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Category: Orchid

Seeding is Believing

by exploreorcaAugust 16, 2022

This Florida butterfly orchid (Encyclia tampensis) was flowering and forming seed pods in the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory parking lot. We tend to look for Nature in parks and conservation areas and not where we park. Marylou Rethman (Class of…

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Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Orchid, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area encyclia tampensis, Florida butterfly orchid

Orchid Outing

by exploreorcaJune 28, 2022

Florida butterfly orchids (Encyclia tampensis) are easy to overlook. They are not the large gaudy orchids of prom corsages of bygone days. We saw lots of Florida butterfly orchids at the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area when we visited on…

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Now in Flower

by exploreorcaJune 30, 2020

  Now is the time when Florida butterfly orchids (Encyclia tampensis) bloom, and the large live oaks (Quercus virginiana) at the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area held an abundance of beautiful blooms along with Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) and southern needleleaf…

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Orchid, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area encyclia tampensis, Florida butterfly orchid

Going to Seed: Butterfly Orchids

by exploreorcaJuly 22, 2019

The butterfly orchids (Encyclia tampensis) at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA)  are beginning to form seed pods.  A group of 12 people braved the heat to take an orchid walk on Sunday, 7/21/2019, and were well-rewarded with lots of…

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