Expo Orquideas, Museo Franz Mayer, Cd. de México

EXPO ORQUIDEAS 2014,
Museo Franz Mayer
Calle Hidalgo 45, Centro Histórico, Ciudad de México
Octubre 16 a 19

 

Ya es tradicional la exposición anual de Orquídeas en el Museo Franz Mayer organizada por la AMO. El lugar, un bello edificio del S XVI que luce todavía mejor con las hermosas flores en exposición y también venta directa de los productores.   En esta ocasión, la expo fue dedicada a la vainilla, la cual es una orquídea.

 

Extracto de vainilla de Papantla

Metro:     Hidalgo y Bellas Artes
Estacionamiento:  en el museo

Trichocentrum cebolleta

EXPO ORQUIDEAS 2011,
Franz Mayer Museaum
Mexico City, Mexico.

Franz Mayer Museum, a beautiful building from XVIII century is having the anual orchids expo from the Mexican Orchids Association (Asociación Mexicana de Orquideología AMO).

FM museum is located at Mexico City downtown and access is equivalent to 4 USD, museums in Mexico are really cheap compared to other Countries in the world, consider 2 USD per hour for parking lot fee and all you can spend in Plants as you will want to buy everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and remember, buying orchids and enjoying taking care of them is less expensive than paying for the shrink!!

Enjoy this beautiful building where you can find a mix of antique smell, people interested in orchids, the sound of birds and the smell of flowers.

Orchids expo is in the patio's 1st floor and orchids sales are at 2nd. floor. Find a mix of laelias, catleyas, epidendrums, trichocentrums, paphillodiums, dendrobiums phalaenopsis, maxillarias, vainilla,  and more.

Paphiopedillum

Take a walk, then sit a the patio cafeteria for a cup of coffee, and keep walking!!  Although small, you will always find new things...

just to give you a taste, take a look to the beauty flowers I enjoyed!!

 

Franz Mayer Museum Library which has 800 versions of "Don Quijote de la Mancha"

Laelia, notice white version
is very rare to find this days!

 

I went shopping, but instead of shoes, I got orchids!!!



Trichocentrum cebolleta

 I think it is a Trichocentrum cebolleta although I am still in doubt so still checking books and orchids pictures to confirm.  Pot was completely full so I decided to repot immediatly dividing the Plant in two.  Both plants are still crowd enough to look beautiful.  It has pseudobulbs so easy to divide. They are now in my living room while they look like this, then I will place them outdoors.

I bought it at Xochimilco, south of Mexico City.

Dendrobium



This is a dendrobium, I got it at Rio Verde Orquidiarium located at Temascaltepec, Mexico.  This is a high humidity area in the middle of the mountains where orquids grow naturally.  This nursery is focused on growing mexican species although dendrobiums are not as far as I know.



I also got a paphiopedillum,  it has a bottom, I am waiting anxiously to see it open and see the flower!  I will get the picture for sure as soon as it shows up!.

Mitoniopsis



Meet my new mitoniopsis, it looks like a tulip and only when you see it in detail you will see it is an orchid, this one is purple, picture does not show the beauty of it.

The last but not least see below an oncidium ornithorrhincum, beautifull flowers, with no more than 2 cm diameter, I am noticing that oncidiums have small flowers but not sure yet if I can say all oncidiums have this characteristic yet, still more to investigate about them.

Oncidium ornithorrhyncum

noid

 



NOID

NOID

I still have few old NOIDS to find out what are they, can you recognize any of the following ones to help this beginner????