One of This Season's Last Ghost Orchids

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I had despaired photographing any ghost orchid flowers this year, having schedule difficulties preventing me from making the swamps during peak season. An unfortunate and yet fortunate car breakdown coming back from the COS symposium made it where we had to return to the Naples area yesterday. My second oldest son and myself explored the swamps, finding only bloomless ghost orchid plants, until the late afternoon where a final check yielded a single plant with a single flower. I bring to you now one of the last ghost orchid flowers of the season.



You can read more about our day on my blog:

The Florida Native Orchid Blog

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