| Sky-Blue Rhynchostylis |
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| File size | 102148 |
| Original date | 5/17/12 6:02 AM |
| Resolution | 712 x 534 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 9.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS REBEL T2i |
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Botanical name: Rhynchostylis coelestis Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Vanda pseudocaerulescens, Saccolabium coeleste
Synonyms: Vanda pseudocaerulescens, Saccolabium coeleste
Sky-Blue Rhynchostylis is a small sized, cool to
hot growing orchid dwelling on trees, with a stem carrying several,
strap-like, fleshy, alternate leaves. Its generic name comes from
“rhynchos" meaning beak and “stylis", meaning column. It refers to the
beaked column on the flowers of the species from which the genus
derived its name. The plant blooms on an erect to arcuate, densely many
flowered, racemose inflorescence in leaf axil. Flowers are waxy,
fragrant Sky-Blue Rhynchostylis is found in Thailand, Cambodia and
Vietnam in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and
savana-like woodlands at elevations up to 700 meters.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in Genepool Garden at Gudalur, Nilgiris |
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