Kurt Metzger

"The Puppetmaster" - an apropos nickname, don't you think? This is Bulbophyllum macrorhopalon Schltr., from section Epicrianthes. #nature is my #garden with all the #amazing #tropical #orchids, #plants and #flowers of Papua New Guinea!

@FlorestaAoi 💯 Happy!

幸せの黄色いデンドロ 不定期に咲いてくれます Dendrobium lowii

@tokyo_orchids 👌

@orchidsofkurt It seems that some people are identifying a very similar plant as Dendrobium convexipes. identify.plantnet.org/ja/k-world-flo…

パプアの青いデンドロの花が今年も綺麗に咲きました💮 春以降ちらほら不定期に咲きますが、暑くなる前のこの時期が一番きれいだと思います😊 だいぶ実物に近い感じの色に写せました Den. sp. aff. azureum SECTION Calyptrochilus

@tokyo_orchids There is one other species we can compare it to - Dendrobium convexipes J.J.Sm (orchidsnewguinea.com/orchid-informa…)

@orchidsofkurt Thank you! Yes, the lip is shorter than the column. The size of the tepals is also about the same as described. The description of the flower color doesn’t quite match the description of the type specimen, but it closely resembles the illustration.

@tokyo_orchids It's not D. azureum but you can compare your flowers with Dendrobium purpureoflavescens Ormerod. I can't make out from the pictures, but is the lip shorter than the column? For reference see : orchidsnewguinea.com/orchid-informa…

@orchidsofkurt ありがとうございます！ もし種名が判れば教えてください😊

@tokyo_orchids It's not D. azureum, but you can compare what you have with Dendrobium purpureoflavescens Ormerod. Is the lip shorter than the column? I can't quite make that out from the pictures. For reference see: orchidsnewguinea.com/orchid-informa…

@Phytotaxa Wow, that's quite the expansion!

Expansion of Habenaria to include Cooktownia, Diplomeris, Herminium, Pecteilis and Peristylus (#Habenariinae; #Orchidaceae) #taxonomy doi.org/10.11646/phyto…

@HTorchidN Pollinium or anther cap? Either way the colours and shape are wonderful!

Dendrobium scoriarum この飛び出た葯帽が好き❗️ 虫さんに取ってももらえなくて意地になって取れやすいように飛び出したのかな？って勝手な想像してたら可愛く思える☺️

@ntbrown01 @ShireFlier @SecDuffy There's copper in the ethernet cables, right??? 🤔😂

@ShireFlier @SecDuffy It’s the other end of the same cable. The bottom device is the LTE modem in the top device is the switch.

🔌 WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THIS 👀 COPPER OUT, FIBER IN Old copper wires are being RETIRED  — and replaced with light-speed fiber built for the future A system that is more modern, faster, and far more resilient for THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRAVEL ✈️

2/ ​​Dendrobium species from section Biloba ° ° #nature is my #garden with all the #amazing #tropical #orchids, #plants and #flowers of Papua New Guinea! 🌺🌿🇵🇬

1/ ​This is a ​n​ice little ​Dendrobium species from section Biloba (formerly sect. Monanthos) blooming in the garden. While individual flowers aren’t particularly striking on their own, a well-flowered plant is truly wonderful! It is a small​ epiphyte that is ​f​ound growing in the montane forests of the surrounding highlands (1,600–1,900m). Section Biloba, which includes about 36 species in New Guinea, is highly uniform. ​Interesting characteristics of species in the section include densely packed, thin stems that are often laterally flattened, thick roots, and ​b​i-lobed leaves. The flowers typically bloom simultaneously along the upper half of the stem multiple times a year. ° ° #nature is my #garden with all the #amazing #tropical #orchids, #plants and #flowers of Papua New Guinea! 🌺🌿🇵🇬

@LA_souya Very cool!

Diastema cf. fimbratiloba【LA1017-05】

@UK_Boothby 👌

First flowering of my Specklinia remotiflora [Pupulin & Karremans, 2012], part of the Specklinia endotrachys species complex. Found from Costa Rica to Colombia, with fleshy sepals that are densely papillose. #Orchidaceae (doi.org/10.11646/phyto…)

@616Art 💯

@orchidsofkurt Praying mantis vibes 😎

1/ This is not the nicest-shaped flower of this species that I grow, but it is noteworthy due to the strikingly dark colours. Bulbophyllum nitidum Schltr., from section Codonosiphon, is a relatively large (for the section) endemic epiphyte found growing in the lowland and lower montane forests of New Guinea (175–1,900 m). Of all the Bulbophyllum sections, the flowers of Codonosiphon species may just be the most elegant — and they are some of my favourites. Multiple inflorescences, each bearing a single flower that lasts 6–7 days, are produced over the course of 6–8 weeks once a year. I did have one year where they bloomed on and off for about 5 months, however. ° ° #nature is my #garden with all the #amazing #tropical #orchids, #plants and #flowers of Papua New Guinea! 🌺🌿🇵🇬

@davepl1968 @Ubiquiti 👌

If you're not using @Ubiquiti gear, you're missing out on this kind of nerdfest. So many charts and graphs! I'm downloading Deepseek 70B over 5Gb fiber and it ranges from 1.5Gb/sec to 4.5GB/sec, which speaks pretty well to HuggingFace's connectivity! There's a UDMPro Max, 14 switches, 10 access points. Looks like 17 non-Unifi devices as well. My devices range from 25Gb fiber to 10MB PDP-11s, and they all happily communicate! There are currently 107 network clients on the local LAN... 33 hardwired (25Gb, 10Gb, 1Gb) and 74 wifi clients. I have most of my central APs upgraded to 10Gb connections and WiFI 7, so I've seen some crazy speeds in bench tests (2Gb/sec+). 90% of this is out-of-pocket and not sponsored; I just like the gear. And it's made in America!

2/ Bulbophyllum nitidum Schltr. ° ° #nature is my #garden with all the #amazing #tropical #orchids, #plants and #flowers of Papua New Guinea! 🌺🌿🇵🇬

@worchids_annex 💪

C. schillleriana 'Victoria' ブラジルのセレクト品で有名個体Guarapariの子供 1ステム7輪開花！ 今までの国内のシレリアナとは1線を画す凄まじい一株です!

@aaorange Still nice!

今回はあまり花が多くないです