Orchids
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- Rhynchovola Jimminey Cricket 'Super Bug' HCC/AOS [OC]
OC = Own Collection
Rhynchovola Jimminey Cricket = Brassavola nodosa × Rhyncholaelia digbyana
Unfortunately, it does not smell, even though Brassavola nodosa smells really nice, and Rhynchovolas are also supposed to have a smell.
With bonus Jiminy Cricket pin.
- Maxillaria variabilis flowering
Maxillaria is in the subtribe Maxillariinae, which also includes Lycaste.
- Fruits of Chysis laevis (Swiss 2 francs coin for scale) [OC]
Chysis laevis is in the subtribe Chysinae (it was previously placed in Bletiinae).
The flowers were open only a few days and I suspect they pollinated themselves, because I don't have anything closely related.
There are four fruits in total, and they are quite large.
OC = Own collection
- A rare orchid survives on a few tracts of prairie. Researchers want to learn its secretsapnews.com A rare orchid survives on a few tracts of prairie. Researchers want to learn its secrets
The western prairie fringed orchid is a rare flowering plant that has declined due to loss of its native prairie habitat.
- Chysis laevis [OC]
Chysis laevis Lindl.
OC = Own Collection
This orchid opened three flowers, which were open only a few days. I suspect that they self-pollinated somehow, but I'm not sure. (They now have "thick" fruit-like parts.) I couldn't detect any smell.
Chysis is in subtribe Bletiinae according to Wikipedia, and in subtribe Chysinae according to Genera Orchidacearum Vol. 4. I couldn't find how the RHS classifies it. In any case, the genus is in tribe Epidendreae, which also includes subtribe Laeliinae.
- Myrmecocattleya Luster 'Gazelle' [OC]
OC = Own Collection
I bought this in January 2023.
Myrmecocattleya Luster = Cattleya forbesii × Myrmecophila thomsoniana
Both species are in the subtribe Laeliinae.
I believe I smelled a very faint perfume, but I'm not 100% sure.
- Aranda Majula 'Rimau'
National Orchid Garden, Singapore.
Aranda Majula = Arachnis Maggie Oei × Vanda insignis
Arachnis Maggie Oei = Arachnis hookeriana × Arachnis flos-aeris
Both Vanda and Arachnis are in the subtribe Aeridinae.
I don't remember whether the flowers were perfumed or not, but they may have been, like Papilionanda Mimi Palmer, another Vanda hybrid that can be seen (and smelled) at the National Orchid Garden.
- Study shows orchid family emerged in northern hemisphere and thrived alongside dinosaurs for 20 million yearsphys.org Study shows orchid family emerged in northern hemisphere and thrived alongside dinosaurs for 20 million years
In a new study published in New Phytologist, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, along with partners in Latin America, Asia and Australia, present an updated family tree of orchids, tracing their origins to the northern hemisphere some 85 million years ago. Not only does the study shed new...
- Why Is Everything an Orchid?worldsensorium.com Why Is Everything an Orchid?
Why Is Everything an Orchid? Orchids were Darwin’s “abominable mystery.” They continue to elude science—and efforts to save them. By Sofia Quaglia Sign up for our monthly newsletter! After investigating the origin of the species, Charles Darwin lunged into an exploration of something that seemed, by...
- Orchid without bumblebee on island finds wasp, loses self | Kobe University News sitewww.kobe-u.ac.jp Orchid without bumblebee on island finds wasp, loses self | Kobe University News site
Because the bumblebee that an orchid relies on for pollination does not exist on a remote island, th...
