Welcome to Plant Photography, a blog containing photographs of exotic plant species and cultivars from around my garden at home in Brisbane, Australia and from my trips around the local area and further afield. I hope you enjoy viewing these gardening images. Try using the search box below to search for your favourite plant or plant family.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Stelis porschiana Porsch's Stelis
Common Names: Porsch's Stelis, Leach Orchid
Species: Stelis porschiana
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
An interesting orchid with tiny, minute flowers.
Bryobium eriaeoides Orchid
Species: Bryobium eriaeoides
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
This straight-species orchid produces long sprays of small, white flowers, and has long, lush foliage.
Sarcochilus falcatus x Sarcochilus spathulatus
Common Name: Sarco. Orchid Hybrid
Species: Sarcochilus falcatus x Sarcochilus spathulatus
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
A dainty, small flowered, cream coloured, epiphytic Sarco. orchid hybrid. Unfortunately the shot wasn't as focused as I would have liked.
Habenaria rhodocheila Bog Orchid Orange Flower
Common Name: Bog Orchid
Species: Habenaria rhodocheila
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
A small, but profusely flowered bog orchid species, with a large bright orange lip that comprises most of the flower.
Habenaria rhodocheila Bog Orchid
Common Name: Bog Orchid
Species: Habenaria rhodocheila
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
A stunning bright orange flowered orchid species.
Eria hyacinthoides Orchid
Common Name: Eria Orchid
Species: Eria hyacinthoides
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
Eria hyacinthoides is a dainty, pure-white, small-flowered, straight-species orchid.
Miltonia moreliana Orchid
Common Name: Milt. Orchid
Species: Miltonia moreliana
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
A lovely straight-species orchid flower with deep purple sepals and petals, and a lighter pink lip with purple vein markings.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Tolumnia Susan Perriera x Rodrumnia Leanne Johnson
Common Name: Hybrid Orchid Tolu. Susan Perriera x Rrm. Leanne Johnson
Species: Tolumnia Susan Perriera x Rodrumnia Leanne Johnson
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
An interesting little orchid flower, the brown on cream speckled pattern is very pretty.
Trichocentrum Orchid Green Gold
Common Name: Trichocentrum Green Gold, Trt. Green Gold
Species: Trichocentrum Green Gold
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
A lovely orchid with brown speckled patterned sepals and petals and a large cream coloured lip.
Vanda Rungbruk Blue
Common Name: Vanda Orchid
Species: Vanda Rungbruk Blue
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
A lovely V. cultivar with blue orchid flowers.
Vanda Orchid Rungbruk Blue
Common Name: Vanda Orchid, V. Orchid
Species: Vanda Rungbruk Blue
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
This orchid has a lovely purplish blue flower with lighter coloured windows on the sepals and petals, and a deep royal purple, almost black lip.
Laelia crispa Flower Showing Lip Portrait
Common Name: Laelia Orchid, Cattleya Orchid
Species: Laelia crispa
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
A portrait shot of the same orchid flower centered on the amazing purple on white colouration of the lip of the flower. This plant has recently been reclassified as Cattleya crispa.
Laelia crispa Orchid
Common Name: Laelia Orchid, Cattleya Orchid
Species: Laelia crispa
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
This is an elegant orchid flower with curved white petals and sepals with frilled margins, and an intricately patterned deep royal purple lip. According to Wikipedia, this plant has been reclassified as Cattleya crispa.
Cattleya bicolor Orchid
Common Name: Cattleya Orchid
Species: Cattleya bicolor
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
A pretty orchid flower with burgundy speckled, glossy, dark-salmon coloured petals and sepals, and a vibrant bright purple lip.
Cattleya intermedia var. amethystina Orchid
Common Name: Cattleya Orchid
Species: Cattleya intermedia var. amethystina
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
A lovely orchid flower with soft, light pastel pink petals and sepals and a lip with a vibrant purple highlight.
Slipper Orchid Paphiopedilum Prime Child
Common Name: Slipper Orchid
Species: Paphiopedilum Prime Child
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
Another stunning yellow and brown Paph. orchid. The petals have hairs and brown speckles while the sepals have brown stripes, an interesting contrast.
Slipper Orchid Paphiopedilum Golddollar
Common Names: Lady's Slipper Orchid, Slipper Orchid
Species: Paphiopedilum Golddollar
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
A stunning, fully yellow Paph. slipper orchid flower, although its dorsal sepal does have a bit of a greenish tinge to it. Almost.
Paphiopedilum curtisii Lady's Slipper Orchid Flower
Common Name: Lady's Slipper Orchid
Species: Paphiopedilum curtisii
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
These Paph. orchids remind me so much of pitcher plants, especially ones with colouration such as this. I love how the dorsal sepal of the flower has a purple striped pattern while the petals are speckled.
Paphiopedilum curtisii Lady Slipper Orchid
Common Name: Lady Slipper Orchid
Species: Paphiopedilum curtisii
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
Side on shot of the flower of Paph. curtisii.
Paphiopedilum curtisii Spotted Leaves
Common Name: Lady Slipper Orchid
Species: Paphiopedilum curtisii
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
The lovely spotted leaves of Paph. curtisii.
Paphiopedilum Magic Lantern
Common Name: Paphiopedilum Cultivar Magic Lantern
Species: Paphiopedilum Magic Lantern
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
A lovely pink Paph. orchid, the lip, dorsal sepal and petals of the flowers are white with pink to purple venation and pink margins.
Cattleya guttata Spotted Cattleya Orchid
Common Name: Spotted Cattleya
Species: Cattleya guttata
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
A pretty straight species Cattleya orchid flower with maroon-speckled, green-tinged yellow sepals and petals, and a purple and white lip.
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