David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Unidentified Lepanthes species in situ during an EXCEPTIONAL 14 DAYS TOUR I guided for the French Orchid Federation with Nature Experience and Tolima Biodiversa Expediciones (235 WILD ORCHID SPECIES BLOOMING). Here in Tolima department, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Lepanthes rhynchion in situ during an EXCEPTIONAL 14 DAYS TOUR I guided for the French Orchid Federation with Nature Experience and Tolima Biodiversa Expediciones (235 WILD ORCHID SPECIES BLOOMING). Here in Tolima department, Colombia.
BarryFackler: Christmas tree plant
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Lepanthes affine pleurothallopsis in situ during an EXCEPTIONAL 14 DAYS TOUR I guided for the French Orchid Federation with Nature Experience and Tolima Biodiversa Expediciones (235 WILD ORCHID SPECIES BLOOMING). Here in Tolima department, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Dracula chestertonii flowers (handled straight, not cut) in situ during a 5 days orchids, botany and nature observation tour I just guided for 2 persons living in USA. We saw 73 orchid species blooming in situ. Valle del Cauca department, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Colourful and with a not very pleasant wet wood scent, Bulbophyllum bicolor flowering at home. Pretty easy to grow in temperate to warm climate, not very water demanding compared to local orchids. Distribution: south China, Taiwan, Laos, Thaíland, Vietnam
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: A rarer Pleurothallis perijaensis variety, paler pinkish rather than red, in situ during a 5 days orchids, botany and nature observation tour I guided for 2 persons living in USA. We saw 73 orchid species blooming in situ. Valle del Cauca dept, Colombia.
ali eminov: Tropical plants, Huntington Botanical Gardens, Pasadena
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Colourful and with a not very pleasant wet wood scent, Bulbophyllum bicolor flowering at home. Pretty easy to grow in temperate to warm climate, not very water demanding compared to local orchids. Distribution: south China, Taiwan, Laos, Thaíland, Vietnam
BarryFackler: cheerful
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Otoglossum gobuilferum in situ during during a 5 days orchids, botany and nature observation tour I just guided for 2 persons living in USA. We saw 73 orchid species blooming in situ. Valle del Cauca department, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: As simple as efficient, the beauty of Andesanthus lepidotus (synonym Tibouchina lepidota, Melastomataceae family). Locally called "Siete Cueros" (seven skins) for its bark often renews. Valle del Cauca department, Colombia. Distribution: Panama to Peru.
SDRPhoto321: Ground Orchids
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: The recently described miniature Lepanthes gloriagaleanoana in situ during a 5 days orchids, botany and nature observation tour I just guided for 2 persons living in USA. We saw 73 orchid species blooming in situ. Valle del Cauca department, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: The miniature Stelis purpurea in situ during a 5 days orchids, botany and nature observation tour I just guided for 2 persons living in USA. We saw 73 orchid species blooming in situ. Valle del Cauca department, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Dracula chestertonii in situ during a 5 days orchids, botany and nature observation tour I just guided for 2 persons living in USA. We saw 73 orchid species blooming in situ. Valle del Cauca department, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: The miniature Psygmorchis crista-galli in situ during a 5 days orchids, botany and nature observation tour I just guided for 2 persons living in USA. We saw 73 orchid species blooming in situ. Valle del Cauca department, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: The incredible verrucose callus of the lip of Epidendrum weerakitianum in situ ! I observed it for the first time in the forest where I live on a Christmas walk, although we already had it registered further north. Endemic (exclusive) from Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Anthurium sp. with an almost black flower in situ during a 5 days orchids, botany and nature observation tour I guided for 2 persons. We saw 73 orchid species blooming in situ in Valle del Cauca department, Colombia.
BarryFackler: Autumn colors in Hawai'i
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Xylobium corrugatum in situ during an EXCEPTIONAL 14 DAYS TOUR I guided for the French Orchid Federation with Nature Experience and Tolima Biodiversa Expediciones (191 WILD ORCHID SPECIES BLOOMING) in Colombia. Tolima. department.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: The incredible verrucose callus of the lip of Epidendrum weerakitianum in situ ! I observed it for the first time in the forest where I live on a Christmas walk, although we already had it registered further north. Endemic (exclusive) from Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Just some flowers of a much longer inflorescence of a Stelis sp. in situ. A little bit of the miniature world, somewhat "alien" looking isn't it ? Carchi Province , Ecuador.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: The incredible verrucose callus of the lip of Epidendrum weerakitianum in situ ! I observed it for the first time in the forest where I live on a Christmas walk, although we already had it registered further north. Endemic (exclusive) from Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: I remade pics of Cattleya lueddemanniana at home. This time with morning sun, it changes a lot the colors compared to older ones I made in the end of the afternoon (see in comments), Interesting to see how light has a strong influence from the same place
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Kohleria affinis (Gesneriaceae family). Extraordinary plant, so elegant and proliferous old specimen in well conserved cloud forest ! Seen during a 5 days orchids, botany and nature observation tour I guided for 2 persons in Valle del Cauca dept, Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: The miniature Platystele calantha in situ without flash use, just the sun, during a 5 days orchids, botany and nature observation tour I just guided for 2 persons living in USA. We saw 73 orchid species blooming in situ. Valle del Cauca dept, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: I remade pics of Cattleya lueddemanniana at home. This time with morning sun, it changes a lot the colors compared to older ones I made in the end of the afternoon (see in comments), Interesting to see how light has a strong influence from the same place
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia: Trichopilia hennisiana in situ during a very diversified 30 days tour I guided last year for Nature Experience, managing to observe more than 300 orchid species blooming in situ more many other endemic plants, birds, insects. Colombia.
JoeCollver: Flame of the Forest | Spathodea campanulata