Caption

Cloud forest are characterized by epiphytes, which are plants that grow on other plants. Nowhere is the abundance and diversity of epiphytes more apparent than in Costa Rica's famed Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve. I searched high and low for an orderly composition to show this phenomenon before I finally found this scene just off one of the hanging canopy bridges in the reserve

Date

Sep 14, 2014

Credit line

Photo12/ImageBROKER/Gregory Basco

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BRK26F83_306

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NA

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No

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Rights managed

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60.2Mb (20.1Mb) / 12.5in x 18.7in / 3744 x 5616 (300dpi)

Keywords

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