Encyclia tampensis
 

Found these on Friday afternoon out in Everglades National Park. I was hoping to come across other orchids to photograph, but only managed to see the butterflies. Not that I'm complaining because I saw thousands of individual plants, some of which were absolutely huge.

Justin.....how about these....






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Wow - that really is an incredibly huge Butterfly. It reminds me of a dinosaur. Thanks for sharing!

:yikes: That's a beautiful specimen! Good find & Thanks for posting! I sincerely hope that one day you get to photograph and post the same plant in flower!!

Tindomul, June is usually when Enc. tampensis blooms.

thats really neat finding orchids in the wild :)

I got to looking at Texas native orchids and says we have 45 orchids here..I might go out and look for some of them..looks like fun, if nothing else I get out and do something different :)

also states "please dont pick the plants"..I wouldnt think of it!!! pictures will last me much longer :biggrin:

Here's a few other pics from the same area.

Here are some single baby growths




And here is an extremely old growth about 5' away on a different tree. The great great great great great granddaddy of the little ones perhaps




I'll be back out there in the next 2 months to shoot them all in bloom. It's surely going to be a sight to see.


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