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The Green Spider Orchid


The Green Spider Orchid
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Copyright: kapil jadhav (kapil) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 102 W: 45 N: 67] (500)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-05-13
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Exposure: f/3.5, 1/60 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-02-03 9:19
Viewed: 496
Points: 14
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Brassia
Brassia is a genus of orchids classified in the Oncidiinae subtribe. The genus was named after William Brass, a British botanist and illustrator, who collected plants in Africa under the supervision of Sir Joseph Banks. Its abbreviation in the horticultural trade is Brs.

Brassia species and its popular hybrids are common in cultivation, and are notable for the characteristic long and spreading tepals (in some clones longer than 50 cm), which lend them the common name "spider orchid".

This epiphytic genus occurs in South Florida, the West-Indies and tropical America, in wet forests from sea level to altitudes under 1500 m, with the Peruvian Andes as its center. Occurrence is mostly restricted to a certain area, but Brassia caudata can be found over the whole geographic area.

They have large elliptic-oblong pseudobulbs with one or two leaves at the apex, lateral, unbranched many-flowered inflorescences with small floral bracts. The lip is not attached to the column. The pollinarium shows a narrow stipe. There are two distichous, foliaceous sheaths around the base, from which the inflorescence emerges.

Brassia has a very specific method for pollination : it uses entomophily : pollination by insects and in this case specifically by female spider-hunter wasps of the genera Pepsis and Campsomeris. Mistaken by the mimicry of Brassia, the wasp stings the lip, while trying to grasp its prey without any success. By these movements the wasp comes into contact with the pollinarium, that then sticks to its head. By flying to another Brassia flower, this flower gets pollinated

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Hi kapil

They look like 3 dancing girls in yellow & green costumes, from the thumbnail. Excellent sharpness & dof, with superb colour. Tfs!

Hi Kapil.
Excellent MACRO.nice colours and details,well composed,good job
Best Regards & TFS

* Piotr *

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  • juyona Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 2646 W: 1 N: 1268] (15457)
  • [2007-02-04 3:53]

Buen trabajo y agradables detalles, buena presentación... saludos Kapil

Salut Kapil
Jolie orchidée,Et beau montage.
Bravo
;o)

thats great, they look like bugs! nice colors

The two on the right is very good and sharp and the left one looks a bit soft
But it is an excellent composition and colors

cool cool indeed. here in my house we have a little something like that except smaller and black.
TFS
otti

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