Brassavola nodosa
As promised, my new post today is another orchid of the genus, Brassavola, specifically, Brassavola nodosa, or as Arne calls it, the reluctant bloomer.
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| A) October 31st, four flower buds developed |
This orchid is a native of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana and French Guinea. It is also known as "Lady of the night" because in early evenings, the flowers exude a citrus and gardenia-like fragrant. This fragrance is thought to attract moths for pollination, which is very likely.
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| B) By Nov. 1st, one of the buds opened. Normally we should have many more flowers but considering we wanted to 'dispose' of this specimen, this is a success! |
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| C) Two beautifully shaped flowers, Nov. 7th. |
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| D) To better capture the definition of these white flowers, we took the pictures outside with natural light. |
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| E) The span from petal tip to petal tip across is almost 4 inches across. |
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| F) Our Brassavola nodosa tonight. All four flowers in full bloom and exuding a pleasant citrus fragrance. |
I hope you have enjoyed the beauty of our reluctant bloomer. Who knows, it may produce even more flowers in the future. I'm certainly glad we kept this orchid around as Arne thought it was purely vegetative a year ago. Until my next post, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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