Butterfly world should be called orchid world. Wow!!!
 

I had the fun of going to Butterfly World with my family last week and I was blown away and delighted. The place is in a local park and about 30 years old and they have many orchids that have been there since they opened. Holy bleeping duck sauce!!! I am going back, a lot, I need to see some of these plants bloom.

I am uploading the shots now but will add a bunch of pic tomorrow. There was one orchid that really had me confused bc it looked like a MASSIVE cym fully epiphyte in full sun.

If anyone is in the Broward County area. Make this a place you visit.


They also have a cool garden center where they sell a lot of their butterfly plants. I got a wisteria seedling and a nice passiflora vine but could have gone crazy as they have some really sweet plants

so here are the pics

i'll add some butterfly ones later

what is this first one?
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some of the workers

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Great!

The blue flower on a spike is Stachytarpheta, porterweed. It is widespread in the American tropics. It is being hybridized for more colors.

here are two more pics of the plant i could not ID

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i think it is a Cym but that seems impossible

Maybe Cymbidium finlaysonianum? The lip doesn't entirely match, though.

Don't recognize the Cym... suspect that it is a hybrid, in the group that includes finlaysonianum, aloifolium (simulans), bicolor, maybe some suave in the mix. Those hard-leaved tropical Cyms can get IMMENSE ... like that one. The relatively large flowers with lip broader than the species that I mentioned makes me strongly suspect hybrid.

And great butterfly pix!

Thanks y’all!

I was sure to switch our day passes to an annual as we left. I want to see those flowers! I mean, butterflies!!

went back a few more times and this place does not disappoint

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6 - this immediately made me feel like my metal tag maker was inadequate
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12 - ever hear of a birdwing butterfly- me neither, F'ing amazing...this is the SMALLEST in the family
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TY for posting. What a great way to spend the day. I'd be there very often.