RHH's photos with the keyword: rex

In the desert around Borrego Springs, California, just outside Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, are over one hundred "sky art" sculptures by Ricardo Breceda. These include prehistoric creatures, animals and people from the area's past, and fanciful things. Most of them are quite large and some of them are huge. I've posted photos from Anza-Borrego because we are headed there next week. I have some business in southern California and we are planning to visit Anza-Borrego, the Salton Sea and Joshua Tree National Park, going on from there to Organ Pipe National Monument and Coconino National Forest in Arizona before heading home again.

Masdevallia rex , the "King of Masdevallias," is from Ecuador and belongs to the section Saltatrices, a group of Masdevallias with tubular, hair-lined flowers and a bulge at the base of the flower tube. This species has some of the largest flowers in the section, from whence it gets its name, rex. On my plant the flowers are 14 cm from top to bottom and are produced on a plant that is only 10 cm.

Photographed in the conservatory at Manito City Park, Spokane. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2010/08/manito-city...

Photographed in the Gaiser Conservatory at Manito City Park, Spokane.

Photographed at the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore. The Shoebill is a large stork-like bird that is native to tropical east Africa.