Geoff J Mckay
A cascade of orange blooms (Pleurothallis truncata)
This orchid has a clumping growth habit with wiry 6" stems supporting a single leathery elongated spade-like 3" leaf. Multiple spikes emerge from the sheath at the leaf base, these 3" to 4" spikes usually lie on top of the leaf and produce a cascade of blooms over its edge, each chain of many globular 1/8" flowers is brilliant orange, resembles a beautiful string of bright orange BB's, winter/spring bloomer. (www.aos.org/orchids/orchids-a-to-z/letter-p/pleurothallis...).
Photographed in the Peter Black Conservatory, Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North.
A cascade of orange blooms (Pleurothallis truncata)
This orchid has a clumping growth habit with wiry 6" stems supporting a single leathery elongated spade-like 3" leaf. Multiple spikes emerge from the sheath at the leaf base, these 3" to 4" spikes usually lie on top of the leaf and produce a cascade of blooms over its edge, each chain of many globular 1/8" flowers is brilliant orange, resembles a beautiful string of bright orange BB's, winter/spring bloomer. (www.aos.org/orchids/orchids-a-to-z/letter-p/pleurothallis...).
Photographed in the Peter Black Conservatory, Victoria Esplanade, Palmerston North.