Slipper Orchid is showing off its opening routine.

My slipper orchid executing a flower build using techniques perfected over the last sixty million years. Early ancestors appeared during the Palaeocene and genes responsible for this marvel reboot with every successiove generation.

Gently curving in space and time.

Smooth, moist and hairy, to help trap potential pollinators long enough to do their work.

Reproductive Apparatus.

Orchids are strange plants, and this is a weird orchid.

Hairy curves.

Big folded petal.

Unfolding sepal.

Lifting the lid off.

Perfected Design.

Form elegantly following function.

My studio.

Freddy the kitten sneaked in and knocked the whole show over.