Sunday, 25 March 2012

Back yard about ready to burst open

And when I say this , I mean the Dendrobiums are ready to bloom. Three of them burst open last week. I carried my brother to the back walkway ( which is about 4 m away from the flowers and told him to inhale. He could smell them strong. Cannot guess what will happen when the 40 more flowers open. Ooooooo.

In addition to the Dendrobiums, the Catteleya sent out another pair of flowers and the Palenopsis is STILL open. Wow that is one long lasting flowers. Only today I discovered the pygmy orchid is open too. Those flowers are small. How a botanist discovered that flower in a tropical rainforest is beyond me.
On to the pics :-)

The three open dendrobium and the buds that are ready to open. The ones in the second pic should be open by Tuesday. I know I would be able to smell those from my room ( which is slightly upwind and above them)





The pygmy orchid. Why I never tried to identify this orchid? I do not know, will do that jus now. The Mango leaf is merely used as a scale reference. The flowers themselves are some millimeters across.



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