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Hilo Orchid Society
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On ‘the orchid isle’ the island of Hawaii. aka ’the Big Island’.
In-person meetings, Kamana Senior Center, Hilo, 2nd Sat.
Want to be a member? $20 individual, to P.O. Box 4294, Hilo, Hi. 96720
🌴😎🏄🌈🌺 http://hiloorchidsociety.org
Today’s #orchid:
Coelogyne lawrenciana, grown by an HOS member.
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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#Flowers_and_Plants

Philodendron patriciae
Photo courtesy of Ecuagenera Araceae.
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been hated by the left for years and never feared for her life. She’s been hated by the right for two days and had to hire security.
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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More temptation.

Phalaenopsis hybrid (NoID)

#orchid #flowers #gardening #nature #bloomscrolling #photography #macrophotopraphy 📷🌱🌴🪴sky
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Another rainy morning, which I like, and this is what the orchid shelf is looking like. I need to rearrange everything to fit in a big Sharry Baby that needs better/more light to bloom...but that seems like too big a project right now...
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Today’s #orchid:
Pleurothallis titan, grown by one of our HOS members.
November 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Or just move them to a minimum security Club Fed and give them a puppy and yoga classes.
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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#Flowers_and_Plants
Lovely blue jade vine flowers.
Photos by the great Clark Little.
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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More beautiful orchids from NW Sicily in April 2019 (those days before we'd ever heard of Covid). Ophrys bombyliflora, Ophrys tenthredinifera, Ophrys x fernandii, Orchis papilionacea. @europeanorchids.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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This is a new spike of flowers on this orchid.

Phalaenopsis hybrid (NoID - maybe Fuller’s Black Leopard?) ‘Anne’s Resilience’

#orchid #flowers #gardening #nature #bloomscrolling #photography #macrophotopraphy 📷🌱🌴🪴sky
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Sorting out old photos, including these from Easter 2019 in Sicily (which was colder than the UK!). Orchis brancifortii, Orchis italica, Neotinea lactea, Serapias vomeracea all from the stupendously rich turf between Trapani and Zingaro, NW Sicily. @europeanorchids.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Khanna: "The speaker looked frazzled last night. I think he's totally lost it. He's attacking the bill and he's not showing up to hear the survivors. The survivors wanted this bill. Then he's voting for a bill he criticized. And he's lost the confidence of half the people in his own caucus."
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Sun is out intermittently this morning...
Phalaenopsis Lianher Cranberry

#orchids #bloomscrolling #flowers #blooms #mini-phal #mothorchid
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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#Orchids are #flowers, too.
Cattleya Ruth Bader Ginsberg 'Supreme Court'.
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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This orchid has multiple leads and is flowering from most of them.

Cattleya trianae var. coerulea x sib

#orchid #flowers #gardening #nature #bloomscrolling #photography #macrophotopraphy 📷🌱🌴🪴sky
November 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Today’s #orchid:
An unusual Cymbidium, growing in a friend’s yard, near Kalapana. I’ve never seen a lip like this on a Cymbidium.
November 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Today’s #orchid:
Paphiopedilum Little Trouble
(charlesworthii alba x barbigerum 'China Doll’)
This is a small, mini Paph.
Photo by one of our members.
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Epidendrum glossaspis was found on the roadside leading up to Gualaceo 🇪🇨 . It is interesting this is non-resupinate meaning the flowers do not turn round 180 degrees during development leaving the lip in uppermost position! 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Pink sun orchids (Thelymitra carnea) near the Genoa River, East Gippsland, VIC. Quite a common species around Genoa in both heathland and open grassland - often combining with other blue-flowering sun orchids growing nearby to form interesting hybrids. #orchids #inthefield #ozplants
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Thelymitra macrophylla - Scented Sun Orchid

I haven't seen too many Scented Sun Orchids this year. In good years you can find them with numerous bluish purple, fragrant flowers. Endemic to the southwest of Western Australia
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #nature
November 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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In Bloom: Cattleya C. G. Roebling 'Sentinel' (gaskelliana x purpurata). A very old hybrid created in 1895. Smells like baby powder. First time bloom.
#orchids
#cattleya
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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I am excited for the Cymbidium flowering season. This was another Costco plant on sale.

Cymbidium hybrid (NoID)

#orchid #flowers #gardening #nature #bloomscrolling #photography #macrophotopraphy #365photo 📷🌱🌴🪴sky
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM