Copper Ladies Tresses Profile Up on the Website

I covered Copper Ladies' Tresses (Mesadenus lucayanus) in a previous post.  As is often the case, I use this blog as a way to get some information and photographs out prior to setting up a formal profile on the Florida Native Orchids website.  In this case, quite a bit of time has elapsed between the initial blog entry and the plant profile, as I put my focus on setting up other profiles and generally updating the website to fully utilize MySQL and PHP for the orchid gallery.

So, after a very long delay, here finally is the profile for Copper Ladies Tresses on the Florida Native Orchids site (click the thumbnail below to visit the profile):

Happy Everglades Day!

On March 7, 2012, the Florida Legislature voted to designate April 7, the birthday of Everglades activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas as Everglades Day. Today is the first official Everglades Day.  Being the home to the largest collection of orchid species in the United States, the Everglades is a unique environment deserving protection.

By the way, the pictured flower is Vanilla phaeantha, an orchid that grows in the Big Cypress portion of the Everglades. Here is a link that describes this orchid more:

http://www.flnativeorchids.com/natives_gallery/vanilla_phaeantha.htm