What's in the Clouds? in The 2015 All Things Plants Photo Contest: Tropicals and Orchids: Photo by rocklady

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@rocklady submitted this image in the Tropicals and Orchids category of the The 2015 All Things Plants Photo Contest.

HoosierHarvester

Dec 9, 2015 12:08 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kayleigh
(Zone 5a)

Debra enjoys seeing things in photos. I think that's fun too. Does this unique orchid(?) look like anything to anyone else? Makes me curious as to it's name.

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rocklady

Dec 9, 2015 7:00 PM CST

Name: Jean
Hot Springs Vlg, AR, DeLand, F

@HoosierHarvester It is a paphiopedilum (lady slipper orchid).

Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.

"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam

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HoosierHarvester

Dec 9, 2015 7:03 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kayleigh
(Zone 5a)

It is so sweet! It looks like a giraffe to me, but maybe the cartoon type.

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needrain

Dec 9, 2015 9:48 PM CST

Name: Donald
Eastland county, Texas (Zone 8a)

HoosierHarvester said:It is so sweet! It looks like a giraffe to me, but maybe the cartoon type.

That's what I see. A lady giraffe wearing a lady's cap and a bit cross-eyed, definitely a cartoon type! That's a cool bloom with lots of detail showing in the photo.

Donald

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rocklady

Dec 10, 2015 8:21 AM CST

Name: Jean
Hot Springs Vlg, AR, DeLand, F

@needrain Donald, That is a perfect definition, especially the cross-eyed part!

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HoosierHarvester

Dec 10, 2015 10:01 AM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kayleigh
(Zone 5a)