Cigar Orchid (Cyrtopodium punctatum)
This incredible orchid has a long history of being taken from the wild for the orchid trade. There are stories of single plants weighing hundreds of pounds being pulled out of the Everglades by the wagon load. These days, small ones are difficult to find.
- Copyright
- Rich Leighton
- Image Size
- 4288x2848 / 9.4MB
- 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
