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Fruits and Seeds

Each year, TEAM site manager Patricia Alvarez measures almost 4000 trees and vines in the remote, intact core of Peru's Manú National Park. To illustrate the astounding biodiversity found here, we spent an evening making portraits of 40 fruits and seeds that Patricia had gathered.

Swartzia sp. (fruit).
Ampelocera ruizii (immature fruit).
Psittacanthus cucullaris (fruit).
Quararibea wittii (fruit).
Rinorea viridifolia (immature fruit).
Paullinia hystrix (fruit).
Ziziphus cinnamomum (seedling).
Guatteria sp. (fruit).
Combretum sp. #1 (fruit).
Phytelephas macrocarpa (seed).
Byttneria asterotricha (old fruit).
Apeiba membranacea (fruit).
Cedrela odorata (fruit).
Calatola costarriscensis (seed).
Pterocarpus rohrii aff. (fruit).
Caraipa densifolia (fruit).
Terminalia oblonga (fruit).
Odontadenia sp. (seed).
Acacia sp. (fruit).
Pristimera sp. (seed).
Myroxylon balsamum (fruit).
Attalea butyraceae (old seeds).
Guazuma crinita (fruit).
Ceiba pentandra (seeds covered in "cotton").
Combretum sp. #2 (fruit).
Iriartea deltoidea (seed).
Swietenia macrophylla (seeds).
Bignoniaceae sp. #1.
Clarisia biflora (fruit).
Pseudomalmea diclina (fruit).
Geonoma sp. (fruit).
Pseudomalmea diclina (fruit).
Bignoniaceae sp. #2 (fruit).
Dipteryx micrantha (fruit).
Garcinia madruno (fruit).
Genipa americana (fruit).
Casearia sp. (fruit).
Inga sp. (fruit).
Bignoniaceae sp. #3 (fruit).
Swietenia macrophylla (fruit).
Fruit and seeds.
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