The first is a Carnivorous Pitcher Plant - I am equally fascinated and repulsed by it, but you have to admire it's cunning to trap insects into a pool of liquid rather than the boring old way of just taking nutrients from the soil.
The second is a Lobster Claw Heliconia, a relative of the banana, it provides the main source of nectar for humming birds and a very stylish tent for the minuscule Honduran white bat.
Third and finally, Stag's Horn Ferns (circled in red), which grow on trees or in very little soil, propagate by producing spores and 'offsets' i.e. bits that break off the mother plant, and have been around since the dinosaurs.
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