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Common duckweed
This tiny herbaceous plant is less than 0.5 cm in diameter. It is easy to see colonies growing on the water's surface.
Plant formHerbaceous aquatic plantFamilyLemnaceae -
Common juniper
This shrubby, sprawling coniferous shrub grows 25 cm to 1.5 m tall. The common juniper typically grows as a low, shrub-like plant without a central trunk.
Plant formConiferFamilyCupressaceae -
Common polypody, rock polypody
This short (30 cm) fern grows in small, dense colonies. It produces only one type of fronds, which remain on the plant throughout the winter and until the middle of the following summer.
Plant formFernFamilyPolypodiaceae -
Common yarrow
The slightly hairy stems of this perennial plant are 30 to 60 cm tall. The leaves are divided into many segments.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyAsteraceae (Compositae) -
Coolwort, foamflower
This plant may grow up to 30 cm tall. Its toothed, shallow-lobed leaves are heart-shaped and resemble those of mountain maple. They have a long stalk and are mostly borne at the base of the plant.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilySaxifragaceae -
Coquillo palm tree, Coquito palm tree
This attractive spiny-trunked palm tree can reach 1.5 to 8 m in height and 10 to 17 cm in diameter.
Plant formPalmFamilyArecaceae -
Costa Rica strangler fig tree
This is a mid-sized tree that can reach 30 m. Its trunk is often hollow, with the centre representing the space left by the host tree that has rotted away.
Plant formBroadleaf treeFamilyMoraceae -
Costa Rican bamboo palm
This palm grows in clumps, reaching 3 to 8 m. Each trunk is 2 to 8 cm across and bears from 4 to 6 long palm leaves, 1 to 2 m long, with 20 to 26 leaflets each. Its fruit is black.
Plant formPalmFamilyArecaceae -
Dagua river dumb cane
This approximately 1.2 m tall plant produces about ten large, leathery, oval leaves, borne on a fairly long stalk.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyAraceae -
Dancing bulb
This stemless epiphytic plant forms dense colonies on trees. Its leaves are normally longer than its inflorescences and are covered in tiny, thin, red or green scales.
Plant formHerbaceous epiphytic plantFamilyBromeliaceae -
Downy serviceberry
This low shrub, tall shrub or tree may grow 5 to 10 m tall. Its twisted trunk is covered in thin, smooth, greyish bark marked by vertical brown lines. It becomes rough with age.
Plant formBroadleaf treeFamilyRosaceae -
Eastern hemlock, Canada hemlock
This 19 to 25 m tall tree has flattened 1 to 2 cm long needles, each with a petiole, arranged in 2 ranks on the twig.
Plant formConiferFamilyPinaceae