Well, back in May, the girlfriend and I went to Panama to visit my brother and I spend 20% of the time drinking, 20% of the time looking for monkeys, and 60% of the time staring at trees looking for orchids!
Saw lots of things that looked like orchids: green things stuck on trees, but only found one that had a flower. So here it is:
It's been many months and I've learned so much about orchids since then, that I figured NOW I'd be able to identify it in a whiz bang. I was wrong! So I took to the net.
I searched for native Panamanian orchids and found a few different sites and one had a picture of an orchid so similar that it had to be the one.
Encyclia baculus!
When I search for that, a lot of results come up as Prosthechea baculus! Orchid nomenclature is so confusing. I guess they're the same thing. But why so many different names? It's enough to give a plant personality issues.
We found little baculus on the Northern coast while visiting Fort San Lorenzo. He was attached to a tree beside a trail of leaf cutter ants:
And right next to our feral tour guide El Gato:
And don't worry. I saw a monkey.
Native Panamanian: Encyclia or Prosthechea baculus!
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