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Palmilla (Spanish)
This multi-stemmed palm grows up to 5 to 6 m tall. It has a dozen or so 2 m long palm leaves, divided into 16 to 20 lanceolate segments of different sizes.
Plant formPalmFamilyArecaceae -
Panama-hat plant
This stemless plant forms dense clumps of foliage. The approximately 1 metre wide fan-shaped leaves are supported by a 1 to 2 metre long stem.
Plant formPalmFamilyCyclanthaceae -
Panicled aster
The long stem of this aster is multi-branched and 60 to 250 cm long. Its lance-shaped leaves are entire or only slightly toothed. The rays of its flowers are white or very light mauve.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyAsteraceae (Compositae) -
Paper birch, White birch
This 15 to 25 m tall tree has an often curved trunk and a narrowly oval, open crown.
Plant formBroadleaf treeFamilyBetulaceae -
Peach palm tree, Pupunha
This large palm grows up to 4 to 18 m tall. Its trunk is long and slender, 10 to 25 cm in diameter. The trunk and different parts of the leaves are covered with brown or black spines.
Plant formPalmFamilyArecaceae -
Pearly everlasting
This 50 cm high plant has an upright stem that branches only near the flowers. It has alternate, elongated, narrow, toothless leaves. They are covered in long white hairs.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyAsteraceae (Compositae) -
Pin cherry, wild red cherry
This generally small tree may grow up to 15 m tall. Its fairly straight trunk is covered with shiny, smooth, reddish-brown bark.
Plant formBroadleaf treeFamilyRosaceae -
Pink corydalis
This hairless plant is a dull bluish-green in colour. Its stem grows 10 to 60 cm tall. Its leaves are deeply divided. It has many flowers, each 10 to 16 mm long.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyPapaveraceae -
Pink lady's slipper
This rhizomatous plant grows 30 to 45 cm tall. It has 2 large, 15 to 20 cm long leaves. They are stalkless and grow at the base of the plant. It has a spectacular pink and sometimes white flower.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyOrchidaceae -
Pink trumpet tree, pink poui
This large tree grows 5 to 35 m tall, with a trunk up to 1 m in diameter. It bark is quite deeply furrowed. Its deciduous leaves have 3 to 5 leaflets 5 to 22 cm long.
Plant formBroadleaf treeFamilyBignoniaceae -
Pitch apple
This tree grows to 7 to 18 m on average and is easily recognizable by its wide, dense crown. In Colombia, it sometimes reaches 30 m tall. It has aerial roots.
Plant formBroadleaf treeFamilyClusiaceae -
Porcupine-grass, bottlebrush grass
The stem of this plant grows 60 to 120 cm tall. Its leaves are 6 to 12 mm wide and rough on the upper side. Its flowers form an 8 to 17 cm-long spike.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyPoaceae (Gramineae)