Friday Orchid Blogging

Encyclia fragrans

I haven't had anything blooming in a while, and cut back on the orchid buying a while back - so I could winnow my collection to a smaller number of plants I really liked. This is a plant I got years ago, and it's blooming for the first time - this guy likes a lot of light, and I suspect having it outside for six months this unusually temperate year did it some good. It's called Encyclia fragrans, and it's a species (i.e., not a man-made hodge podge of various species, but a pure species in and of itself). It's a fragrant plant, more so during the day. It's a bit wintergreen scented. If you look at the pictures below, you'll see the flowers in various stages of opening on the right and left side of the photo.



And below is the entire plant. Orchids are not the prettiest of plants. Which only makes the flowers that much more stunning.



Enjoy.