Panama - Gustavia superba (Explored - May 2, 2016 #75)

            Panama - Gustavia superba (Lecythidaceae), taken on the aerial tram journey through the rainforest canopy in Gamboa, a small town located 30 km north of Panama City on the east bank of the Panama Canal, just north of the Chagres River, and home to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). As a size reference, the ant was a good inch long. 

Gustavia superba is a tropical tree native to South and Central America. It was first discovered in Panama in 1873 by Osbert Salvin, an English naturalist best known for co-authoring a 52 volume encyclopaedia on the natural history of Central America known as the 'Biologia Centrali-Americana'. It grows naturally as an under-storey tree and can reach heights of between 5 and 10 metres. The sweet-fetid scented flowers appear in the spring and each one will last just for one day. They are approximately 12 cm across when fully open and are born directly at the wood, a botanical term known as cauliflory. It produces rounded pear-shaped fruit inside which are several large seeds about 4 cm in diameter. These are dispersed by agoutis, one of a number of species of Central and South American rodents.

A hotbed of biodiversity, Panama's tropical habitats are home to some of the most diverse and exotic species of plants and animals on earth. Covering almost half the country's land surface are immense tracks of rainforests, mangrove wetlands and mountain cloud forests. In all, the country hosts over 10,444 different types of plant species including 1,200 orchid varieties, 678 fern species and 1,500 varieties of trees, as well as 255 species of mammals and 972 indigenous bird species, according to Panama’s National Society for the Protection of Nature.

Taken in: Panamá / Colón / Gamboa (show map)

Taken on: March 21, 2016

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