Rainforest (IMAGE)

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Rainforest

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This photo is of the canopy of a lowland hill dipterocarp forest in Sinharaja taken from the top of a lowland hill -- Sinhagala (about 800m asl). It shows different species in different stages of leaf flushing (light green) and early fruiting (pinkish-red) stages but none in the picture in bloom.

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Nimal Gunatilleke, Universität Peradeniya

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