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Toby
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I grow orchids, love RPGs and try to be the best parent possible. he, il, lui, er, él
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#orchids related, but not a flower. A post flower if you will. An orchid seed pod open with seeds visible. Orchid seed is dust like. So if someone is trying to sell you orchid seeds that are visible, it’s a scam.
A cork mount with a green stem and leaves on either side. A brown seed pod with dust like seeds within.
November 15, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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I feel like a flower is needed tonight. #orchids #bloomscrolling
Vanilla planifolia (?)
Blooms only last a day.
A vanilla orchid flower. The shape is starry with pale green sepals and petals. The lip surrounds the column to make a filled yellow tube in the center of the flower. Behind the flower are out of focus leaves and sky.
October 31, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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#orchids
#bloomscrolling

A very small red masdevallia from the greenhouse. Don’t know the species, but a brilliant red.
A red masdevallia flower against a black plastic mesh. The flower is bright red with darker stripes in the throat. The flower looks square, but is actually more upside down heart shaped with long tips at each point of the heart. Hearts have three tips right?
October 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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#bloomscrolling #orchids
I should know what this is because it’s very distinctive. I do know it’s a coelogyne.
A green coelogyne flower with black stripes and details in the column and lip. Behind is a large green leaf and a workbench out of focus.
October 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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#bloomscrolling #orchids
Paph delenatii? Maybe, maybe not. Gorgeous in any case.
A pink paphiopedilum flower with darker veining on the petals and a darker patch with a tinge of yellow in the center. The pouch is white fading to dark pink.
October 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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From the greenhouse some tolumnia flowers. #bloomscrolling #orchids
Several pink orchid flowers against a grey background and some green leaves. A tuft of Spanish moss is visible. The flowers look like a lady in a fancy pink dress with a yellow belt.
September 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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#bloomscrolling #orchids a phalaenopsis flower from the greenhouse. Again, I don’t know the precise cross or species.
A phalaenopsis flower above a gray stone pot with green leaves in the background. The flower is starry, yellow with orange bands the column is white and the lip is orange at the base and fuscia at the tip.
September 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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#bloomscrolling #orchids
An orange Masdevallia from the greenhouse. A lovely jewel among the green.
An orange masdevallia flower against a background of green leaves. The flower is roughly triangle shaped with long points at each vertex. It is orange with bands of deeper red orange going into the center.
September 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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#bloomscrolling #orchids in the greenhouse, a large dracula. Not the best photo because it faces straight down and the light was above/behind it.
A dracula orchid flower, the white roof and the black basket is behind it. The flower is triangular with long wiry tips. The flower is yellow in the middle with black stripes and has black around it.
September 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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#bloomscrolling #orchids from the greenhouse. A bulbophyllum. Lovely.
A spray of 7 flowers shaped like shoes? They are yellow with pink lips and sepals? maybe? Behind them are dark green leaves.
September 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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#bloomscrolling #orchids From the greenhouse. It might be a boella, but I don’t know.
Three orchid flowers with leaves, bench and netting in the background. Yellow with red overlaid flowers.
September 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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#bloomscrolling #orchids
Another one from the greenhouse, a cattleya of some kind. I don’t know what many of these are because most of the plants in the greenhouse don’t have name tags.

But it’s gorgeous.
A red cattleya flower on a green leafy background. The flower has a starry shape with a tubular lip. The sepals and petals are a uniform red orange, the tube is yellow with red, and the lip is bright red.
September 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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#bloomscrolling #orchids
Orchids from the greenhouse. This one looks like an Encyclia cordigera hybrid. The fragrance is almost as good as cordigera.
4 orchid blooms against a green leafy background. The blooms are starry with dark brown petals and sepals and a stripped pink lip.
September 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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At the greenhouse. A Bulbophllum orchid, I don’t know the extract species. No unpleasant scent.
#orchids
A yellow orchid flower with a red lip deep in the flower. Set against blurred foliage. The flower has a triangular top of yellow with red stripes, and the bottom are two long leaf like sepals gently curved out.
August 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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At the greenhouse. So many Dracula flowers! So many. Zoom in to see their tiny faces. #orchids #flowers
Up photo of an orchid in an octagonal black net pot. A ring of long green leaves surrounding scores of small flower. Each flower is a triangle of pale yellow with a red-brown center. Zoom in shows a tiny pair of eyes and a large nose shape in each flower.
August 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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New bloom!! Brasaavola Yalu (nodosa x cucullata). No scent now, maybe tonight. #orchids
A spiky leaved plant with a single, large star shaped flower with thin ivory sepals and petals. And a pointed white lip with a bit of pink deep in the throat.
June 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Tales of the Old West at Crystal Springs Reservoir, less than 1 mile from the last Stagecoach Robbery in San Mateo County in 1905.
TotOW by @effektpodcast.org Dave and Matthew.
A vista over a blue lake, with blue sky and tree covered hills rising from the lake. A book with cowboys on the cover sits on some gravel.
June 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Dendrobium wardianum in bloom in my garden. #orchids
6 dendrobium wardianum flowers with a soft focus tree in the background. The flowers are white with the petals tipped in pale purple, the throat is yellow with two dark red spots deep within.
May 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Went to Gold Country Orchids and Paph Paradise open house on Saturday. Spent way too much money, and took a couple of photos.
A gorgeous cattleya flower. Pale yellow and darker yellow below the column. The greenhouse. A field of clumps of interesting green foliage. The occasional flower. All under a framed opaque greenhouse roof. The greenhouse. A walkway with greenery on both sides. A man farther down the aisle. Some hanging masses of greenery. The occasional pink or purple flower.
May 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Coelogyne Janine Banks blooming today! #orchids
Several pure white orchid flowers with yellow to orange throats. They are arranged on a pendant inflorescence. Behind them is a jumble of leaves, pots and indoor growing space. Kind of a mess, but the flowers are beautiful.
April 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Hey! Plant people of the s SF Bay Area! The Peninsula Orchid Society and the Gold Coast Cymbidium Growers Society have their show and sale this weekend! San Mateo Garden center 9-4 Saturday 10-4 Sunday! #orchids
Ophyrus orchid from the show area. Looks a little like a reddish bee on a starry green flower A Serapsis orchid from the show. Green grasslike leaves with three hooded flowers sticking red tongues out at you. A spray of pink cymbidim flowers.
April 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Drop a ship that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek
Narn G’quan cruiser, a spaceship with black, white, and red stripes.
March 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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If you see this quote post a flower.

Dendrobium victoria-reginae. #orchids
A cluster of purple dendrobium victoria-reginae flowers back lit by the sun against a gray wood fence. The flowers have yellow throats.
February 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Need something nice to share. #orchids Not recent blooms but good ones.
A bright orange Cattleya type orchid bloom, spice Angel maybe? A starry, yellow green Cattleya orchid bloom, with a yellow lip and dark spots down in the throat. Definitely Cattleya luteola. A very dark red/black paphiopedilum slipper orchid bloom with a wide dorsal sepal. Sadly this beauty passed away. Cattleya facelis. Two Cattleya orchid blooms, with green petals and sepals overlaid with dark blotches and a wide tipped, shockingly bright fuchsia lip.
January 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Incredibly close. It’s been heartbreaking to see Bella (the cat) decline as she gets older.

Here’s two pictures of Bella.
A tortoiseshell cat curled up on a bed with sea green sheets and off white pillows. A tortoiseshell cat stretched out on a heating vent. The floor is light wood with a dark wood border, the wall is white.
January 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM