cecropias

After winding beneath the shade of ficuses, tahuaris, nipa palms, and cecropias, it enters the Amazon by five mouths.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

The raft was then in the black waters of the Rio Negro, near rather a high bluff covered with cecropias with buds of reddish-brown, and palisaded with stiff-stalked reeds called

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

On most of them the foliage was thick; among the exceptions were the cecropias, growing by preference on new-formed alluvial soil bare of other trees, whose rather scanty leaf bunches were, as I was informed, the favorite food of sloths.

V. Up the River of Tapirs 1914

On most of them the foliage was thick; among the exceptions were the cecropias, growing by preference on new-formed alluvial soil bare of other trees, whose rather scanty leaf bunches were, as I was informed, the favorite food of sloths.

Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

After winding beneath the shade of ficuses, tahuaris, nipa palms, and cecropias, it enters the

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866

These, again, were covered by creeping plants; and thus literally parasites grew on parasites; and on these parasites, again, leaves of every form were also seen -- some beautifully divided, and others of vast size and fanlike shape, like those of the cecropias; and numerous others of intermediate forms added to the countless variety.

The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

As we gaze upwards, we see against the clear blue sky the finely divided foliage, many of the largest of the forest-trees having leaves as delicate as those of the trembling mimosa: among them appear the huge palmate leaves of the cecropias, and the oval glossy ones of the clusias, countless others of intermediate forms adding to the variety of its scenery, -- the bright sunshine playing on the upper portion of the foliage, while a solemn gloom reigns among the dark columns which support this wondrous roof of verdure.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

a high bluff covered with cecropias with buds of reddish-brown, and palisaded with stiff-stalked reeds called _ "froxas," _ of which the

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866