Chillin With My Cuz

Cousin Diane and her hub Dan have been visiting this weekend. They escaped tge cold of Chicago for a couple chillyd days in Florida. Diane and I have been staying up way to late talking, playing Wii, and drinking tea - it's great!

Coelogyne foerstermanni

Found in Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra and the Moluccas at elevations of sealevel to 500 meters high up on trees in lowlands and lowland montane forests as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with narrow, cylindrical, tapering towards the apex, ribbed pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, erect, lanceolate, acute, plicate, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, grooved, petiolate base leaves and blooms on an erect, basal, stout, to 16" [40 cm] long, many [8 to 15] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and enveloped basally by several close, imbricating sheaths and has persistent floral bracts and simultaneously opening, fragrant flowers. from: http://www.orchidspecies.com/coelfoerstermanni.htm

Third photo: Beautiful 1yo Danica whom I understand is very sweet and needing a forever home.

First & second photos: One of the orchids I bought last week. Mine is not blooming and I don't have batteries for my camera (still) so I am borrrowing someone else's photo from the web. sorry, I can't find where I got them.