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Plant Spotlights

Browse all plant spotlights from Survival through Adaptation.

Plant Spotlights

Succulent plant with reddish green leaves. The leaves have yellow spine-like growths on the edges and on the back.

Aloe mitriformis

Plant with pale green cylindrical stems and white spine-like growths.

Cylindropuntia munzii

Plant with large green vertical leaves grows in front of a concrete wall. The plant is surrounded by shorter dark plants.

Johannesteijsmanni altifrons

Lily blossom sprinkled with water droplets

Nelumbo nucifera

Large succulent with bright green stems.

Opuntia ficus-indica

Plant with long overlapping dark green leaves with spine-like growths on the edges. The plant has stick-like roots connecting the leaves to the soil.

Pandanus pristis

Plant with its roots attached to a branch. The plant is growing downward.

Myrmecodia tuberosa

Plant attached to a concrete wall. The plant has three vertical leaves.

Anthurium warocqueanum

Spherical plant with ridges and yellow spine-like growths

Echinocactus grusonii

Tree growing in front of a concrete wall. The tree is growing out of the frame of the photo. A green epiphyte is attached to the plant.

Cryosophila albida

Green leaves covered in thin red growths. The red growths have liquid on the tips.

Drosera capensis

A pair of leaves that are yellowish green on the outside and red on the inside. The leaves have red spine-like growths on the edges., and these growths are partially interlocked.

Dionaea muscipula

Pitcher-like plant with reddish brown rim and a spotted interior.

Nepenthes truncata