Flora of Colombia Flora of Colombia The Flora of Colombia is characterized by 130,000 species of plants that have been described within Colombian territory. The national flower of Colombia is the orchid "Cattleya trianae" which was named after the Colombian naturalist José Jerónimo Triana. The orchid was selected by botanist Emilio Robledo, in representation of the Colombian Academy of History to determine the most representative flowering plant of Colombia. He described it as one of the most beautiful flowers in the world and selected "Cattleya trianae" as National symbol. The national tree of Colombia is the palm "Ceroxylon quindiuense" (Quindío wax palm) which
Portia labiata specimens. The following table shows the hunting performance of adult females. In addition to "P. labiata", the table shows for comparison the hunting performances of "P. africana", "P. schultzi" and three regional variants of "P. fimbriata". A female "P. labiata" often hangs a capture web from pliant stems and leaves of shrubs and lower branches of trees, rather than from rocks and tree trunks. Males of "Portia" do not build capture webs. A female "P. labiata" more often pursues small jumping spiders and web spiders than larger prey. While it more often catches small jumping spiders than larger ones, it