Lecture by Dr Nicholas Hellmuth, Friday, November 30, 2018; Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, as part of the I CONGRESO ECOLÓGICO DE ALTA VERAPAZ (in honor of Parque Nacional Laguna Lachua).
This lecture will show high-resolution photographs of giant birds in flight (at Parque Nacional Yaxha Nakum Naranjo). Will show awesome beautiful bright colored flowers of parasitic plants and remarkable pineapple-related bromeliads (terrestrial).
The final slide will be an aquatic orchid in full bloom: literally, an orchid about 2 meters from the shores of Lake Yaxha.
This orchid is NOT fallen from a tree; this is a kind of “bog orchid” or “swamp orchid” associated with the tall grass-like vegetation along the shores of many lakes. This orchid, to our knowledge, is not in any botanical book of orchids of Guatemala. It is not, we repeat, it is not an orchid fallen from a tree: it literally grows up from the roots of water plants. We found it in more than six different locations.
If you return to this web site in about 2 days we will have a preview that you can download (sample slides from the Powerpoint presentation). We hope to see you in Coban, Alta Verapaz on November 30th.
If you are interested in jaguars of Central America, on the home page of www.maya-archaeology.org you can download a sample of the lecture by Hellmuth at a jaguar conference last week.
If you can’t get to Coban, Dr Hellmuth can present either or both these lectures in your city anywhere in the world.
In case you are attending the expo, here is a map with the location of the event and the Hotel Monja Blanca where Dr Hellmuth is staying.
Posted Nov. 12, 2018
