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    Yellow Fringeless Orchid (Platanthera integra)

    Sometimes known as Habenaria integra, this is a native of wet pinelands, roadsides, prairies, and fens from central Florida into New Jersey. You can read more about the trip to photograph these on my blog site: The Florida Native Orchid Blog Thanks for looking! ---Prem
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    One of This Season's Last Ghost Orchids

    I had despaired photographing any ghost orchid flowers this year, having schedule difficulties preventing me from making the swamps during peak season. An unfortunate and yet fortunate car breakdown coming back from the COS symposium made it where we had to return to the Naples area yesterday...
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    7/24 - Coalition for Orchid Species Symposium, Fairchild Gardens, Coral Gables, FL

    July 24, 2011 8 am to 4 pm Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden In the Garden Room 10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables, FL For reservations call Erna Maxwell, 305-382-3055 Tickets: $45.00 for COS members $50.00 for non-COS members Price includes lectures, raffles, continental breakfast...
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    New blog entry - Cranefly Orchid (Tipularia discolor)

    I have updated the Florida Native Orchid Blog with an entry covering a common, but interesting, native woodland orchid. It is quite widepsread, growing from Michigan all the way down to just north of Ocala, Florida. I remember when I first discovered these growing near a stream that I often...
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    New blog entry - Spiranthes odorata and Ponthieva racemosa

    Just did a trip yesterday to an area in central Florida that is host to these two species. I posted a new blog entry which contains even more photos than shown above: The Florida Native Orchid Blog ---Prem
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    Habenaria quinqueseta

    I happened to come across a post in a gardening forum where someone in the Brooksville, FL area was asking for the ID of a particular plant in her yard, wondering if it was an orchid. It turned out she had Habenaria quinqueseta growing in her yard. I requested to go to her house and...
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    Blog Updates - White Fringed, Orange Fringed, etc.

    White Fringed Orchid (Platanthera blephariglottis v. conspicua): I have updated my blog with the remainder of the 'Holding Court With Royalty' series detailing the showy Platanthera orchids found in the boggy areas of Florida. Attached is one photo of the Queen of the Bog, Platanthera...
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    Snowy Orchid (Platanthera nivea) - Blog update

    I have updated my blog with part 1 of a multi-part series covering the royal court of the bog orchids - the Platantheras. Our first visit is to the delicate, early-rising princess, Platanthera nivea, variously known as Habenaria nivea and Gymnadeniopsis nivea. Here is one of the photos taken...
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    Blog updates - Long-horned orchid and Three Birds Orchid

    I have updated by blog with images from a recent trip to photograph the king of all the NA Habenarias with two-inch wide flowers and six-inch long nectaries. Here is one photo as a teaser: The rest of the photos can be seen on my blog: Florida's Native Orchids Two years ago, I was...
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