2007-04-17 Final field trip of 6th annual NOC symposium - Everglades National Park Photo Gallery by Jim Fowler at pbase.com

2007-04-17 Final field trip of 6th annual NOC symposium - Everglades National Park

2007-04-17 Final field trip of the 6th annual NOC symposium - Everglades National Park.

Here is a group of shots of several orchid species we managed to see while in the Everglades National Park in south Florida. Eventhough Florida has many more orchid species than any other state in the U.S., not all are blooming at any one time. We did see many epiphytes in bloom as well as our old familiar terrestrial orchid, Calopogon tuberosus, but this time it was the variety of Calopogon tuberosus called simpsonii, which is found only in southernmost Florida. It was especially nice for me to be able to study and photograph this one, since it is the last of the Calopogon species that I had not previously seen. Just to keep things interesting, I threw in a photo of a menacing "critter" that we saw on our last day there.

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Cyrtopodium punctatum - "cowhorn" orchid or "cigar" orchid named for the shape of its pseudobulbs - a large number of plants	Cyrtopodium punctatum - same group a bit closer	Cyrtopodium punctatum - same group a bit closer still	Cyrtopodium punctatum - just a portion of a single spike of flowers	Cyrtopodium punctatum - this spike was at least 4 feet above our heads
Cyrtopodium punctatum - two of four seed capsules - each as large as a fist	Cyrtopodium punctatum - closeup and backlit	Prosthechea boothiana - "dollar" orchid in seed - named for the resemblance of its round pseudobulb to a silver dollar	Trichocentrum luridum - "mule-eared" orchid - note the large leaves that resemble mule's ears	Trichocentrum luridum - a portion of the spike
Trichocentrum luridum - closeup	Trichocentrum luridum - backlit by the sun	Trichocentrum luridum - a much larger plant with several large spikes	Trichocentrum luridum - note the color different from the flowers of the previous plant	Trichocentrum luridum - a bit closer
Trichocentrum luridum - full shot of the plant and all of its flower spikes	Trichocentrum luridum - closeup	Trichocentrum luridum - my Brit friend, Graham Giles, adding a bit of scale to the photo	Trichocentrum luridum - a portion of a single spike	Trichocentrum luridum - a bit closer
Trichocentrum luridum - closeup	Trichocentrum luridum - very close	Trichocentrum luridum - another plant with a single spike in bloom	Trichocentrum luridum - note the darker overall color	Part of the group leaving the Coot Bay Prairie - crawling over mangrove roots next to a smelly, stagnant canal
Cypress hammock - note the many bromelliads on the cypress trunks	Cypress hammock - Cyrtopodium punctatum plant down low on the cypress knees	Cypress hammock - closeup - note different color from those in Coot Bay Prairie	Cypress hammock - closer still	Cypress hammock - another Cyrtopodium punctatum - one of four or five plants that we saw in the hammock
Cypress hammock - this is the only time we got our feet wet, and we did it in spades...	Cypress hammock - a sleepy cottonmouth water moccasin that let us approach within about twelve feet	Calopogon tuberosus var. simpsonii - Simpson's grass-pink	Calopogon tuberosus var. simpsonii - darker form	Calopogon tuberosus var. simpsonii - note narrow, inrolled leaf - not flat as in C. tuberosus var. tuberosus

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