A place so dense with flora and fauna that the climate was cool and wildlife pranced around, unafraid of humans.
"My first security envelope collages were small and depicted scenes of dense grasses and flora that echoed the material's use as a camouflage for private and sensitive documents," explains Phillips.
Electron microscopy of enteral feeding tube inner wall revealed that a dense, and morphologically diverse flora was present (Fig 3 and 4).
Plant dense ground coverage.
The weather system creates a cloud forest at the peak, so views aren't guaranteed - and indeed for much of our walk we're in a damp, dense mist - but orchids and other flora are in vibrant supply.
Small patches of the pteridosperm-dominated wetland flora were interspersed within the dense cordaitalean forest, restricted to landforms that acted as waterholes during the dry season, such as perennial lakes, stagnant ponds, and seasonally active interfluve channels.
In parts, the ground flora has been crowded out by dense areas of rhododendron, but a phased removal of these has started, to allow more breathing space for less aggressive native plants and to increase light levels around the brook.
With a park ranger pointing out natural features, we traversed a cross section of the geography and flora of the Alaska Peninsula, winding through dense stands of white spruce interspersed with birch, willow, cottonwood and scrubby alder, up into an area of low-growing tundra dotted with purple clumps of lupine.
The great majority of the area of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands is covered with dense tropical forest, which supports a broad spectrum of flora and fauna.
Writing in the Guardian, Armitage chose it as one of his books of 2011, saying that "like the honey he describes, 'disconcerting, / solid broth / of forest flora full of fox', these are poems so dense and rich you could stand a spoon in them".
