Cigar Orchid (Cyrtopodium punctatum)
How it gets its name. In the summer, these orchids lose all their leaves, and the result looks like a clump of cigars attached to the base of a tree or cypress knee. This massive cigar orchid is the biggest I've ever seen!
- Copyright
- Rich Leighton
- Image Size
- 3008x2000 / 6.3MB
- Keywords
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America, beautiful, beauty, Big Cypress National Preserve, botany, Cigar Orchid, Collier County, Cymbideae, Cymbidieae, Cyrtopodium punctatum, endangered, epiphyte, Florida, flower, native, natural, nature, orchid, Orchidaceae, plant, rare, semi-epiphytic, terrestrial, threatened, uncultivated, United States, USA, wild
- Contained in galleries
- Cymbidieae, Cymbidieae
