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A Field Guide To The Plants and Flowers of Panama

Explore the incredible biodiversity of plants in Panama's tropical rainforests.

Some of the most exotic and prized flowering plants in Panama are the Hotlips, Heliconia and the Poor Man's Umbrella.

Over 10,000 species of native plants and 1,500 types of trees, many found nowhere ...more ↓

Alibertia patinoi 1
Alternanthera ficoidea 2
Amphitecna spathicalyx
Annona acuminata 3
Annona acutiflora
Annona pittieri 4
Annona spraguei
Aphelandra sinclairiana 3
Ardisia furfuracella
Ardisia maxonii
Ardisia opaca
Ardisia scheryi
Ardisia subsessilifolia
Aspidosperma darienense
Brunellia morii
Buddleja americana 5
Buddleja nitida 5
Buddleja skutchii 5
Calliandra riparia 6
Capparis discolor 7
Capparis panamensis
Carapichea ipecacuanha
Caryocar nuciferum
Caryodendron angustifolium
Casearia atlantica
Spiny Hackberry 8
Celtis iguanaea
Cinchona pubescens 9
Cissus anisophylla
soapbush 10
Clidemia hirta
Clusia croatii
Clusia cupulata
Clusia longipetiolata
Clusia osseocarpa
Columnea consanguinea 11
Columnea hirta
Copaifera panamensis
Damburneya smithii
creeping beggarweed 12
Desmodium incanum
Dorstenia choconiana
Dorstenia contrajerva 5
Eschweilera amplexifolia
Eschweilera integrifolia
Eschweilera jacquelyniae
Eschweilera longirachis
Eschweilera collinsii
Eschweilera pittieri
Eschweilera reversa
Eugenia truncata
Galium uncinulatum 5
Globe amaranth 13
Gomphrena globosa
Guarea macropetala
Guarea hoffmanniana
Guatteria tonduzii
Guatteria dolichopoda
Gustavia fosteri
Gustavia monocaulis
Gustavia superba 14
Gustavia verticillata
Gyranthera darienensis
Hebanthe eriantha
Hedyosmum burgerianum
Hedyosmum correanum
Hernandia didymantha
Hernandia stenura 15
Hidalgoa ternata 16
Hylocereus monacanthus
Ilex costaricensis
Ilex pallida
Inga allenii
Inga cuspidata
Inga dwyeri
Inga mucuna
Inga portobellensis
Inga saffordiana
Inga spiralis
Iogeton
Iryanthera megistocarpa
Laetia micrantha
Lonchocarpus calcaratus
Lonchocarpus chiricanus
Machaerium chambersii
Machaerium glabripes
Macrolobium pittieri
Magnolia panamensis
Mammea immansueta
Meliosma cordata
Meliosma linearifolia
Miconia albicans 5
Miconia lacera 17
Mouriri completens
Mouriri panamensis
Nectandra ramonensis
Ocotea glaucosericea
Ocotea viridiflora
Ormosia cruenta 18
Ormosia panamensis
Otoba acuminata
Papaya 19
Carica papaya
Parathesis seibertii
Parmentiera dressleri
Parmentiera morii
Passiflora guatemalensis 20
Perrottetia excelsa
Piper aduncum 21

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