Botany help

[marc at getty.net (Marc Getty)]

I'm not botanist but I would have to concur that it very well could be an
orchid.

-Marc
 

-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces+marc=getty.net@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces+marc=getty.net@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of daniel
savatteri
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 10:23 PM
To: roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca; sandor@vwot.org
Cc: Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: Botany help

looks like some kind of orchid to me. Its growing off the tree right? I'm
not a flower pro but don't try moving it. Orchids get thier nutrients from
the surronding air, it won't like any other air but were it first started
its life.

>From: "C Boyko" <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
>Reply-To: roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca
>To: "Sandor" <sandor@vwot.org>
>CC: Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Botany help
>Date: Sun,  8 May 2005 08:22:32 -0400
>
>On 7:27:49 pm 05/07/05 "Sandor" <sandor@vwot.org> wrote:
> > I'll rule out the trillium for ya...provincial flower of ontario and 
> > that's not it.
> > My vote is for the lady slipper
> >
> >
> > sandor
> >
> > >  The flower is in central Virginia.
> > >
> > >  On 5/7/05, John S. Lagnese <jlagnese@massed.net> wrote:
> > >>  Where is this? It could be a tired Jack in the Pulpit.
> > >>  John
> >
>
>Trillium : Liliaceae- has three sepals and three petals, our provincial 
>flower, very symmetrical. That ain't it. (They have three showy petals 
>(erm, tri-llium?), in the case of our provincial flower T. grandiflorum 
>(the big flowered one, grandi-florum), they would be white.)
>
>Jack in the Pulpit: An arum, they have a hooded floral structure, 
>typically green, and if you flip up the hood, there's "jack" standing in
his pulpit.
>Though most church goers would be horrified to see "that" standing in 
>the pulpit. And they have three part leaves, like a trillium. So I'm 
>saying nope.
>
>Lady's sippper: Orchidaceae - now we're cooking with gas. Ans Orchids 
>are not that common, but from a quick look at my handy Audubon guide, 
>I'd say it's the "showy orchis" (Orchis, as a side note, being from the 
>Greek word for testicle)
>
>Anyway, the showy orchis, (Orchis spectabilis) . Leaves are from 
>according to my reference, has 2-15 white and deep lavender flowers on 
>a short floral stalk over two large, glossy green leaves 2 1/2-8", 
>ovate to elliptic, which sheath the stem. Flowers are 1" with 2 lateral 
>petals, and the sepals fused to form a hood of pink or lavender over a 
>white spurred lower lip petal,
>
>sounds about right?
>
>Its range would include Virginia. "The long spur of this beautiful, 
>fragrant Orcid of the rich woods provides a syrup very rich in sugar. A 
>rare Northern species."
>
>I'd advise you go back out there, crawl around and sniff the thing. 
>(and take a ton of pictures!!!) And don't try to transplanting it. Wild 
>orchids generaly resent being moved, and have a very narrow band of 
>cultural requirements, so it'd probably be better off where it is.
>
>FINALLY somehting I feel semi-qualified to comment on...
>
>Cathy
>BSc Physiological and Developmental Botany...
>
>
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