When Ruben Dario Carianil began cultivating the unusual, pointy Inirida flower in the Colombian Amazon ten years ago, his relatives made fun of him for growing "weeds." Today, he grows tons of the curious blooms who are soon to become the emblem of COP16, a UN biodiversity conference.
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00:00This is the production area.
00:02The production area is where the animals are bred.
00:04The production area is where the animals are bred.
00:06This is a big bull.
00:08This is a big bull.
00:10It is ready to be cut.
00:12It is ready to be cut.
00:26Now we take advantage of this area
00:28for the production.
00:36For us, nature,
00:38the jungle is life.
00:40That's where we start.
00:42That's where we,
00:44the indigenous people,
00:46respect it.
00:48And we have to go
00:50in coordination
00:52with nature
00:54without harming it.
00:58While the traffic of animals
01:00moves across the jungle,
01:02we spend time
01:04surrounding nature.
01:10Here we rescue
01:12small carps
01:14of our appetite.
01:22Because they're very big.
01:24They fill the majority
01:26Oh, my God.
01:28Oh, my God.
01:29I'm so sorry.
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01:38The flower of Iniria is called the Eternal Flower, because it's eternal.
01:42Because it never ends.
01:44Because it gets dehydrated and it goes to a coffee-like color.
01:51You can see it.
01:52and we'll have flowers that are 25 years old.
01:55So it's used a lot for eternal love,
01:58for couples who live a long time.
02:19Each flower could cost a dollar and a half,
02:22but it depends on the client and the country.
02:26Because we're also interested in getting to know the flower.