Showing posts with label brown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brown. Show all posts
Friday, October 21, 2016

Encyclia alata [Bateman]Schlechter 1914

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I brought this plant many years ago, at a small stall in a local Mall.  It would produce gigantic pseudobulbs, easily avocado sized...
Thursday, April 7, 2016

Lycaste xytriophora Linden & Rchb. f. 1872

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It is always a treat to see Lycastes on display locally as only very few people cultivate them in the island of Puerto Rico.  This may...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Anolis cristatellus, in the RIo Abajo forest, Puerto Rico

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Encyclia Renate Schmidt (Ency. Orchid Jungle x Enc. alata), May 2015 blooming

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This plant struggled for a few years with a stubborn scale insect infestation.  Last year, thought a combination of strategies, I wa...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Cyclopogon elatus (Sw.) Schltr. 1919, a native orchid in a shaded ravine in the Rio Abajo forest

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Today I visited a shaded ravine deep inside the Rio Abajo forest, near the center of the island of Puerto Rico.  This plant was gro...
Sunday, February 1, 2015

Paphiopedilum Genevieve Booth (Paph. Mount Toro x Paph. rothschildianum)

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Adult plants of tropical ladyslippers are not easy or cheap to get in Puerto Rico.  That means that you have to buy small seedlings by...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

Encyclia Borincana (Encyclia alata x Encyclia bractecens)

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I few years ago I tied this plant to a piece of a teak branch,  I hung it from an ornamental bush in the garden, and that was that.  I had n...

Encyclia Orchid Jungle (Ency. alata x Ency. phoenicea)

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I brought this Encyclia as a tiny seedling.  It grew vigorously and eventually turned into a large plant.  Then root rot struck and almos...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Coelogyne pulverula Teijsm. & Binn. 1862

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Photographed at the 2014 Ponce orchid society show, Ponce, Puerto Rico.  This is the first time I have seen this species exhibited ...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Anolis curvieri eating a tarantula

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In January of 2013, I noticed that there was a large lizard eating, with some difficulty, a tarantula it had caught.  Appare...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Dendrobium Chan Chao, an impulse buy at a hardware store

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Note the flower with the yellow callus on the lip One day I was in a Hardware store in the town of Mayaguez when I noticed the...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Cymbidium Dorothy Stockstill 'Forgotten Fruit'

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I brought this plant the annual PR orchid society show in San Juan in 2007.  When I brought this orchid it was a sma...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Cyrtochilum serratum an orchid from Ecuador

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I first saw this orchid in a greenhouse in Quito Botanical Gardens.  But later I saw it growing in cultivation near Centro del Mundo and...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Epidendrum anceps, a green flowered native orchid of Puerto Rico

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Bottoms up look of the inflorescence A secondary inflorescence  Flowers with a greenish yellowish tinge A plant...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Adelpha gelania arecosa, a butterfly endemic of Puerto Rico

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Top view side view Many years ago somebody told me never to leave my camera behind because you never knew when the opportunity to ta...