Cirrhopetalum lepidum

Family: Orchidaceae •
Genus: Cirrhopetalum •
Species: lepidum (Bl.) Schltr. •
Country of Origin: southeast Asia •
Common Names: •

This is another one of my mini orchids that has a home in my bedroom window with my other Bulbophyllums. It's in a 4 inch clear plastic pot with a medium-size bark mix. Like most of the Bulbos it has a funky smell when it blooms, sort of like rotten flesh. Please click the pictures to view in the large format.




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Microterangis hariotiana

Family: Orchidaceae •
Genus: Microterangis •
Species: hariotiana (Kraenzl.) Senghas •
Country of Origin: Comoros Islands •
Common Names: •

This is another one of my mini orchids that has a home in my bathroom window. It's in a 4 inch plastic basket with a medium-size bark mix. I just love these miniatures for their small size and a big show of flowers. Please click the pictures to view in the large format, you can really see how small the flowers are by using the pencil for scale.

This genus is found in Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands as a medium sized monopodial epiphyte that is represented with four species that are short-stemmed, densely leafy with oblong or obovate, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically leaves giving rise to many flowered racemose inflorescence with small flowers with the sepals and petals free, similar as well as an entire or dentate lip, a spurred flower with a straight, very short columncarrying 2 pollina with a communal stipe and a very small viscidium.
Found in the Comoros Islands as a minature to small sized, warm growing, epiphytic, monopodial orchid with ligulate, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms on an axillary, pendant, laxly many flowered inflorescence carrying the tiny, yellow-orange flowers below the plant. Flower Size 1/8" [.6 cm]
Synonyms: Angorchis hildebrandtii (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; *Angraecum hildebrandtii Rchb. f. 1878; Chamaeangis hildebrandtii (Rchb. f.) Garay 1972
excerpt from http://www.orchidspecies.com/chamaengishariotiana.htm



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Ascps. Jiahos Orange Jiaho

This beautiful and strange little hybrid blooms multiple times every year. It's a small plant with flowers about 1.5 inches that grow in bunches. Ascps. is short for Asconopsis which is a hybrid of Ascocentrum x Phalaenopsis. I grow it in a terracotta pot with sphagnum moss. This plant is with a group of plants that sit on the windowsill in my bathroom, enjoying all the extra water and humidity. With a southern exposure they get more sun in winter than summer. Please view in the large format to really enjoy the beauty of these flowers.




Family: Orchidaceae •
Genus: Ascocentrum x Phalaenopsis •
Species: Hybrid •
Country of Origin: N/A •
Common Names: Ascps. Jiahos Orange 'Jiaho' •


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Mangifera indica 'Julie'

Family: Anacardiaceae •
Genus: Mangifera •
Species: indica •
Country of Origin: Jamaica •
Common Names: Julie •

More beautiful foliage! This cultivar is a Jamaican favorite. More info in one of my older posts



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Mangifera indica 'Neelum'

Family: Anacardiaceae •
Genus: Mangifera •
Species: indica •
Country of Origin: India •
Common Names: Neelum •

Had to share this beautiful foliage with you! I did a post on the fruit a few weeks back. Enjoy!
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Chrysophyllum cainito Caimito

fourth photo is from
http://www.fairchildgarden.org/


Family: Sapotaceae •
Genus: Chrysophyllum •
Species: cainito (L.) •
Country of Origin: West Indies and Central America •
Common Names: Star Apple, Golden-Leaf Tree, Caimito •

This delicious fruit is also a favorite of the June bugs as you can see by the chewed up leaves pesky little stinkers!

Caimito trees are medium to large trees, 25 to 100 ft tall (7.9 to 30.5 m) with a round to oval canopy. Branches have a weeping growth habit. The leaves are alternate, elliptic, 2 to 6 inches long (5-15 cm), slightly leathery, shiny green on the upper surface and golden-brown on the lower surface.
The flowers are generally held in clusters, arising from the leaf axils. Flowers are very small, greenish-yellow to purplish-white, tubular (5-lobed corolla), with 5–6 sepals.

Fruit may be round to oblate to ellipsoid and 2 to 4 inches in diameter (5-10 cm). The peel may be red-purple, dark-purple, or pale-green. It is smooth, glossy, and leathery. In purple fruits, the inner rind is dark purple, and in green fruits, white. The pulp is white, soft, and milky surrounding 6 to 11 seeds. The seeds are contained in rubbery seed cells, and each seed is surrounded by a gelatinous pulp. When the fruit is cut transversely, the seed cells are seen to radiate outwardly from a central core, producing a star-shaped pattern.
more info on Caimito
edis.ifas.ufl.edu/HS309



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Arrowhead Plant Syngonium podophyllum

Syngonium podophyllum
Family: Araceae •
Genus: Syngonium •
Species: podophyllum (Schott) •
Country of Origin: from Mexico to Panama •
Common Names: African Evergreen, American Evergreen, Arrow Leaf, Arrowhead Vine, Arrowhead-Vine, Goosefoot Plant, Goosefoot Vine, Nephthytis •

I got this little beauty at one of Fairchild's aroid show & sales. There's another coming on Saturday, September 20, 2008 - Sunday, September 21, 2008. If your in the south Florida area I would recommend a visit! I always find something unique when I go so I'm looking forward till then. This vine is taking over a small wall I built by my bananas. I can't complain though because it's beautiful. It's in the shade of the bananas. Also, I have it in a pot which sits inside a dish with a little extra water. It seems to be flourishing!



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Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris

I was out taking pictures yesterday when, I thought I was being attacked by a horsefly. It turned out it was this skipper. So I figured I'd get some shots of it and then I saw its huge proboscis. Wow, it is about two inches long! I tried to get to get a shot of it rolled up but none of them turned out good. To really see it click the pictures to view them in a larger format.



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Aechmea chantinii 'Black Ebony'

Aechmea chantinii 'Black Ebony'
Family: Bromeliaceae •
Genus: Aechmea •
Species: chantinii •
Country of Origin: Hybrid •

One of my favorite bromeliads. Just look at the amazing display this plant puts on. Even when it's not flowering it is beautiful. It's green with white striping on the inside and dark purple with white striping on the outside of the leaves. I have this in the front and back yard where it gets filtered sun. It blooms every year with amazing red & yellow bracts, the flowers seem insignificant by comparison.



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Coral Vine Antigonon leptopus w/Gulf Fritillary Agraulis vanillae

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Light Blue Snakeweed Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

Light-Blue Sankeweed Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
Family: Verbenaceae •
Genus: Stachytarpheta •
Species: jamaicensis (L.) Vahl •
Country of Origin: Endemic to Florida •
Common Names: Blue Porterweed, Light-Blue Snakeweed •

This is one of our native ground covers and I have to tell you the bees and butterflies love it! I like it too! I've moved some of the seedlings to other spots so it will fill in the bare areas.




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Ascocentrum garayi syn. Ascocentrum miniatum

Family: Orchidaceae •
Genus: Ascocentrum •
Species: garayi •
Country of Origin: Southeast Asia •
Synonyms: Ascocentrum miniatum •
Common Names: •

I got this beauty from RF Orchids, probably three or four years ago and it has bloomed consistently every since. It seems there has been a name change since I bought it. Since RF has adopted the new name for the plants they are presently selling. I'll assume mine A. garayi as well. It gets water daily (it's in the shower) and strong filtered light. I only fertilize my orchids once in a blue moon. This is one of my favorite orchids you can see why!!!!


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