Showing posts with label purple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label purple. Show all posts
Sunday, October 13, 2024

Cattleya Jairak Cosmos

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Friday, October 11, 2024

Cattleya Monte Elegante 'Hsin Pu'

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  I photographed this orchid at this month meeting of the PR orchid judging center.  The plant was tall, had immaculate pseudobulbs and the ...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Dendrobium purpureum Roxb. 1820

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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Phalaenopsis stuartiana Rchb.f. 1881

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Seen in the 2017 Puerto Rico orchid society show.
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Dendrobium Silver King

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Sunday, March 26, 2017

Maybe Acianthera cogniauxiana from Ecuador

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Sunday, February 26, 2017

Brassolaelia Morning Glory

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A nice plant that grows very well in the hot climate of coastal Puerto Rico.  The flowers are variable in the extent of color and the ven...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Encyclia cordigera [HBK] Dressler 1964, a particularly fine flower

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The flower of this plant is among the largest I have seen in a cordigera orchid.  The pseudobulbs are large and husky.  The plant is the ...
Sunday, December 25, 2016

Laeliocattleya White Spark 'Panda' a Cattleya hybrid that deviates from the norm.

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An unusually shaped Cattleya tribe hybrid.  In Cattleya a flat presentation of petals and sepals is considered the most desirable conf...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Kirchara Jairak Kiss

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Sunday, December 18, 2016

Brassolaeliocattleya Rustic Spots

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A variable and colorful hybrid that grows well in the hot coastal lowlands of Puerto Rico.  The plants show their Brassavola nodosa an...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Epidendrum schlechterianum Ames 1924

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This species seems to offer no challenges to cultivate in Puerto Rico.  I have seen it growing well both in hot coastal lowlands and i...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Dendrobium Andree Millar (Dendrobium atroviolaceum x Dendrobium convolutum)

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I photographed this one in the 2004 Mayaguez orchid show.  The flowers are fragrant and long lasting.  Grows and blooms well in Puerto Ri...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

This is a Catasetum Jumbo hybrid, unfortunately I could not understand the second half the name in the tag.

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This large and floriferous plant was shown in a local orchid show in September of 2004.  Unfortunately I have never seen it again to g...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Dendrobium delacourii Guillaumin 1924, this is the first plant of this species that I have seen blooming in Puerto Rico

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Many years ago I tried to grow this species.  In spite of my best efforts, it eventually left my garden for the great, happy, ...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Bulbophyllum cocoinum Bateman ex Lindl. 1837, will do well in hot coastal Puerto Rico, as long as it gets the proper humidity and care.

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This African Bulbophyllum has a coconut fragrance.  This plant was cultivated by a friend it eventually turned into an specimen pla...
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Monday, November 14, 2016

Dendrobium Roy Tokunaga

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This Dendrobium grew well in my garden.  It bloomed reliably and the flowers were long lasting.
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Cattleya intermedia Graham 1828, a plant in my garden.

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Encyclia Borincana (Encyclia alata x Encyclia bractecens) how I grow it

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This plant thrives tied to a piece of wood.  I grow it outside, it is hanging from the branches of a small shrub in my garden.  It onl...

Encyclia cordigera [HBK] Dressler 1964, the typical form of the species, sometimes sold as a "semi alba"

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In Puerto Rico, this species poses no challenge to cultivate.  It can tolerate drought and grows best if it gets a few hours of full s...