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Bulbophyllum medusae, commonly known as the Medusa orchid, is a species of epiphytic orchid with a creeping rhizome and a single leaf about 100 mm (3.9 in) long emerging from the top of each pseudobulb. The flowers are creamy yellow and arranged in clusters of about fifteen arranged in a circle at the tip of the flowering stem.
Bulbophyllum is a genus of mostly epiphytic and lithophytic orchids in the family Orchidaceae. It is the largest genus in the orchid family and one of the largest genera of flowering plants with more than 2,000 species, exceeded in number only by Astragalus.
Circumscissile – a type of fruit that dehisces, where the top of the fruit falls away like a lid or covering. Dehiscent – a fruit that opens and releases its contents, normally in a regular and distinctive fashion. Endocarp – includes the wall of the seed chamber, the inner part of the pericarp. Pyrena – the hardened endocarp of a drupe.
Calypso is a genus of orchids containing one species, Calypso bulbosa, known as the calypso orchid, fairy slipper or Venus's slipper. It is a perennial member of the orchid family found in undisturbed northern and montane forests .
Eulophia graminea, the Chinese crown orchid, is a species of orchid native to Asia. It often develops a pseudobulb . It is considered invasive in Florida and spreads with wood chip mulch. [ 2 ]
The male orchid bees (not the females) are attracted to the flower by a strong scent from aromatic oils, which they store in specialized spongy pouches inside their swollen hind legs, as they appear to use the scent in their courtship dances in order to attract females. The bees, trying to get the waxy substance containing the scent, sometimes ...
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In botany, a pseudobulb is a storage organ found in many epiphytic and terrestrial sympodial orchids.It is derived from a thickening of the part of a stem between leaf nodes and may be composed of just one internode or several, termed heteroblastic and homoblastic respectively.