wild encyclia tampensis in my neighborhood!!!confirmed

[DirtyCoconuts]

I have seen an orchid...impossibly high in a tree, i used to think perhaps a brassavola (it has long ish hanging leaves, grows on the underside of the branch and appears brass(y)), but i never saw any flowers and it was too high and not in my yard so i just always stared as i walked by and checked for any clues

recently, as i learned more about orchids and such i realized it was probably an encyclia that happens to be hanging down and it is so far up that i could easily miss the flowers.

well on a baby walk the other day i was looking at tree bark and i saw something that was IMMEDIATELY apparent it was not a tilly.....i got closer and confirmed it


you can see there is also another baby on the right under the other plant root

Untitled by J Solo, on Flickr



this is the top edge of a large knot from a 20-30 inch branch that broke off


here is the other plant- the zoom makes it unbearable so this is as close as i could get it

Untitled by J Solo, on Flickr

the two are about 50 feet apart laterally and 30 apart vertically.....easily covered by pollen