RHH's photos with the keyword: breve

One more photo of the little orchid that I found so utterly charming, this just before the flower opened and right after I had watered it. The fully opened flower is below. orchidsinbloom-ron.blogspot.com/2012/02/angraecum-breve.html

My Angraecum breve is in bloom again, this time with two flowers. I pollinated the single flower that bloomed last year and a seed pod developed and was on the plant for a year. I was very much afraid that would have weakened the plant and that it would not bloom at all this year, so the two flowers were a very pleasant surprise. The plant is from Madagascar and is one of the smallest in the genus. The plant, just visible in this photo, is an inch and a half in size, the flowers almost that large and the nectary or spur nearly six inches. orchidsinbloom-ron.blogspot.com/2013/02/angraecum-breve.html

This is a close-up of the flowers from the tiny little Angraecum I posted some time ago. At that time someone who knows better than I suggested that this plant was not Angraecum breve, but an unidentified species and that I would be better to label is with "cf. breve." I've done that with this picture as well. The species, whatever it is, is from Madagascar. The plant is only an inch across and the flowers dwarf the plant, especially the long spur or nectary. orchidsinbloom-ron.blogspot.com/2013/02/angraecum-breve.html

I've posted pictures of the flowers: these are the buds with the spurs or nectaries uncurling. I am completely charmed by this plant and this photo demonstrates why. Pleae note too that you can get some idea of the size fo the plant from the moss on which it is growing. orchidsinbloom-ron.blogspot.com/2013/02/angraecum-breve.html