Traveling on both sides of the Costa Rica, as well as right through the middle, showed me an abundance of different flowers. Since each national park seemed to have a completely new set of flowers I have decided to make a separate for every destination and park. Let’s start with the Caribbean side, where I headed first to Tortuguero.
While waiting for the water taxi to Tortuguero I saw these high blooming bushes. Not really sure if these are flowers, now I rather think (after lots of educational visits in different national parks) that the colorful leaves should attract pollinators and the flowers themselves are super small. At the time I didn’t know that though and therefore I only have a picture of the leaves. Or maybe there isn’t even a flower. Honestly, Costa Rica has so many different species, I didn’t know most of it. So here we go with the first post of flowers. Yours, Polybert
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looks like a flower but not sure @La Pavona
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white and pink flowers with lots of buds @Tortuguero
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this red flower looks almost fake @Tortuguero
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dark purple leaves to attract pollinators @Tortuguero
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single white flower still wet from the rain @Tortuguero
I am very sure that this red flower doesn’t grow on trees, but that’s the way it looked from below.
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a red flower growing on a tree @Tortuguero
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red leaves, just not a flower @Tortuguero
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bird-of-paradise flower @Tortuguero
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this is a flower which rarely blooms I was told @Tortuguero
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pink flower closed @Tortuguero
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pink flower open @Tortuguero
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tiny flower on long stem @Tortuguero
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wilting flowers @Tortuguero
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long stemmed dark pink flower @Tortuguero