Discover Top Posts Tagged with #aerides

Orchid: Aerides maculosa

#Aerides maculosa #aerides #orchid #orchids #flora #plants #epiphytes #botany #wildflowers #orchids of india #orchids of maharashtra #orchids of western ghats #flowers of india #flowers of western ghats #flowers of maharashtra #kelavali #kelawli #sahyadri #flower photography #photography #nature

Oh my God, someone tell Aerides he can't just give this wyrm every single snack he demands, Sudo's gonna get (as the fellow youth say) heckin' chonk!

#artisticgiantlime #tmnt #rottmnt #aerides #tamale4prez #wyrm #sudo #STOP FEEDING HIM CHIPS #HE'S GOING TO BECOME ROTUND #PLEASE #HAVE MERCY ON HIS LITTLE STICK LEGS

The Tower of the Winds (alternatively, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes) is located in the Roman Agora of Athens, between the areas of Plaka and Monastiraki, and it is considered the first meteorological station in the world. It is an octagonal structure made of Pentelic marble that used to function as a Horologium or "timepiece".

Unofficially, the monument is also called Aerides, a Greek word for "winds", and the neighbourhood immediately surrounding it is also known by the same name. It is believed to have been erected in 100–50 BC by Andronicus of Cyrrhus (also referred to as Andronicus Cyrrhestes, Greek: Andronikos Kyrrhestes), a Greek astronomer from the ancient town of Cyrrhus in Macedonia, who had already constructed a multifaced sundial in the sanctuary of Poseidon on the Greek island of Tinos.

The tower is about 12 metres tall and eight metres wide, and contains eight planar sundials facing various cardinal points of the compass: each of the building’s eight sides faces a point of the compass and is decorated with a frieze of figures in relief representing the winds that blow from that direction, while below the frieze, on each side facing the sun, are the lines of a sundial. The eight wind deities (Anemoi) represented are Boreas (N), Kaikias (NE), Apeliotes (E), Eurus (SE), Notus (S), Lips (SW), Zephyrus (W), and Skiron (NW).

#Greece #Athens #Horologion #Tower of the Winds #Aerides

A few of the orchids in our home vivarium (clockwise from upper left): Aerides (ex. Vanda) flabellata, Specklinia (ex. Pleurothallis) grobyi, Angraecum erectum, and Maxillaria uncata. None in bloom, but all apparently doing fine. Two more orchids, Dendrobium smilliae and Epidendrum porpax, are not in view here. The tank is also home to a Correlophus ciliatus, and at least one, possibly two Scaphiophryne marmorata. . . . . . #orchid #orchidsofinstagram #orchidsofig #orchids #Maxillaria #Maxillariauncata #Pleurothallis #Pleurothallisgrobyi #Specklinia #Speckliniagrobyi #Vanda #Aerides #Vandaflabellata #Aeridesflabellata #vivarium #terrarium #greenery #miniforest (at Munich, Germany)