamens project beyond the petals.
Bejaria flowering on a mountain slope
Dense yellow Gynoxys flower clusters cover grey-green shrubs in the páramo at Baute, beside a lake and below grassy slopes with a hiker and mist-covered rocky peaks.
Flowering Gynoxys shrubs below misty peaks
Hanging red Macleania flowers with short pale tips cluster among glossy green leaves, showing the compact urn-shaped corollas.
Macleania flowers with pale tips
A large Oreocallis grandiflora flower cluster forms a pink-and-cream brush of long styles and curled perianth segments above leathery leaves.
Pink Oreocallis grandiflora flowering brush
Rounded yellow-orange Berberis flowers and pink-red buds hang on branching pink stalks beneath stiff, holly-like leaves with spiny margins.
Berberis flowers on pink stalks
Short clusters of pink and white, urn-shaped Vaccinium floribundum flowers hang from a slender branch among small glossy leaves.
Pink-white Vaccinium floribundum flowers
Miconia bears clusters of tiny pale flowers with yellow stamens above small opposite leaves with three strong veins.
Miconia flower clusters among páramo plants
A person follows a narrow grassy trail past Baccharis shrubs covered in pale flower clusters and small trees, with the highland slope disappearing into fog.
Flowering Baccharis on a foggy highland trail
Small white Baccharis genistelloides flower heads grow along flattened, winged green stem segments.
Baccharis genistelloides flowers on winged stems
Spiky Puya rosettes stand among tussock grasses across the rolling páramo slopes at Llulluchas, below exposed rocky hills.
Puya rosettes across páramo slopes
A developing Puya flower spike is enclosed by dense reddish-brown bracts above long spiny leaves, among pale highland tussock grasses.
Developing Puya flower spike in páramo grass
A Guzmania bromeliad has long scarlet floral bracts above a rosette of strap-shaped leaves.
Scarlet Guzmania bromeliad
A Tillandsia bromeliad grows on rock, with silvery strap-shaped leaves and a branched red inflorescence.
Tillandsia with a red inflorescence
A large blue-green Agave rosette grows from a rocky bank above brown water, its stiff pointed leaves surrounded by dense shrubs.
Agave rosette above a rocky bank
Orange and yellow Streptosolen jamesonii flowers cluster beside a tree trunk at Yamballa, with narrow tubes opening into broad, shallowly lobed faces.
Streptosolen jamesonii beside a tree trunk
A leafy Tecoma tree bears dense clusters of yellow trumpet-shaped flowers beside a riverside park.
Yellow-flowered Tecoma tree beside a park

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