tags: NYC, Upper East Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
Yellow orchid, Oncidium species.
Photographed on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, NYC.
There are several hundred recognized Oncidium species, but the experts reclassify plants in this group often, so I am not sure which species this is. Additionally, Oncidium species have been freely hybridized in captivity.
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Image: GrrlScientist, 9 May 2009 [larger view].
All this reclassification is done to (a) confuse us and (b) keep systemacists in a job. Luckily they live in a rarified world, so nobody has thought to recruit them to become administrators.