Showing posts with label ornithidium. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 10, 2015

I saw few flowers but many orchid seed capsules in El Yunque forest

On my May 4 visit to El Yunque forest there were few flowers to see.  But seed capsules were everywhere.
Probably Epidendrum ramosum
Pleurotallis ruscifolia
Habenaria amalfitana
Maybe Epidendrum nocturnum
Ornithidium coccineum
Jaquiniella, probably globosa
Epidendrum boricuarum

Ornithidium coccineum (Jacq.) Salisb. ex R.Br. on El Yunque forest 4 of May 2015




On a hike through the elfin forest I found many plants of this species.  Interestingly, fully adult plants had all bloomed some time ago and were full of seed pods.  I found  two small plants that had flowers.   I also noticed that some of the older, larger plants I photographed in the past are now gone, most likely fallen from their perches.

The forest was the driest I have ever seen.  There were very few epiphythic orchids with blooms.  These two plants and two plants of Epidendrum jamaicensis were all I found blooming.