Thanks Colin for expressing your disgust about the info on cigar orchids. While I am in the US, I had no clue, either. A bit of internet searching pulled up the following link with the description and a picture. It is a cute little bugger.
http://www.killerplants.com/plant-of-the-week/20050606.asp "The cigar or cowhorn orchid (/Cyrtopodium punctatum/ (L.) Lindley) is an epiphyte of open, sunlit swamps. The vernacular comes from the old pseudobulbs: bare of leaves and turning yellow, they extend like so many horns or cigars from the trunks of cypress trees. Cowhorns range from Argentina north into southern Mexico and through the Caribbean into the swamps of southern Florida. The cowhorn blooms on an inflorescence that arises at the base of the pseudobulb. From a distance, the huge sprays of flowers are said to resemble bees hovering around a hive." Regards, John J. Rupp Colin Hamilton wrote: > "Dear God, I wish journalists, and those feeding information to > journalists, would use the correct names of orchids they write about. Not > being from Florida, I have absolutely no idea what orchid this story is > about. Someone care to enlighten me? > > Thanks > > Colin Hamilton" > _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
