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Odontoglossum luteopurpureum

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Odontoglossum luteopurpureum.

Flower Size 3 to 4" [7.5 to 10 cm]

"Found in Andean Colombia at elevations of 2000 to 3000 meters in wet, cool cloud forests as a large sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with robust, oval, compressed pseduobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 3 basal leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 2 apical, rather rigid, ensiform, acute to acuminate leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect to lateral, many flowered, to 3 1/2' [10,5 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising from the leaf sheaths of a mature pseudobulb and carring to 12, large, waxy, faintly fragrant, highly color-variable flowers."

From: www.orchidspecies.com/odontlut…

Place: José Celestino Mutis Botanical Garden of Bogotá, Colombia
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ2
Image size
1280x960px 615.84 KB
Make
Panasonic
Model
DMC-LZ5
Shutter Speed
10/400 second
Aperture
F/3.7
Focal Length
21 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Jul 3, 2009, 2:06:44 AM
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