[Pollinator] bizarre orchides ........mais superbe...!

Mon Aug 25 07:32:22 PDT 2014

Dear Peter:

Please tell Mr Pittillo that virtually all flowers in this series are real
and remain undoctored.  The orchid photos of  Calaana, Dracula, Peristeria,
Habenaria, Orchis, Ophrys and Anguloa are all familiar to me.  Caleana
(found only in Australia) has an irritable labellum (duck head and neck).
 When touched it swings down and carries the pollinator to the column
(sexual organs).  You can hear a distinct click.  Anguloa is less common in
cultivation compared to its "sister genus," Lycaste (the white nun).

Mr. Pittollo might be interested in our new book when it comes out in early
November.

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo18659332.html

The remaining flowers are not orchids at all; Impatiens (balsam family),
Antirrhinum (snap dragon family), Aristolochia (Dutchman's pipe family) and
Calceolaria (snap dragon family).  Peter Kevan may have more to say about
the Aristolochia.  Some calceolarias (all from temperate South America)
became popular bedding plants in Victorian, England. The only species I
can't authenticate immediately is the Antirrhinum that looks like a skull
and the impatiens that looks like two smoochy lips.  That does not mean
they are fakes.  I just can't authenticate them and, most likely, someone
else will.

Peter

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Peter Raven <Peter.Raven at mobot.org> wrote:

> All I can say with certainty is that some of them have not.  For other, I
> don’t know.  Very interesting!
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> Peter Bernhardt will have clear ideas on many of these.
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> Best to you Dan – health holding up o.k.?  Greetings from Pat and me,
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> Peter
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> Peter H. Raven, President Emeritus
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> *From:* Dan Pittillo [mailto:dpittillo at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 24, 2014 3:54 PM
> *To:* Peter Raven; Peter White; Alan Weakley
> *Subject:* Fwd: : bizarre orchides ........mais superbe...!
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> Hey friends, I've seen some imaginary plant forms but am very suspicious
> of these-- Do you think they've been "doctored", at least in some more
> extreme ones?
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> Dan
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> J. Dan Pittillo
> 675 Cane Creek Road
> Sylva, NC 28779
> ph. 828-293-9661
> or 828-226-3091(c)
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> From: <Tmom212 at aol.com>
> Date: Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 3:49 PM
> Subject: Fwd: : bizarre orchides ........mais superbe...!
> To: dpittillo at gmail.com, Jeffreysnead27 at yahoo.com, ssmck at charter.net,
> mil3bern at aol.com
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> > >  *L’orchidée tête de singe (Dracula simia)*
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> *[image: Description:
> http://dailygeekshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fleur-ressemblance-animaux-humain-insolite-nature3.jpg]*
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> *L’orchidée homme nu (Orchis italica)*
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> *[image: Description:
> http://dailygeekshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fleur-ressemblance-animaux-humain-insolite-nature7.jpg]*
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> *La fleur « lèvres de prostituée » (Psychotria elata)*
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> *[image: Description:
> http://dailygeekshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fleur-ressemblance-animaux-humain-insolite-nature10.jpg]*
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> *Des danseuses (Impatiens bequaertii)*
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> *L’orchidée bourdon rieur (Ophrys bomybliflora)*
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> http://dailygeekshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fleur-ressemblance-animaux-humain-insolite-nature12.jpg]*
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> http://dailygeekshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fleur-ressemblance-animaux-humain-insolite-nature14.jpg]*
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> *Des bébés dans les langes (Anguloa uniflora)*
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> http://dailygeekshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fleur-ressemblance-animaux-humain-insolite-nature15.jpg]*
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> *La fleur perroquet (Impatiens psittacina) > >> > *
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> http://dailygeekshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fleur-ressemblance-animaux-humain-insolite-nature17.jpg]*
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> *La fleur tête de mort (Antirrhinum) > >> > *
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> *[image: Description:
> http://dailygeekshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fleur-ressemblance-animaux-humain-insolite-nature19.jpg]*
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> *L’orchidée canard volant (Caleana major)*
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> http://dailygeekshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fleur-ressemblance-animaux-humain-insolite-nature22.jpg]
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> *Des extraterrestres heureux (Calceolaria uniflora)*
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> http://dailygeekshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fleur-ressemblance-animaux-humain-insolite-nature25.jpg][image:
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> http://dailygeekshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fleur-ressemblance-animaux-humain-insolite-nature26.jpg]*
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> *L’orchidée colombe (Peristeria elata)*
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> [image: Description:
> http://dailygeekshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fleur-ressemblance-animaux-humain-insolite-nature30.jpg]
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> *Une orchidée qui ressemble à une danseuse étoile*
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> http://dailygeekshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fleur-ressemblance-animaux-humain-insolite-nature32.jpg]*
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> *L’orchidée aigrette blanche (Habenaria radiata)*
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> http://dailygeekshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fleur-ressemblance-animaux-humain-insolite-nature34.jpg]
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> *La fleur Dark Vador** (Aristolochia salvadorensis)*
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