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| Original Paintings |
| Patricia Laspino |
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| Angel Wings |
| Original Oil on Panel, 24" x 20" |
| Angel Wings is framed and floated on a dimensional oil painting on panel executed by the artist. |
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American Orchid Society - Director of Education Note:
The inspiration for this work is another masterpiece of the hybridizer’s art. Two closely related but geographically widely
separated genera have been brought together to achieve a depth of color and balance of symmetry pleasing to the eye.
Sharing a common genus ancestor, Brassia, with the subject of Fascination, the depth of color has been introduced by
taking advantage of the ability of a species long known as Odontoglossum bictoniense to darken the colors inherited from
the other parent. Found in southern Mexico southward to Panama epiphytically in scrub cloud forest and the pine-oak-
Liquidambar forests that cover extensive areas of the region. This forest occurs in a karstic area with moist microhabitats in
sinkholes and dolines, forming a complex mosaic with the mountain rain forest. These pine-oak-Liquidambar forests are
rich in epiphytes and the tree branches are often covered in tank Bromeliads and orchids. Now known as Rhynchostele
bictoniensis, this delightful cool-growing species has a long and checkered history with regard to its name but molecular
genetic analysis places it rather far removed to Odontoglossum.
The inspiration for this work is another masterpiece of the hybridizer’s art. Two closely related but geographically widely
separated genera have been brought together to achieve a depth of color and balance of symmetry pleasing to the eye.
Sharing a common genus ancestor, Brassia, with the subject of Fascination, the depth of color has been introduced by
taking advantage of the ability of a species long known as Odontoglossum bictoniense to darken the colors inherited from
the other parent. Found in southern Mexico southward to Panama epiphytically in scrub cloud forest and the pine-oak-
Liquidambar forests that cover extensive areas of the region. This forest occurs in a karstic area with moist microhabitats in
sinkholes and dolines, forming a complex mosaic with the mountain rain forest. These pine-oak-Liquidambar forests are
rich in epiphytes and the tree branches are often covered in tank Bromeliads and orchids. Now known as Rhynchostele
bictoniensis, this delightful cool-growing species has a long and checkered history with regard to its name but molecular
genetic analysis places it rather far removed to Odontoglossum.