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Ranges From Florida and Mexico to Costa Rica.

This is Barkeria shoemakeri crossed with Barkeria naevosa. I no longer grow these. I have neither the room nor climate for them. This is an old scanned slide from our years in Houston where they grew like weeds.

A native species from India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Laos, Vietnam.

This is the name I have on this species but can find no record of such a species anywhere. It has much longer canes than Dendrobium margaritaceum.

Sun Peaks Ski Resort, British Columbia, Canada.

From Mexico and Central America.

Native to Laos, Vietnam and China.

Native to Australia.

Native to Myanmar, Laos and Thailand.

In Explore September 25, 2009, #405. This is a hybrid of Catasetum expansum and saccatum and a nice example of this interesting group of orchids. The appendages above the lip of this flower are part of the pollinating mechanism. They are like triggers that when touched cause the pollinia to shoot out. These pollinia are attached to a short stalk with a pad of quick drying adhesive on the end. The pollinia, when shot out of the flower, glue themselves to the back of the pollinating insect or to the nose of the person who is trying to smell the flower (the flowers have a very attractive scent).

In Explore October 2, 2009, #132. Now renamed Rhyncholaelia digbyana, this species is from Costa Rica, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. It has been widely used in hybridizing and has a strong citrus fragrance.

In Explore November 12, 2009, #309. Cycnoches is sometimes called the swan orchid because the lip and column when viewed up side down resemble the body and neck of a swan. This particular flower is a hybrid of Cycnoches chlorochilon and Cycnoches haagii.

Restrepia is a genus of small orchids that are all brightly colored and that all look similar to this. It is difficult to imagine that someone went through the trouble of trying to hybridize these tiny flowers, but someone has and this is the result. The hybrid has not, however, been registered.

Nooksack Falls is near the junction of the North and South Forks of the Nooksack River and is just off the Mount Baker Highway east of the town of Glacier. This photo was taken by my wife.