2014-7 Jay Pfahl, Noted Orchidologist from Key West, Florida, Finds Wild Orchids on Tierra Negra.
In July of 2014, Fundación Escuela Sintana y Tierra Negra hosted Jay Pfahl of Key West, Florida as he surveyed the wild orchids growing in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, led by local guide, Itamar Vargas. Jay has compiled an astonishing 24,552 species of orchids in his Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia http://www.orchidspecies.com and is well known in the world of orchid lovers. In spite of the alarming drought in the region, on the Foundation’s land, Tierra Negra, he located Oncidium carthegenese, Campylocentrum micranthum, and two or three different Epidendrum that were not in flower at the time, making them impossible to affirmatively identify.
In July of 2014, Fundación Escuela Sintana y Tierra Negra hosted Jay Pfahl of Key West, Florida as he surveyed the wild orchids growing in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, led by local guide, Itamar Vargas. Jay has compiled an astonishing 24,552 species of orchids in his Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia http://www.orchidspecies.com and is well known in the world of orchid lovers. In spite of the alarming drought in the region, on the Foundation’s land, Tierra Negra, he located Oncidium carthegenese, Campylocentrum micranthum, and two or three different Epidendrum that were not in flower at the time, making them impossible to affirmatively identify.