Trip to Veracruz, Mexico
 

I got back from My grandmas house just a few days agoa dn had a great time. I was amazed at how many orchids they have there! They come from all over the world as my grandpa collected them. Renantheras, Vandas, Cattleyas, Laelias, Epidendrums, Phalaenopsis, Paphiopedilums, Stanhopeas, Gongoras, Lycastes, Maxillarias, Oncidiums, Miltonias, Catasetums, amd many many others that i cant name for shure. It was fantastic.And not only there at my grandmothers house, they sell stanhopeas a nd ancietas in the local flower market. Theres Oncidium sphacelatums growing everyhwre from the trees of the park to the ground! Theres a huge renanthera growing around a concrete pllar. It got accustummed to the weather there in Fortin de las flores. And i saw my first stanhopea flowering. It was amazing. AND THE scent was wonderfull. Its seriously like a orchid lovers paradise. Just go to El corazon and youll see wild orchids growing next to bromeliads. I saw a tree side with about a 100 or more Laelia seedlings. It trully is a beautifull place.


But theres a dowside to this story. Unfortunatly theres really isnt any body to take care of all the orchids in my gRandmothers house, so alot of them get fallen over by the wind and just lie there until they die. I saved Vanda and Renanthera SPECIES that where liing on the ground! I would be happy the collection since they some get robbed every once in a while Bu unfortunatly i cant.


Anyways, here are the pictures that i took. If you would like more, just ask!

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Tiny orchid growing below a coffe tree from the Genus Ornithocephalus

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NOID but stll very nice.
http://www.orchidboard.com/community...3-miltonia.jpgFantastic large fragrant miltonia.


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Nice small yellow maxillaria.


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Catasetum being visited by its pollinator, A Bumble bee. It woulndt leave even thought i was right it front of it. It was too concentrated on the fragrance.


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Stanhopea occulata


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Brassavola hybrid

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Sobralia macrantha


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Catasetum

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Renanthera in America!


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The peack of Orizaba. Not an orchid but still fantastic.


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Epidendrum nocturnum.


Alot of these orchids are native to this area of mexico such as this epidendrum. So they are practucally in situ.




Thank you for seeing these.

OMG. How amazing. thank you for sharing your wonderful pictures. :)

Thank you so much for sharing these pictures of your trip. Please share more :)

bingo

Superb! thank you for sharing and as said above yes please show us more!

Very interesting pictures. Thanks.
More please !!!!

Wow, great pictures!! Feel like I was there!

Absolutely beautiful. I think I would be seriously considering moving in with Grandma!!!

Sorry for the wait i kind of forgot about this thread.
Anyways here are more pictures.

Enjoi!

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Encyclia syn. Prosthechea cochleata
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Really bad picture of a Barkeria
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Really big Lycaste aromatica gorwing on ferns
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Another really bad picture of a Isochillus
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Again the laelia hybrid
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Side view of Stanhopea occulata

:)I wish I had been there to enjoy all that beauty in real life.

Marilyn

13? Already taking pretty great pictures. Thanks for sharing them with us. I love wild orchids and its good to see others out there enjoying them.

I wish! I really get frustrated when i see something amazing but i just cant take a good picture of it.

Youre the first person to notice im 13. I was thinking people would think its alittle weird that i like orchids so much.

Thats what i like about orchidboard. Everyone fits in.:biggrin::biggrin:

Well here is another picture but this one was taken a loooooooooooooooong time ago. Before I was even born I think. Anyways, it was here(where the picture is) where they placed all the flowering orchids to display them. This is right infront of my grandmothers house. If you look closely you can see My grandfather working in his office in the background.

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Beautiful photo's! Looks like you had a fantastic time visiting your grandparents. Wouldn't it be lovely to live in a place where orchids grow all over the place like that :)
I especially love the photo of the Epidendrum nocturnum, what a beautiful flower!

By the way, looks like loving orchids runs in your family, do I'm not surprised you love them at 13 ;) my grandmother also grew them, and so did my mom and dad so I always had my parents 'hiding' in the greenhouse :p It's great having such a hobby at an early age, so enjoy! :)

Loved the pics. Thanks for sharing.

Wow! youre story isnt very much different from mine.
Well its actually grandparent. My Grandfather died about 2 years ago:( He would have taught me so much

Wow!! lucky YOU :)

Sorry that your grandfather died, unfortunatly that's life :( It's a shame he can't teach you all he knew now, but at least you did inherit his love for orchids, which is good! :)

FANTASTIC! Thanks so much for posting these pics.

I will hopefully be able to post pictures of my Trip to Chiapas which is in the south of Mexico. There where soooooooooooooooooooooo many orchids there! Unfortunatly, I didnt take my camera there so I had to use my Cousins but he still hasnt sent me the pictures yet! They will be much better pictures and I took some of miniature-and I mean 2 cm-flowering orchids which I have no idea what they were. Maybe some of the expers will be able to help identify. But that will only be until I get the pictures.


Thank you all for youre replies! I hope you have enjoyed the pictures.

beautiful pics! thanks for sharing :)

Actually many of us hope that younger people will join orchid groups while young so they can learn from us old duffers while we are around. Sometimes we learn ourselves from the young.

Yeah thats great! And absolutely true!