More strange and unusual plants

Not only are the rainforest hikes shady, but the plants are super interesting to look at. The flowers are unique, and the trees grow in all sorts of crazy ways. Banyans are not the only ones whose roots grow above ground. It’s been fun and interesting to see such diversity.

This fern starts as one giant spiral. It looks dead, but it is not. It will open up to reveal many other spiraled plants. Each one of those opens up to show spiral leaves. Eventually, when all the spirals open it is a multi-stemmed fern fern plant.

This was from one of our hikes yesterday. It shows what the plant looks like when it starts to open.

This is Himalayan ginger.

It starts as the stalk in the foreground and then opens to reveal the beautiful and unique flower in the background.