Below are photos of two flowers that are found only in this particular forest, and below that are two photos of giant ferns that were at least 30-40 feet tall. It was hard to photograph many of the plants because everything was so overgrown and dense that you could not isolate a particular plant.
The flower above is the Impatiens kilimanjarii is also known as the elephant’s trunk flower because of its shape. It is a tiny flower unique to the area, but it was easy to spot because if is one of the few things in the rain forest that is not a shade of green.
The Mountain gladiolus above is also unique to Kilimanjaro
We finally came across a giant fern (above) that was easy to photograph. This is a small specimen though -- see the larger ones below.
All of the not-so-straight trunks are giant ferns -- easily 30-40 feet tall but still growing below the forest canopy.