Epidendrum mystery

[Connie Star]

Can anyone identify this orchid from the photo I took in Monteverde, Costa Rica?
http://www.orchidboard.com/community...tical-one.html

[ronaldhanko]

Epi. difforme?

[orchideric]

Dear Connie,

Your plant is Epidendrum firmum, well known from Monteverde. It was once included in a very broadly defined E. difforme, a species now thought to be endemic to the Caribbean.

Hope that helps, Eric

[Connie Star]

Thanks so much. I take it you know Monteverde?

[orchideric]

Dear Connie,

I spent a weekend there during a long summer collectng specimens for the Museo Nacional and the Field Museum (Chicago). I particularly remember the fabulous carved door of the Pension Quetzal.

Eric

[Connie Star]

Hmm. I don't recall a Pension Quetzal. We usually stay at a Pension Manakin. It's probably under a new name now.
I just travel to Costa Rica when I can. My husband has an avocation/business building aerial bridges and platforms in forest canopies, mostly in the Peruvian Amazon. So he gets a lot of frequent flier miles with which we travel. We like to travel often and stay cheap. Costa Rica is as adventurous as I get. I've only been to Peru once.