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Taken at the Pacific Orchid Exposition in San Francisco. The Pacific Orchid Exposition boasts over 150,000 beautiful orchids from around the world and is the largest orchid show in the United States.
This is a re-flowering of a seedling from a flask I purchased from Tying Shin Orchids. The colour is a really nice dark yellow. The form isn't great, and it is small (ns 4.3 cm) but it is one of the better ones from this entire cross.
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Orchids belong to a very different plant family, and because they are thousands of species of the world's largest groups of flowering plants. Blooming orchids come in literally hundreds of different shapes and sizes, from small to very large flowers. Combine flowers in dozens of different colors
An Orchid that was give to Jane for her birthday, I nicked it to take some shots against the evening sky and used a torch to light it up,
The Wangaratta Orchid Show is on this weekend.
St. Patrick's Hall, Wangaratta.
Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th September.
Every spring I try (weather permitting) to make a run up to King Mountain to photograph the tiny Calypso Orchids. They are truly gorgeous little flowers.
Jan, likes going there because we usually have a fire at the campground and roast hot dogs and marshmallows. One thing she especially enjoys.
One of my daughters has been tending her orchid plant and it has just come back into bloom. Earley, Reading, Berkshire, UK.
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This is one of the many very pretty orchids that we found around the hotel we stayed at in Dominican Republic. Orchid are one of my favourite flowers because of the variety you can get plus the colour combinations.
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Early Marsh Orchid.
Dactylorhiza incarnata.
Windrush.
Very excited over this....
When I found some peculiar seed heads last September I wondered, could they be orchids? Nothing in my books or on the internet to allow identification so the long wait commenced.
Early Spring and some very orchid like leaves began appearing. I could rule out the spotted orchids and began to believe they were either Southern Marsh or Early Marsh. Hooded leaf tips suggested the latter.
Flower spikes began to form and armed with tripod, black cardboard (background), mirror (uplight) and a rucksack full of optimism I set off to get a photo - only to find the field had been mown flat.
Where there had been several hundred emerging flower spikes there were now just decapitated plants and a few ripped leaves.
All not entirely lost, a search revealed a few had ducked the mower blades and quite a number still developing flower spikes albeit shorn of their leaves.
Will try and resist flooding Flickr with images as the flowers grow to their full glory.
ID based on hooded leaf tips, flower has red double loop enclosing spots, and location - boggy field. But if I'm wrong I'd welcome correction.
The Early Marsh hybridises readily with other orchids so to find this colony of the original species isolated from other orchids adds another notch to the thrill.
Man Orchid / aceras anthropophora. Barnack Hills and Hollows, Cambridgeshire. 25/05/17.
'SOME BLASTS FROM THE PAST.' (2)
An image made just over two years ago and my first ever sighting of a Man Orchid.
One of just three plants found growing on a steep bank, it took some dedicated searching for ... even though I'd been given directions to the general area it grew in. Once found, I was thrilled and absolutely enthralled by it.
The orchid gets it's name because the small, stemless flowers resemble human figures. The petals and sepals form a 'head' whilst the lobes of the labellum form a 'torso' and 'limbs'. I'd never seen anything like it before and spent ages looking at it's structure and making far too many images!
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Just had to honour this beauty as she is about to bloom AGAIN!! She has not taken more than a 2 month break since I got her in October 2015.