Sunday, November 11, 2007
Lincoln Park Conservatory
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The Lincoln Park Conservatory ... has 4 greenhouses ... The Show House, The Orchid House, The Palm House and the Fern House ... In this Blog these are images from the the "Orchid House" ... Photographs from other green houses are posted in my other blog ... "Urbs in Horto".
Talking about the Orchid House, apart from orchids, it has an excellent collection of bromelaids and tropical flowers ... In Bromelaids, I've seen ... Billbergia, Matchstick Plant, Purple Quill, Portea, Guzmania, Dancing Bulb, Vase Plant ... Some other tropical plants like ... Nepenthis Pitcher Plant, Coreopegia Sandersonii, Trumpet flowers, Bull Horn's Acacia, Ant Nest Plant, and also Pickly Pear Cactus, Mistletoe Cactus ...
This Blog also has photos of orchids taken at other places like the "Tropical Greenhouse" at Chicago Botanic Garden ... and many shots from "Illinois Orchid Society's Show and Sale", at Chicago Botanic Graden ...
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