Orchid Show - part 2

G-san graciously shared tickets to the orchid show at the New York Botanical Garden. Apparently orchids have been around for over 80 million years. The display was impressively diverse - some reminded me of iris, others of daffodils, or even pansies. They were large and small, striped, spotted, and variegated....

Here's the second half of my pictures from the show.

Note the long, trailing "moustache" of the lower petals:

I liked the twisted ribbons here:

A nice range of yellow/orange:

Light and shadow:

Fine lines on the veins:
Periwinkle with white spots:
Violet:
Yellow with pink and orange:

Here the blossoms are more like a bird of paradise or lotus:
Pinks against the greenhouse roof:

Iris/star shape:
An inkblot trio:

Elegantly curved:
Purple seed pods....
...and a closeup of their flower:
A series of star shapes:
... frillier...
and more spotted:
These had very long, thin spidery petals:

The coloring here reminds me of coleus:
Overhead against the glorious sunshine on a cold winter-spring day:

The columns of these orchids were kind of cool - it looks like a leopard head closeup:


This one shows the column a bit closer:


An orchid named after Joan Didion - how cool is that?!