Tracks
Phalaenopsis fasciata Habitus by epicphals on Flickr.
Epiphytica Favoriten auf Flickr
UK in 3D: Pictures from England
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Aerangis distincta (via Thompson’s Orchids)
What’s in a name: the distinctas
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Bored this morning..decided to play around with my orchids…I love orchids.
Top: the Dracula Raven orchid (dracula lenore); bottom: its parents — left: the Bleeding Sunset orchid (dracula vampira); right: the Roezl’s Dracula orchid (dracula roezlii)
From San Francisco’s SFGate.com:
The Pacific Orchid Exposition has been going strong for 53 years, and, even though it showcases plants whose blooms can be long-lasting, there’s nothing static about the orchids that thrill thousands of attendees every February. This year’s show, Thursday through Sunday at Fort Mason, will include at least one new orchid among the thousands on display and for sale.
San Francisco Orchid Society member John Leathers will be showing a new black orchid that bloomed for the first time a month ago. Unofficially named ‘Dracula Raven,’ the black bloom with the pink lip, is a cross between ‘Dracula roezlii’ and ‘Dracula vampira.’ Its clonal name is (aptly) ‘Lenore.’
Dracula orchids come from the Andes cloud forests of South America.
These high-elevations orchids are difficult to grow outside their native habitat because they require specific temperature, humidity and fog levels, making San Francisco one of the few places outside the Andes that the plant finds hospitable.
The ‘Dracula vampira,’ with its dark-striped white flowers, was discovered in Ecuador in 1978. The Dracula roezlii, discovered in Colombia in 1874, is also a dark-spotted white flower.
Coolest #orchids I’ve ever seen!! #jstgermain (Taken with Instagram)
In Bloom. At Kuala Lumpur Orchid Garden.
Orchids of some kind at the Phipps Botanical Garden in Pittsburgh.