Costa Rica vacation ( yes there are in situ orchids)

[Gilda]

Wow, what an adventure. I didn't see many orchids at all when I was there. But we were mainly on the coast near the beach. It would have been so tempting to save those orchids...darn CITES.

That side of Costa Rica is the dry side.....looks like a desert compared to the Central Valley and the cloud forests. I would think not as many orchids grow there.

 

[Gilda]

Great pics and info! Very sad about the orchids! That's enough to make smugglers out of all of us!!

LOL ..The orchids are just as well off dying in their own country as in my dry conditions..no way I could grow any of those !

 

[Gilda]

Sounds like a great vacation. Too bad about the discarded orchids. The first one (being held) appears to be Trigonidium egertonianum.

Wendy, you do know your orchids ! It is what you said. :clap:I checked the note the guy wrote and I had read his writing wrong.