Regarding the title: There's an Eulaema bee (orchid bee) inside the orchid, although it's hard to see. I did go back to the exhibit to try to get a better shot of the bee, although not sure how successful I was.

This model was inspired by Anguloa cliftonii, Clifton’s Anguloa, found in Colombia. It was created by Phaan Howng, a Taiwanese-American artist based in Baltimore, in FDM and resin 3D print, steel, wood, papier mache, rubber paint and acrylic paint in 2023.

I found it interesting that the artist usually incorporates her first name, Phaan, into the titles of her artworks, although she didn’t in this one, and seems to have misspelled (deliberately or not) one word of it.

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We went to the “Orchids: Amazing Adaptations” exhibit in the courtyard of the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, presented by the US Botanic Garden and Smithsonian Gardens. The display was quite creative this year, with large models of various kinds of orchids interspersed among live orchids as well as colorful backdrops for some of the flowers.

Orchids and the museum, posted earlier: