RHH's photos with the keyword: candida

This is another native orchid from our trip to Olympic National Park last summer. We had looked for these in one location but they were finished blooming there. A day later we found them everywhere along the Deer Park Road. This is Piperia candida, the Slender White Piperia, which is found along the Pacific Northwest Coast from Alaska to California. It grows to about two feet tall (60cm) and the flowers are a quarter of an inch in size (5mm). The leaves which lie along the ground are usually withered and gone by the time the plant flowers, so all one finds is a tall, slender flower spike.

Sobralia is a genus of Central and South American orchids that tend to be large plants with very short-lived flowers, the flowers often lasting only a day - short-lived but very delicate and beautiful. They are far too large for me to grow, and the plant shown here was photographed at the Muttart Conservatory in Edmonton. The plant is part of the collection of the Orchid Species Preservation Foundation, a volunteer group that does all it can to preserve the orchid species that have been in the collections of people who are no longer able to take care of their collections and want to donate them. The group uses the premises of Muttart and has a huge collection of species in three growing areas, cool, intermediate and warm. We visited there the last time we were in Edmonton at the invitation of a friend. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2011/08/muttart-con...

The Slender White Piperia can be a tall plant. The few stems of these we found along a forest service road in the Greenwater area were nearly three feet tall. They were also very difficult to photograph in the strong breeze that was blowing and we got only a few good pictures. These were one of ten native orchid species we found that day. nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2012/08/t...