Odontoglossum rossii

[TDT]

Or Rhynchostele rossii

I purchased this plant at our local orchid society meeting from our guest speaker, Gordon Heaps of Edmonton. It was in flower then, finished soon after and then quickly sent out another spike with two flowers. Lovely little thing!

I love the translucence showing up by the back light on this shot!

What the!? A fly??

Yes, a fly!

Cheeky thing is really exploring that flower!

One last view.

 

[Erythrone]

Lovely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[biothanasis]

exceptional!!!

 

[Chuck]

Hi Tracey,

That is a great bloom. I'm going to have to see if Gordon has any more for sale. I like the series of photos as well. They help to bring the bloom to life.

Chuck

 

[eggshells]

When I opened the thread. I immediately look at the tag and thought that the hand writing is familiar. After that I read your post and I chuckled a bit and knew it was bad if I can recognize a plant with the hand writing in the tag.

Great plant though. Very Pretty.

 

[SlipperFan]

Wild and crazy flower!

 

[Ozpaph]

very lovely

 

[Brabantia]

Very nice. I have also a small collection of Odontos.

 

[NYEric]

Nice. My house is too warm for these.

 

[TDT]

Huh! I was reminding myself of the culture for this species and then started looking at other photos on the web and realized that this particular flower that the fly was so interested in is actually mutated! The yellow structure below the column (does it have a specific name?) has been repeated so there are three instead of one. My guess is this was a result of the rapidly changing environment as it moved from Gordon's growing space, was transported by van from Edmonton to Saskatoon (5 to 6-hour drive), and then adapted to my environment! It'll be interesting to see the next flowers....

 

[ericst11]

very nice.

 

[goldenrose]

That's cool!

 

[toddybear]

What a beauty!

 

[Leo Schordje]

Nice species. We don't see them very often any more. Good growing