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Cat's claw
This vine produces tendrils resembling the claws of a cat. Its flowers are yellow. Its long thin fruit may be up to 1 m long.
Plant formVine, climbing shrubFamilyBignoniaceae -
Cigar Calathea, Cigar plant
This plant grows to 2 to 3 m. Its attractive leaves are 50 to 100 cm long and 25 to 60 cm wide. Its inflorescence consists of several spikes 10 cm long with red-brown bracts and yellow flowers.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyMarantaceae -
Cocoa tree
This small tree reaches its full height of 4.5 to 7.5 m after 8 to 10 years of growth. A young tree may grow 0.9 to 1.5 m before its first branches appear.
Plant formBroadleaf treeFamilyMalvaceae -
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 -
Flat-leaved vanilla
Flat-leaved vanilla is a species of climbing orchid native to the neotropics.
Plant formHerbaceous climbing plantFamilyOrchidaceae -
Friedrichsthal's peace lily
This sturdy plant, without an obvious stem, grows over 1 m tall. Its leaf stalks are 30 to 60 cm long. Its leaves are 28 to 70 cm long and 7 to 22 cm wide.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyAraceae -
Giant granadilla
This robust climbing plant grows to a height of 10 m. Its stems are squarish, and its tendrils allow it to cling to trees and shrubs.
Plant formHerbaceous climbing plantFamilyPassifloraceae -
Golden dwarf heliconia, Yellow heliconia
This plant can grow to almost 1.5 m. Its large leaves are opposite. Its terminal flowers are hermaphroditic, each with male and female flowers.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyHeliconiaceae