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.
A common in flower in Colombia. If you know the name of this species, please leave a comment.
Zooming in on a Woolly Monkey spotted in the Colombian Amazon. Also known as woolly spider monkeys, they are...
Buttress roots support the bigger trees in the Amazon Rainforest. Their roots are usually shallow, so the buttress system...
Shaman in the Amazon are known for inducing altered states of consciousness. They do this by entering a trance...
View of taller trees piercing the canopy of the Amazon Rainforest in Colombia. Such trees are called ’emergents’.
A section of flooded rain forest in the Amazonas Region of Colombia. Up to one-third of Colombia resides in...
Two children from the Amazonas Region in Colombia. One third of the country lies in this region in what...
Emergents are trees that rises above the forest canopy. This specimen was photographed in the Amazon rainforest of southern...
