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Old 02-02-2009, 01:34 AM
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Cleisostoma paniculatum is found in east Asia and also in Taiwan. In this island, the wild plants usually grow on the trunks of big trees in mountainous areas.
I spotted some wild groups on big trees while going mountain climbing. Most plants of this species dewll so high that it is not easily for me to take clear close-up images for them. But it can usually be identified by their branched short spikes.


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Old 02-02-2009, 08:26 AM
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Awesome! I sure to wish that they grew on the trees here...
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Now that is just way too cool!

Thanks for sharing
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WOW Id be mountain climbing too if I could go see vandas in the wild like that. Thanks a lot for showing these pics. I love them. Now you just need to take up tree climbing
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Old 02-02-2009, 09:30 PM
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Thanks for looking. Cleisostoma paniculatum is the commonest vanda-like species here in Taiwan. Almost all of the wild plants that I have ever seen grow high on the big trees. In the mountain that I explored, it is one of the two epiphytes that I found. Another one is Cym. dayanum, but not abundant. The photo shows the wild cymbidium on a fir.

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It happens in India too. common in fact in the forested areas.
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Really neat! Based on the apparent absence of moss on the trees I'm guessing that the orchids experience at least a week or more of no rain?
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Wow! How cool. Thanks for sharing these. They look so abundant there. They really amaze me, time and time again!
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Old 02-21-2009, 05:34 AM
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Really neat! Based on the apparent absence of moss on the trees I'm guessing that the orchids experience at least a week or more of no rain?
It seldom rains in winter days in that area i explored.
But as I know, the forests are usually smothered in fog in afternoons in dry season which brings enough humidity to these plants.
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Wow! How cool. Thanks for sharing these. They look so abundant there. They really amaze me, time and time again!
They are abundant in that forest.
The orchids are so crowded on the branches that while the typhoon hits in summer, some of them usually fall dawn to the ground and may become victims.
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