Monkey face orchid

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4395872/.html

 

I've kinda looked at growing these but decided that it's a step too far for my orchid skills!

 

orchids sometime are so strange

flying ducks

 

I have never known orchids in great detail,they are brilliant...quite scary actually do you think they can mimic ??? x

 

Ophrys, a British native orchid, "mimics" bees to aid the pollination.

Here's a photo of a Paphiopedilum flower that I cut in half if you want some detail.................

 

I used to have (cripes, quite a few of my posts sound like this ) quite a substantial Dracula collection. Must have had 30 to 40 plants, as well as a good number of the closely related Masdevallias.
As far as orchids go, they don't handle fluctuations (in temp and humidity) very well. And when I moved house, I lost all of them