What do you think? Opinions, please! (1 Viewer)

[Peter-PP]

I need your opinion, what do you think of the plant in the picture?

a. Beautiful
b. Ugly
c. Creepy
d. Alien looking
or ------?

 

[JasenP]

Odd.

They remind me of ballet slippers.

 

[Jeff Ulmer]

a. That is a very interesting plant, and it does remind me of ballet slippers. What is it?

 

[BrettB]

Those things look exactly like little ballet slippers. Is this a real plant?

If I had to pick one word...interesting.

 

[Richard Travale]

I'm voting for creepy. They look like little freaky dudes that are going to eat my face while I sleep

 

[Karl_Luph]

They remind me of similar plants that grow in the wetlands down here. Kinda exotic looking though. These down here don't have alot of fragrance to them either.

 

[Ricardo C]

Creepy.

 

[NickSo]

Highly Erotic.. i mean... odd...

 

[Blaine Skerry]

They look like "lady slippers", which are the floral emblem of my home province.

http://www.gov.pe.ca/infopei/onelist...p3?number=1523

 

[BrianW]

I once roomed with someone who grew orchids, and his were even stranger than these. They're fascinating plants.

 

[Bruce Hedtke]

E. Spectacular. Nature is the most creative force in existance.

Bruce

 

[Peter-PP]

Thank you all for the replies!

It is a rare and exotic ladyslipper orchid native to the jungles of South America. Yes, they do look exactly like little ballerina slippers with very long, long dangling shoe laces.

I collect rare orchids and this plant finally bloomed for me for the first time since I bought it over two years ago. The slipper blooms with the long petals (21-28 inches) have certainly attracted a lot of attention in my house and from many visitors who just came to see the blooms. Most find them very interesting and unique, a few thought they looked like bugs, aliens and one guy thought they reminded him of sex organs (I don't see the similarities). So, that was why I was curious to know what others thought of the plant/blooms.

The next picture was taken from a different angle and the lighting was not as good as in the first picture.

 

[RonR]

Could use some Viagra I say

 

[Daren Welsh]

Is that plant healthy? It looks like the blossoms are wilting.

 

[Bill_D]

definitely alien looking

 

[Peter-PP]

Tony and Daren:

That is how nature has intended them to look and they stay like that for many months and then promptly drop without wilting. Today, a woman said they were very interesting and sinister looking as well.

 

[Jeffrey Noel]

I think they look sad. :frowning:

 

[brentl]

b. Ugly

 

[StephenA]

They remind me of those types of carnivorous plants that have a little "pitcher" filled with digestive fluids to eat insects and whatever other small things fall in it.

 

[Francois Caron]

Stephen, that's the first thing that popped into my nind when I saw them. I thought they were pitcher plants, a passively carnivorous plant. The orchids appear to be a spinoff of the same plant. All of them have the clearly defined pocket, and a single leaf protects the opening from rain.

Peter, can you tell if the plants have liquid inside them?