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Anacheilium Chimborazoense
Orchid from our garden. No idea what it is. Pretty though. We've got mammal and bird experts here, but we could do with a botanist...
Cloud Forest Reserve at 1920m
We've got about 150-200 orchids in the garden and we don't know what most of them are.
You are more than welcome, thank you for letting me try ID this one even though I'm not an expert like Craig...I hope you can find the name for all the beautiful flowers in your garden and please keep sharing them with us!
By the way, it's worth noting that Kew does not accept this genus so in some places it will still be listed as an Encyclia.
SantaLucia...according to this site the A. fragrans (also known as Prosthechea fragrans) has a strong smell of honey and vanilla and the Chimborazo "can be easily distinguished from the first one by the spots at the base of the petals and column." I hope you can use the website to properly ID this beautiful flower and many more!
What a beautiful orchid!.
Thought of you Craig as soon as I saw the request ......... happy digging!
Thanks Craig, I'm off up to the reserve next week so I'll take some snaps of whatever it is I see. In the meantime I'll put up some other photos we've already got. It's a long trawl through the photo library...
Thanks for sharing this. It's very beautiful. Orchids are my thing & I'd be really happy to have a look at any orchids you want to try and id. I know there are some others on here, closer to your part of the world with some good orchid knowledge too. I don't recognise this flower but will try and do some digging around.... It really helps to see the vegetative parts of the plant to get to genus and from there sometimes, a species can be determined from the flower. So if you have any more shots of the plant itself, that would be great.
Spotted on Jul 14, 2010
Submitted on Nov 14, 2011
