Saturday, February 5, 2011
January Season
It's January again. For days and days now the sky is has been flushed with deep blue and more often than usual the presence of moderate breeze to bring dryness in this northern part of Malaysia. Light downpour occasionally sweep by in the night and whenever it pours down, the mean temperature of the night's steaming hot atmosphere will drop rapidly triggering to flower the less appreciated but abundant dendrobium species here- Dendrobium crumenatum.
A typical day would start around 0730 and it will be all bright with sunny sky until sundown. All the stark heat, a clear bright sky, the dry blowing wind sets such a dramatic theater for many events of the folks here in the north and it all lay wonderfully in contrast with the red, yellow and greenish backdrop scenery this season bring. Along the highway, you can see the vastness of paddy crop being harvested and the funnel of smokes when they burned the remnant that seemingly a picturesque of a masterful art portrait.
Ah yes, the dry season has came here again to celebrate flowering of many of dry loving species. Some species of dendrobium already started to shed their leaves earlier and very soon their cane like stem will be covered with many small little buds along the nods. Bulbophyllum dentiferum sub. pink also will set to flower in this season. It is so far only restricted to Thai/ Perlis limestone area and had been well adapted to the intense heat to mark its flowering cycle. Ascocentrum miniatum in particular will be the showiest of them all when all of its brightly yellow flowers covering its plant clump.
Labels: Orchids, orkid,
Ascocentrum miniatum,
Bulbophyllum dentiferum,
dry season
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