At the end of the orchid and pitcher plant tour I co-led in April 2016, we visited a very nice orchid botanical garden, the Tenom Orchid Centre in Sabah, before we would spend a day to unwind near the coast. It was the opportunity for me to enjoy a spectacular and pecualiar garden entirely dedicated to the genus Vanda and other orchids from the Vandeae tribe.
The site is a spectacular field dotted with poles on which the vandas are grown as epiphytes. I was completely blown away by the beauty of the plants and by the way they were grown: the sun was absolutely blazing and it was extremely hot on that day. It was a thing of wonder to witness such delicate plants coping seemingly effortlessly with the sun fire.
There was no tag as far as I could see and I bet most of the plants below are of (man-made) hybrid origin but the botanist in me didn't care on that day. After two weeks of botanizing, I only wanted to enjoy the beauty that this place had to offer whether the wonders there were natural or not. A well needed rest, as a couple of days later, I would embark on my very first ascent of the great but demanding Gunung Tambuyukon, arguably the highlight of my 2016 Borneo trip (soon to be shown here on the blog).
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