Come Up del Sur

Traveling & Paragliding in South America

A Heart for Plants ๐ŸŒฑ

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Katy

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Cacoa plant

I am a big plant lover and there are so many fantastic plants here in Middle- and South America that we only – if at all – know as room plants (without flowers) or from products we use or eat. Since Simon is not really sharing my enthusiasm when encountering such a plant, I will share it here and maybe some of you will appreciate it ๐Ÿ™‚ I will update this page from time to time.

Crops

Non-Food

Cotton plant
Wild Cotton
Cocoa plant
Cacoa plant

Food

a wild ananas plant
Wild Ananas (piรฑa)
Wild ananas plant, a coast in the background
It’s just growing below the takeoff in Dominical
Banana plant
Banana plant (no clue if it”s a cook or sweet banana)
Starfruit plant closeup
Starfruit (Carambola)
Starfruit plant
Starfruit can be eaten just like an apple
Guanabana plant
Soursop (Guanรกbana) Often offered as juice, I want to try it soon
Avocado plant closeup
Avocados (Aguacate)
Mango plant
Mangos (I didn’t know that they grow in clusters). The locals also eat them with salt when still green
Coconut
Coconuts
Coconut palm trees
Coconut palm trees

“Room” plants

Even with Google Lens, I find it difficult to correctly identify the plants so I mostly didn’t add captions. If you know some of the plans, please feel free to leave a comment below ๐Ÿ™

green plant
green plant
Catus plant
green plant
monstera kind plant
Monstera plant
Monstera
Monstera climbing a pillar
Cool how it climbs the pillar

Everything else

Some invasive plant
it looks so cool
Maybe it’s a calabash plant
Here you can see the work of ants (1)
Crazy how they cut away so much (2)
Whole branches are basically leaveless (3)