In a message dated 8/6/04 6:07:09 AM, nick Plummer writes: > Has anyone on the list ever seen Coryanthes species blooming in nature? > I don't think I ever met one personally, but back in the useful days of the AOS Bulletin, there was an in-depth article about the bucket orchids. They grow up in the trees on a trash basket made of roots, dead leaves, and other scraps. The ants live inside this structure. They drag in leaves and bits of fungus for farming, and in the process provide fertilizer for the orchid. Seeing a good thing, an epiphytic gesneriad occasionally moves in and establishes itself on this arrangement. I don't remember what they said about which way the flowers point. All the pictures I've seen had them growing up. They have to be right side up in order to do that trick where the bee falls in the bucket of nectar and has to crawl back out. Iris ''It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage.'' -- Indiana Jones
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