This Christmas was spent in Spain with my family. We visited the Orchidarium in Estepona! 🇪🇸Over the next few posts I would like to expand on a few of my favorites! To see more of the Orchidarium and many more orchids please visit my photography blog The Daily Encounters!
Comparettia speciosa is an epiphytic species of orchid. That means it grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water or from debris accumulating around it. It is native to Ecuador and Peru, However this specimen is from the Moyobamba cloud forests.
These orange summer blooms are suspended from a pseudobulbs on a delicate racemose inflorescence (A type of flowering shoot in which the growing region at the tip of the flower stalk continues to produce new flower buds during growth. As a result, the oldest flowers are at the base of the stalk.) 12" or longer with up to 8 flowers that can branch out and reflower.
