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about orchids. iIf you're new to the channel this is April--hola-- and I'm Wayne. Today we have Selvyn
again with us he's our tour guide all through Guatemala we call him
the professor--almost--no he's the professor he knows everything about Guatemala. We also
have Eric with us; he's a local guide here at Orquigonia. We do a video every Thursday
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in all Guatemala they have 1,500 legal orchidee pieces and here in Coban is
over a hundred different species in this Orquigonia place they have over
600 different orchid spieces normally the orchidees they are special because they get
one flower for one short season sometimes the one flower is for few hours couple hours
like this yeah they have more long life because you can see flowers about six
or eight weeks yeah another orchids is more short life [...] orchidee and they call Bamboo but it's
no bamboo you can see it's bamboo for like to cane yes yeah like to cane style but they have
beautiful purple and pink flowers some of orchidees we can't touch because it's oily yes
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the name is Lilia Lilia like a lilac almost almost yes helecho is the name of the this plant this
one yes this one the the leaves yeah when this is a tiny plant we export to United States for
for ornamentals decoration but in the middle when this is growing the new leaves is like to Monkey
tail yes yeah and in common name yeah whole monkey tail yeah it's it's all regular name yes because
it's helecho is the name of this plant but now is almost three almost palm tree but is normally is
ornamental plants this one is giant normally it's tiny in anthurium we have a two colors yellow one
and red one he said they have different species from the same time okay these are from dark area
or shade areas okay and here you can see each one plant is a different orchid one here you
can recognize for example because it's a bulb one bulb is representing one years of her life
okay yeah and here you can count many bulbos this one has this will be almost old so each one
of those represents a year exactly exactly but this one knows parasite plants yeah the normally
that's plants they are eating about to the air about to be rain but they are using only the
trunk to live but they are not absorbing minerals nothing from the tree no they are using only light
to base and here you can see the roots on tree because the parasite plant for example is this
plant because this plant the root is hung in the tree but they are eating from the tree yes yeah
for that we--love hate relationship--exactly but for that yeah we call this one parasite
oh in common name we call Matapalo Palo is is a common naming Guatemala from One Tree
this case this one is killer tree this area is a rainforest this is the national bird habitat and
he says it's possible in here we can see one family of Quetzal is a Trogon the Trogon bird
is green one we saw in the car when you asking me is a short tail we have a red chest in here and the
green color in the majority feathers is almost big it's almost this size but the quetzal they
have 60 or 50 centimeters long of tail it's in the rainforest of Guatemala right yes we are we are in
the real rainforest in Guatemala Coban we call Coban Altaverapaz the altitude in this area
is almost 18 meters high yeah because and here the Topography is up and down but then here we
are only one is steep area oh this one is a is a bromeliad this is another epiphyte plants yeah
it's similar to orchidee but it's not orchid remember when we went talking about the bromelieas
and we can eat a bromelia pineapple is a bromelia we can we can eat do you wanna take pictures Wayne we gotta get a picture by the Bug
oh in Spanish we call cucarachita bugs is beetle yeah yes in Spanish
it's escarabajo beetle in Spanish is escarabajo we also say it is escarabajo with cucaracha
you can spend the night in the Orchid Farm sleep in the Volkswagen Bug for
150 quetzales per night for two people so it's 10 bucks per person per night
to stay in the Bug oh it'd be fun you hear all the animals too all night right no no
no no only only the dog from neighbor I heard the cow
it's another pink monja-oh that's pretty-Castilly Superba is the name
helechos plant like this in Guatemala we have over 20 different helechos species
[......] for this helechos they have many roots many local people they cut the letters only for roots and they are using for Animals decoration
or like to places for hold some ornamental plants there have sense because now it's private because it's protecting that the helechos
because in many local people they cut them only for taking yeah they take the roots but now it's prohibited to sell to cut or to kill one helecho
so that was that plant it was just carved out like that exactly and it took over with--or the moss uh mostly moss because this one keeps the humidity yeah or the water for
that when you put one plant there ornamental plant there yeah it's living it's life yeah
they keep it--they keep the life right right so it's actually not good not good yeah exactly okay
it's the same one oh yeah the one helecho they can grow up almost 15 meters long
like this one yeah you can see how big it is is there a better time of year to see more flowers {...}
okay he said no have any specific season for see flower because the orchidee sometimes they have
long life sometimes they have a short life yeah for that they don't have one specific season to
see many of them it's all this vegetation just natural it's natural it's just natural they're
not really growing flowers out in that area no protecting in and they saved the orchids they put
like this they put in safe the same tree yeah in some trees yeah because they have different type
but on here they can have control to cleaning to this parasites for example yeah it's easy
for them when it's too tall is when it is more all the orchids yeah in this case it's the same
local habitat yeah for the rainforest for that they feeling home yeah this one is helping for habitats
wet humid the 70 percent of the orchids is living on trees the 10 percent is living
on ground and the another 15 percent is living on stones or rocks or rocky areas epidendrum veroscriptum
yes there you can see another tiny one
he said is 70 percent of the Guatemalan orchidees is tiny like this oh really look how tiny that
is really tiny okay fritillaros immerso because coming through the leaves look yeah like that okay
is the name of this Orchid everything's like a science because you know it's in Latin it's in
Latin in Latin yeah because from there is coming all names this is a mushroom it's a poisonous
mushroom but this one they have the pollen inside and these are making a lot pollinization when
you put you can see the little dust coming up oh you can see that yeah yeah yeah you can see you
can see little powder out there oh yeah yeah yeah yeah look it it's pieces of the powder is pollen
and they're starting share the pollinization around on the ground and after there they grow up a lot one
they help each other yes this one is like my name [.......] is the name
uh oh rain is coming it started raining on us in the rainforest what a shock
hola que tal how are you guys doing hola Chelsea hola so you guys must be getting ready to head
to Coban a lot of people don't visit this part of Guatemala I'm really excited you're gonna have
the opportunity and it also helps to break up the long drive that you have when you're
day in Coban you're going to get to enjoy the town of Coban try lots of different
local traditional dishes how to eat around town sounds very interesting we can't wait
so I'm excited for you guys to try different food there and you're staying at a cool place
called Finca Chijul which is awesome it's kind of like on a private Nature Reserve you're going to have
a little bit of time in this in the town of Coban and then also some time in nature and
it's a great place to kind of rejuvenate and rest up muy bien enjoy Coban and I'll talk to you guys soon Muchas gracias see you Ciao!
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