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Originally Posted by will1986
I've also been to Manaus and Santarem! It's beautiful there, and I also saw lots of plants I suspected were orchids, though none of them were blooming at the time.
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I was there the middle two weeks in July. I was told that most of the orchids would be finished blooming, having bloomed recently. I was very excited to find the few that I did, but it's hard to say if I saw others because there were so many epiphytic plants that could have been orchids. There were tons and tons of bromeliads growing high in the trees.
Over the 2 weeks I took about 7500 photos. I managed to trim those down to about 1500 that were either good or at least managed to capture something interesting.
I was so excited to catch a couple of plants blooming.
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Originally Posted by Bohata
Always interesting to see these in the wild. I wonder if the next to last one might be a Catasetum or a close relative.
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I don't know. Maybe, the only thing that might make me doubt it is that I've read that catasetums require a lengthy dry season where there is absolutely no rain at all, and while that area does have a wet season and a dry season, they should really be called "mildly wet season" and "almost impossibly wet season".