Colombia’s Inirida flower: From ‘weed’ to emblem for UN meeting

COLOMBIA — When Ruben Dario Carianil began cultivating the unusual, pointy Inirida flower in the Colombian Amazon 10 years ago, his relatives made fun of him for growing “weeds.” Today, the 63-year-old Carianil, of the Curripako tribe, grows tons of the curious blooms on a plot outside Inirida – the jungle city of 30,000 people
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