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Close-up of Ceratostema lanigerum flowers showing two pendulous, tubular blooms covered in fine hairs with bright red corollas fading to black tips, hanging beside a fuzzy green leaf
Ceratostema lanigerum

Ceratostema lanigerum is a rare cloud-forest shrub from Ecuadror. The species has dense “woolly” indument on the calyx and corolla (reflected in the epithet lanigerum), and by corollas that are bright red with distinctly darkened tips. Photographed in northeastern Ecuador in the foothills of the Andes as it approaches the Amazon.


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