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I think I got a bit carried away photographing orchids at the Singapore Orchid Garden within the Singapore Botanic Garden. Certainly worth a visit!
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A beautiful Dendrobium Orchid, shot at the New York Botanical Garden's Tenth Annual Orchid Show in the Bronx. The variety may be "Karen?" The show runs this year through April 22, 2012.
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Almost all my phalaenopsis orchids are in flower. This is just one of the more stunning. Natural daylight.
The centrepiece of the 2022 Orchid Festival at Kew Gardens during a special after-dark show with a live band (just visible behind the "sun" on the right).
My orchids are remarkable.
This exquisite little one was lovingly brought back from the brink of death by my mother and is as gorgeous as when I got it a couple of years back.
@ Um pouco de conhecimento....
ORQUÍDEA, SEXO E MAGIA
Diz a lenda que bruxas usavam as raízes tuberosas das orquídeas (semelhantes a testículos humanos) no preparo de poções mágicas: as frescas para promover o amor, as secas para provocar paixões.
Os herbalistas do século XVII chamavam-nas de Satírias, em referência ao deus Sátyros, da mitologia grega, habitante das florestas, que, segundo os pagãos, tinha chifres curtos e pés e pernas de bode. Na língua portuguesa, a palavra sátiro também é sinônimo de devasso, libidinoso. De acordo com a lenda, Orchis, filho de um sátiro com uma nínfa, foi assassinado pelas Bacantes, sacerdotisas de Baco, deus do vinho. Graças às preces de seu pai, Orchis teria sido transformado em uma flor, que agora leva o seu nome: orquídea.
Desde a Idade Média, as orquídeas são populares por suas supostas propriedades afrodisíacas. Preparados especiais utilizando as raízes tuberosas e folhas carnosas de algumas espécies foram tidas como estimulantes sexuais e até mesmo capazes de auxiliar na produção de bebês do sexo masculino. Tornaram-se assim, sinônimo de fertilidade e virilidade.
I find orchids very awkward to photograph, always struggling to achieve a frame-filling composition. I deliberately went for a softness to this, hope you like it.
A touch of ring-flash in addition to natural window light.
These bloom so beautifully each year. A dear patient of mine gave them to me years ago and I still have yet to discover the variety it is. I have searched on line but can't seem to find it.
Cattleya gaskelliana var. alba
A framed print of this photograph is currently part of the Orchids & Hydrangeas exhibit at Powell Gardens in Kansas City. An art exhibit I learned about here at Flickr.
Preparation for Orchids Festival 2017 www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/whats-on/festivals/orchids-...</a
The pink flowers are most likely the common spotted orchid and the greenish ones are the common Twayblade. Both of these are happily growing in a local nature reserve. I was delighted to see so many Twayblades in the field. I remember being shown round the field nearly 40 years ago and they were difficult to find but now there are several patches of them with many flower spikes. I think it can be said that the management system that's in place is very successful.
This is virtually sooc just minimal tweaking and conversion from raw in Serif.