These visitors to the Amazon provide scale for this large buttress root system. Trees are usually deep rooted to extract more nutrients, but buttress roots support are shallowly rooted trees. They are common in rain forests because most of the nutrients are inside the trees and plants of the forest leaving the soil nutrient poor.
Pictured is a traditional thatched home. Usually beehive shaped, this type of home is becoming rarer as bigger homes...
A common in flower in Colombia. If you know the name of this species, please leave a comment.
A section of flooded rain forest in the Amazonas Region of Colombia. Up to one-third of Colombia resides in...
Shaman in the Amazon are known for inducing altered states of consciousness. They do this by entering a trance...
Looking very much like a huge indoor plant, this fine specimen was spotted growing from the bank of the...
Zooming in on a Woolly Monkey spotted in the Colombian Amazon. Also known as woolly spider monkeys, they are...
Allamanda is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the family Apocynaceae, which is native to tropical America....
