Today’s orchid pictures are of one cattleya intergeneric hybrid (a Stellamizutaara), and three species. The flowers on the species only last two or three days, but flowers in general don’t seem to last as long in the dog days of summer as they do at other times of year.
We have Stlma. Kelly ‘Lea’, Eurychone rothschildiana, Stelis bidentata, and Stanhopea panamense. The Stanhopea smells like vanilla coke; it’s a yellow flower as opposed to the white flower from the oculata I showed in an earlier post, and it’s in an 8″ basket vs. the 12″ one for the oculata. The Stellamizutaara really is that vivid, with its bright fuchsia lip, but doesn’t smell like anything. The green/white Eurychone isn’t that pretty, but it’s interesting, and I like the crystalline white petals. It’s a miniature, in a 2″ square pot. Finally, the Stelis has flowers that aren’t much bigger than a pinhead, and I don’t have the camera skills to capture them properly.
All gallery pictures are clickable to see them in regular size (well, whatever WordPress scales the original images to). Scroll over each to see what plant it is. As a side note, I rather like the way WordPress handles picture galleries now; it used to suck beans, but this latest version is pretty good, IMHO.
Enjoy.
those are so beautiful. My favorites will always be the ones with spots, but those pinkish ones here are wonderful also.
I agree with cussedness that pink one is lovely