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This orchid was planted on this tree in the campus of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez around the middle of the twenty century. When I first saw this plant in 1980 it was already large. It was put there by a biology professor that kept orchids as a hobby. In those times keeping orchids was a high class hobby as most orchids were either too rare or expensive for the general public. As you can see from the photos I took last March, the plants are healthy and good for at least another fifty years. By the way, they have survived hurricanes unscratched, at most just a few pseudobulbs were loosened and fell.
