Crazy Flora

Here is an example of some of the awesomely diverse plants that Jorie and I saw on our hike. You can see that the leaf below, in addition to being large, is covered with thorns. I've seen fuzzy leaves and rubbery leaves, and leaves that were big enough to wrap Bentz in, but I had never up to this point seen leaves with large stiff spines growing out of them. It reminded me of some movie with similar leaves, except the thorns in the movie were dripping with a venom that left the victim paralyzed in minutes. Needless to say, we didn't prick our fingers just to find out if they were poisonous. Also below is a picture with Jorie to give you a picture of the size of the plant.