Coryhopea Wojis Procrastinator and Off the Wall

[Sue]

My two Coryhopea finally bloomed! And both at the same time!

I put together a detailed tour and morphological discussion of both hybrids, with links and tags to demonstrate how the Coryhopea flower forms are recognizably intermediate modifications of the highly specialized structures of genera Coryanthes and Stanhopea. Hope you enjoy it! Link is through this thumbnail:

 

[John Boy]

Outrageous and fascinating as well as strange and beautiful, all in equal shares form me. I love your pictures, it's good to get a 3 dimantional idea about what something like that really looks like.

 

[NYEric]

Thanx for the infomation. It's too bad stanhopeias are short lived.

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Wow, neat set of photos. I like the way you labeled flower parts too!

 

[SlipperFan]

Amazing flower!

 

[Jorch]

Weird but wonderful! :clap: Is it fragrant?

 

[Pete]

what an excellent job you did with that. thanks!
eric- it is a shame, but in my experience what they lack in flower life they often make up for in floriferousness. many of my plants that are up to good size now will be in flower for a month or two at a time even when individual flowers only last 3 days..

 

[jewel]

unusual and yet very lovely! fragrance?

 

[biothanasis]

Well done!!!! :clap:!!! Great result!!