Southwest Mexico orchid ID's please - Orchid Board

Hunter-MX · #1 02-05-2011, 12:10 AM

Hello all. I am new to the board but would like to post from time to time to get ID's on orchids I find here in Guerrero, Mexico. I have a small ecotour company and orchids are quite abundant on many of my tours and I would love to be able to tell folks what they are!

Here are 3 to start. Thank you in advance.

SOS · #2 02-05-2011, 03:41 AM

#3 Guarianthe aurantiaca?

RobS · #3 02-05-2011, 05:07 AM

1 Mormodes?

2 Epidendrum difforme

3 Guarianthe aurantiaca syn Cattleya

Hunter-MX · #4 02-09-2011, 10:21 AM

Thanks for the help with these. Is that pretty firm on the first one or just a maybe? I will have some others soon, I assume they do not need to be in bloom right?

stonedragonfarms · #5 02-09-2011, 11:49 AM

It helps if they are in bloom; some of the Tribes are near impossible to identify when not in bloom

RobS · #6 02-09-2011, 02:16 PM

Like 90% sure on the first I expected some of the locals with a better knowledge of this group of orchids to provide the correct name. For sure it's a Catasetinae.