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Trick or treat?! If you're visiting the Garden this #HalloweenWeekend we'd love to hear what you think this rare orchid smells like!
#plantcollection #smellyplant #orchid
Hear more about our smelly Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis in this BBC Radio Cambridgeshire audio clip with presenter Thordis as our Glasshouse team explain more about the plant & the reason why the flower petals look like rotting meat ๐ชฐ๐คง.
Or tune into The Great Outdoors Sunday from 10am!
[4/4] This has delicate green-yellow flowers on dangling racemes (flowers arranged along a central stem) which are 50cms long. A real jasmine-scented beauty that will chase away all thoughts of stinking fish! #Orchids #SmellyPlant #LivingCollection #HalfTerm
![[4/4] This has delicate green-yellow flowers on dangling racemes (flowers arranged along a central stem) which are 50cms long. A real jasmine-scented beauty that will chase away all thoughts of stinking fish! #Orchids #SmellyPlant #LivingCollection #HalfTerm](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgElx98XgAAMQF3.jpg "Cam Botanic Garden (@CUBotanicGarden) on Twitter photo 2022-10-27 11:32:22 [4/4] This has delicate green-yellow flowers on dangling racemes (flowers arranged along a central stem) which are 50cms long. A real jasmine-scented beauty that will chase away all thoughts of stinking fish! #Orchids #SmellyPlant #LivingCollection #HalfTerm")
![[3/4] Another flowering epiphytic orchid to visit this week is the magnificent Coelogyne rochussenii. Native in Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra and the Phillippines, you can find it in the east Glasshouse corridor.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgElvoJXgAI1Ngy.jpg "Cam Botanic Garden (@CUBotanicGarden) on Twitter photo 2022-10-27 11:32:21 [3/4] Another flowering epiphytic orchid to visit this week is the magnificent Coelogyne rochussenii. Native in Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra and the Phillippines, you can find it in the east Glasshouse corridor.")
![[2/4] Its flower - which is rare to see in cultivation - is said to look like โmeat with maggots on itโ! To the flies & beetles that pollinate it in the wild, it looks & smells amazing! It comes from Papua New Guinea where it grows on other plants as an epiphyte.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgEl0H0XwAIA4mN.jpg "Cam Botanic Garden (@CUBotanicGarden) on Twitter photo 2022-10-27 11:32:20 [2/4] Its flower - which is rare to see in cultivation - is said to look like โmeat with maggots on itโ! To the flies & beetles that pollinate it in the wild, it looks & smells amazing! It comes from Papua New Guinea where it grows on other plants as an epiphyte.")
We love seeing your autumn & Apple Day images ๐
We're looking forward to your half term and halloween ones next!
Thanks for sharing ๐ท
Roger Horton
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James Gilbert
Sanger's Max Carter-Brown talks to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire about a project to discover the secrets of apple DNA ahead of yesterday's Cam Botanic Garden #AppleDay ๐๐งฌ
Listen here โคต๏ธ
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0โฆ
A regular Garden visitor - who was interested in the squirrels rather than the apples today - captured on camera by A Cambridge Diary
We're looking forward to tonight's taster from Richard Westcott about cider science and apple DNA..
You'll find the Wellcome Sanger Institute
team & @simoncider in our marquee at Apple Day if you'd like to discover more about their project along with other cider and tasty treat stalls ๐