Posts tagged orchids
nybg:
First glimpse of The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Gardens, which opens to the public at The New York Botanical Garden on Saturday, March 3!
And the making of the show:
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Dendrobium speciosum can be found in the Australian states of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria; there is also a disjunct population in Papua New Guinea. The variety pictured here (D. speciosum var. grandiflora), however, is only found in southeast Queensland. Photograph by Eric Hunt.
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ON A REMOTE ISLAND in Papua New Guinea, scientists have uncovered the world’s only knownorchid to produce flowers exclusively at night that die by the next morning.
Of more than 25,000 species in the orchid, only a handful flower in the evening. The new orchid, dubbed Bulbophyllum nocturnum, is the first known one whose flowers shrivel and fall off before dawn breaks.
Dendrobium chrysopterum - discovered bybotanist Andre Schuiteman in 1990 in PNG and described by him and Ed de Vogel. Found only in the forests of Eastern New Guinea.
Photo Credit: Andre Schuiteman
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The American Ghost Orchid (Dendrophylax lindenii)! A native of swamps in Florida and Cuba, this flower is called the “ghost” orchid because its roots blend into the tree making the flower appear to float in midair.This orchid is a perennial epiphyte, meaning it grows on another plant (usually a tree) but isn’t parasitic. The orchid is only pollinated by the giant sphinx moth and supposedly smells like apples in the morning. The American Ghost Orchid is considered endangered in the wild and is very difficult to grow outside of its natural environment.
