Photos to download and print of trees, leaves, flowers etc. These photos are free for you to download, print, use as desk top backgounds, etc. (for personal or educational use) for yourself and to give away to friends. Please do not use them for commercial purposes without my permission, or without acknowledgement of the photographer.
In particular, check out the photo of the amazing Titan Arum Lily, and photos of other members of the bizarre arum lily family.
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The bizarre flowers of the Poison Arrow Vine from tropical Africa – long tendrils hang down from the flowers. Strophanthus preussii. Photo: David Clode.
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The beautiful scented flower of Gustavia superba, native to South American rain forests. Photo: David Clode
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Some bizarre flowers in the Arum lily family, also known as Aroids, below. Many of these flowers look like a dead animal, and some give off pulses of an unpleasant rotting meat smell. This attracts the pollinators, usually numerous species of flies and carrion beetles.

Dracontium gigas. Flowers periodically give off an unpleasant odour, which attracts pollenators such as flies and carrion beetles. Cairns Botanic gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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Flesh fly visiting the unpleasant smelling Snakeskin Lily Dracontium gigas (the flower on the right in the photo above). Cairns Botanic Gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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Aroid, Amorphophallus bulbiferum if I remember correctly. Cairns Botanic Gardens. Photo: David Clode.
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Back to pretty flowers…
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Tecomaria capensis (Tecoma capensis). Flowers usually orange, this is the less common yellow form. My garden in Cairns. Photo: David Clode.
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The unusual bromeliad, Quesnelia marmorata cv ‘Tim Plowman’. Photo Cairns botanic gardens, David Clode.
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Licuala cordata.
Johannesteijsmannia magnifica. The undersides of the huge fan palm leaves are white.
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The upper side of a water lily leaf, Euryale ferox, native to China, India and Japan.
Water lily, Euryale ferox. Underside of the leaf.
Water lily.
Below: a peaceful scene at the Cattana wetlands, Cairns.
Backlit new leaf of Coccoloba pubescens, the Mountain Grape, from Central America.
Leaf veins, Coccoloba pubescens.
Coccoloba pubescens.
Coccoloba pubescens.
Coccoloba pubescens, Mountain Grape, black and white manipulated photo.
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Yellow-bellied Sunbird.
Orange Zinnias, growing in a vegetable garden in Cairns.
Flambouyant foliage, Caladium.
Flambouyant foliage, Croton
Flambouyant foliage, Croton.
Flambouyant foliage, Begonia.
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Leaf stem of Amorphophallus variabilis x A. decus-silvae. This is a young leaf stem, smooth and about 5cm in diameter. In the rain forest, there are many insects and animals looking for soft young growth to eat, and this camouflage mimics an old, lichen-covered tree stem, which may protect it from being eaten. photo: David Clode.
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The presence of a wide diversity of lichens is often an indication of an unpolluted atmosphere. growing on a tree trunk in Kuranda, Australia. Photo: David Clode.
Photo: David Clode.
Lichen photo.
Lichen growing on a fig tree, Kuranda.
Mosses and lichens on a palm tree.
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