There is a moment in the independent comic book Cerebus where the title character comes face-to-face with a giant stone aardvark being worshipped as a god. I was trying for the same low comedy; a vine-festooned temple in the darkest jungle, where a strangely indolent-looking hog is offered fruits and nuts in a golden trough.
Most images with heavy foliage rely on Painter and post-proccessing. Bryce 5 offers a simple tree lab, and there are third-party applications like Tree Druid -- but the results are large files that consume memory and drive render times up. This one uses a few plant models and some picture objects. Many of these plants came from "3dPlants.com."
In any case. The temple is all Bryce. Negative booleans (that is to say, "antimatter" objects that remove their own volume from any object that intersects them) to cut a hole for the stairs. The stairs themselves used Bryce's "multi-replicate" function; duplicate one stair step, adjust the position carefully, then replicate both the object and the transformations a large number of times. In this case, enough times to generate a whole flight of stairs.
If I were doing it again I would create the temple outside Bryce so I could map the textures more accurately. The mosiac was applied with a bump map, then the Bryce preset Sandstone on the whole mess, then a few negative boolean rocks to chip out cracks in the stone.
The brazier and torch flames are picture objects. To make these work, you need to set the Ambient Color (in the Sky Menu) to white or near-white. Then, for the glowing object, set the Ambience high, diffusion off, receive and cast shadows off. Sometimes the Additive mode or Light Object works better (these options are in the Materials Lab). In general, though, you can treat a glowing object as a normal material with a very high Ambience.
One of the first gourmet coffees around this area was Peet's, and their Mocha-Java blend was and is greatly popular. According to an old friend of mine, though, "Mocha-Java" always sounded to him like "..some jungle god they'd sacrifice Hedy Lamar to in an old Republic serial."
