How small is a miniature orchid?
The topic of how small a miniature orchid flower is (such as lepanthes sp.) came up a few times, so I figured to dedicate this somewhat failed shot to show some perspective. The muddy diagonal brown tig at the left of the frame is about the size of a human index finger. In this scene are 4 miniature orchid flowers, of which 2 are in focus. They are orange/pink.
Surely you'll be able to find them, knowing they are there, but I hope this illustrates how easy to miss they are.
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Found in Colombia and western Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2100 to 3600 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender to stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 17, minutely ciliate-scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical-oblong to elliptical ovate, acute to obtuse, shortly or slightly acuminate, cuneate below and contracted into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at any time of the year on a slender,.. more
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