Alex Hyde / Keeled garlic flowers (Allium carinatum subsp. carinatum) flowers on black background, Julian Alps, Slovenia. July

Andres M. Dominguez / Mirror orchid (Ophrys speculum) in the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, El Bosque, southern Spain, April.

Andres M. Dominguez / Orchid (Ophrys atlantica) Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, Benaocaz, southern Spain, May.

Andres M. Dominguez / Dark-red helleborine (Epipactis atrorubens) Linares, Cantabria, Spain, August.

Andres M. Dominguez / Orchid (Orchis langei) in sunset light, Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, southern Spain, May.

Andres M. Dominguez / Heart shaped lip dactylorhiza orchid (Orchis cordigera) in flower, Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, southern Spain, May.

Dong Lei / Flowers (Notholirion bulbuliferum) Basongcuo National Park, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Tibet, July.

Wim van den Heever / Quiver tree (Aloe dichotoma) with the Milky Way at night, and light pollution from town in the distance, Keetmanshoop, Namibia. Colours accentuated digitally.

Cyril Ruoso / Queen of the Andes (Puya raymondii) Cordillera Blanca Massif, Andes, Peru, November.

Sandesh Kadur / Female Golden langur (Trachypithecus geei) stripping fibres from and feeding on Coconut palm (Cocos nucifera) leaf fronds, Manas, Kokrajhar, Assam, India

Ernie Janes / Oyster Catcher (Haematopus ostralegus) in tulip (Tulipa) field, North Norfolk, May 2013

Jabruson / Old abandoned Oil Palm trees (Elaeis guineensis), on the edge of plantation limits, at the edge of Korup National Park, South West Cameroon.