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   This huge "orchid" was growing between limbs of a mango tree here in the Tropics. Is it some kind of wild orchid? (Please rotate pic to see it upright)

    

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   meggie, Apr 8, 2010

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   No, not an orchid.
   It looks like a Billbergia sp. An epiphytic Bromeliad.
   
   http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...b:IE-ContextMenu&rlz=1I7SUNA_en-GB&tbs=isch:1
   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billbergia

    

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   Tanx SS

    

   meggie, Apr 9, 2010

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