Perners' Botanical tour to Guangxi and Fujian in May 14

[JeanLux]

I had the opportunity to be member of this tour! It was great to get to know Wenqing and Holger Perner, as well as the other participants; en résumé: we were a super-group!

A lot of different stages during these 12 days:

Arrival in Nanning, capital of province Guangxi, first visit with the orchid collection of 2 very sympathetic chinese people; mostly dendros, but also paphs, phals and catts (not in bloom)

dendrobium jenkinsii

paph bellatulum

Continuing our trip via Leye, botanical treasure with esp. Paph hirsutissimum:

meeting along the road trees covered with Cymbidiums, some of them very large specimen with older growths partially bearing seed caps, blooming growths and new spikes:
4 pics of Cymbidium aloifolium

The Yachang Orchid Natural reserve is a large protected area where no visitors are allowed, except a orchid experts !

A lot of orchids were mounted on trees by the people in charge of the reserve (esp. dendros), but main species and quite naturally in situ growing were Paph hirsutissimum, and dianthum (not in bloom):
Dendrobium fimbriatum var. oculatum

hirsutissimums

dianthum:

Liparis distans

Bulbophyllum tianguii (?)

 

[JeanLux]

Phalaenopsis honghenensis

some more hirsutissimums:

Oberonia species => cavalieri (syn. O. myosurus)

dendro naturally growing here => D. loddigesii

Luisia teres:

(Coelo and Liparis) => Cymb. lancifolium & Liparis chapaensis:

Pholidota yunnanensis:

 

[JeanLux]

Another trip met us to the Longrui Nature Reserve where apart from the frescos on cliff rocks (that were for the largest part unvisible because of refurbishing) we hoped to see paph concolor, and we saw them in fact, high up on the rock! the best tele lenses were of advantage :

They were there!!

Apart from orchids, of course lots of other blooms to be seen in those regions:
Bauhinia blakeana:

But what finally had a still greater impression on me than orchids were the beauty of the landscapes and the extremely sympathetic normal chinese people!

I have some more pics of them to show if you are interested!


Jean

 

[JeanLux]

Holger gave us some figures about orchids in Guangxi (acc. to Liu):

108 genera, 188 species of which 16 Paphs:

appletonianum, barbigerum, bellatulum, concolor, delenatii, dianthum, emersonii, hangianum, helenae, henryanum, hirsutissimum, malipoense, micranthum, parishii, purpuratum, villosum


But here still 2 pics of Pholidota chinensis:

Orchids sold as medecine by specialized entities:
Anoectochilum formosanum / roxburghii

Dendrobium catenatum (syn. officinale)

or at local markets/stores:
Pholidota cf. yuannanensis

Bulbophyllum spec.

Anoectochilus formosamus

The bulbo tree:

Cymbidium spec. nursery:
ensifolium, goeringii and sunense

Cym. ensifolium

Jean

 

[couscous74]

Fantastic! Great pics. Thanks for sharing.

 

[ZWUM]

Wow that's great! Must have been incredible to see


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[labskaus]

Great photos, thanx for sharing!

I wish I can go on a trip with Holger and Wenqing one day too.

The Coelo in the pic with the Liparis might as well be a Cymbidium, from the pic?

 

[eggshells]

Wow. Thanks for sharing this Jean.

 

[NYEric]

Thanks for sharing. I would love to be able to get a bunch of those jewel orchids at a market!!

 

[Ruth]

Just terrific!!! Keep them coming.

 

[Daniel Herrera]

WOW! That must be a great experience.

 

[fibre]

Wonderfull pictures, Jean! Thanks a lot for sharing them here!
I would be interested to see your landscape pictures as well.

 

[reivilos]

Thanks for the pics.

 

[JeanLux]

Ok, here some more:

Some ferns:
Dicranopteris dichotoma

Cymbidium in situ: here ensifolium

As house plant:

Holger Perner and JeanLux:

Wenqing and Holger:

Jean

 

[JeanLux]

And here a few 'China' pics!!! I came to really like that countryside and inhabitants within 12 days, and maybe return for one more trip ... !!!

Jean

 

[JeanLux]

And a few more (of my +/- 1.400 pics )

Hope you enjoy!!!


Jean

 

[JeanLux]

Great photos, thanx for sharing!

I wish I can go on a trip with Holger and Wenqing one day too.

The Coelo in the pic with the Liparis might as well be a Cymbidium, from the pic?

I suppose you are right Carsten, but with my little knowledge of cymbs, the foliage was not enough Cymb-like!! I shall mail the pic to Holger for verification, and maybe he will jump in here !!!! Jean

 

[fibre]

:clap: Thanks for the additional pics! There are some very well seen scenes among them!

 

[naoki]

Wow, amazing. It looks like that you covered lots of different features! Do you happen to know what are the round buildings in the last two photos?

 

[rangiku]

Wonderful photos of flora, fauna and people, Jean. One day I hope to go on a trip with Wenqing and Holger. They are such lovely and generous people.