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Dancing Doll Orchid

Erycina pusilla

Photo by ceherzog
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Field Notes

Description:

Small plants with fan-like leaf arrangement.

Habitat:

Ecuadorian lowlands: Sacha Lodge

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Comments (5)
ceherzog
Lueba, I know that they used to sell gold casts of Oncidium (former generic name) orchids at the botanical garden where I worked . I have one too. Do you know where yours came from? I know they were selling them at the Singapore Botanical Garden. BTW, these flowers are no more than 1".
Leuba Ridgway
Lovely orchids - the whole arrangement, like Alice says in her comment, looks beautiful, too. I was given a pendant with a small gold-plated orchid inside it - I think set in acrylic or similar. The orchid looked very much like the one in this spotting. Yours is probably a little too big. Anyway, they are beautiful Claire.
ceherzog
Maybe because other flowers in the genus are called Dancing Ladies...they're on a spray and the orchids look like a group of dancers...these are are smaller, like a little doll?
Bernadette S
Interesting! Any idea why it's called Dancing Doll?

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PublishedMarch 6, 2013

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