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Close view of cavendishia tarapotana showing glossy red, overlapping bracts that sheath a cluster of pendent, white tubular flowers banded faint pink and finishing in small five-toothed tips among evergreen foliage
Cavendishia tarapotana

Native to the northern Andes, it grows as a hemiepiphytic shrub that clambers through the lower canopy and along forest margins. Plants anchor on trunks and branches and send woody shoots outward; short axillary peduncles produce tight, nodding clusters that develop beneath the leaves. The inflorescences are distinctive: thick, imbricate bracts colored crimson to wine-red enclose several waxy, finger-like corollas that hang downward; each tube is porcelain white with a pale rose band near the mouth and ends in a minute, five-lobed “star.” Individual clusters open sequentially and can remain ornamental for an extended period because the bracts persist after older flowers drop. Field botanists note that the pendent. Photographed in Ecuador.


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