Joey Santore on Instagram: "Living Rock Cactus - Ariocarpus fissuratus. The thick cuticle on this species helps protect it from the dry air and heat, helps protect it from the intense UV of this mostly barren rocky landscape, and also helps it look like a rock so that it blends in with the grey and white limestone geology in which it grows. This species - and most of the 8 or 9 species of Ariocarpus - can only ever be found occurring on limestone or closely affiliated calcareous (calcium carbona

Joey Santore on Instagram: "Carnivorous plants thriving at 11,700 feet elevation on the equator in a kind of habitat known as Páramo. Pinguicula calyptrata, from the family Lentibulariaceae"

Joey Santore on Instagram: "Meet the genus Erythroxylum, a distant relative of Willows and Poinsettias that produces one of the most well-known and infamous narcotic alkaloids in the world..."

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