Orchids for You
These orchids were photographed at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA, one of our favorite day trip destinations. You will always find orchids on display in the Orchid Room in the conservatory.
Subhash Sharma "These exquisite looking Cattleya orchid come from a genus of about 115 different species.The genus was named in 1824 by John Lindley after William Cattley who received and was the first to bloom a specimen of Cattleya labiata. William Swainson had discovered the new plant in Pernambuco, Brazil, in 1817 and shipped to the Glasgow Botanic Gardens for identification. Swainson requested that a few plants be later sent to Cattley, who was able to bloom one a full year before the plants in Glasgow. It would be another 70 years before they would be rediscovered in the wild because of a mix up in the assumed location of the plants. The genus is abbreviated C in trade journals."
Mr. Sharma is a Facebook friend from India. He now lives in Dublin, Ireland and frequently comments on my photographs.
Orchids, Cattleya, 'Froth', Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA USAIMG 0597
Canon PowerShot G11 Camera
Photograph by Roy Kelley
Roy and Dolores Kelley Photographs
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