Today’s orchid is another of the magnificent terrestrial species from Kamiranzovu swamp. Satyrium crassicaule is an easy one for the Rwandan school children to identify because of the double spur (like devils horns) characteristic of Satyrium species. This is a really robust species that is just coming into flower now with flower spikes that can […]

Sometimes our tropical trips bring us into contact with some really rare plants and Begonia pulcherrima is one of those. Like Impatiens nyungwensis (see July 19th) this begonia is endemic to Nyungwe forest. It is only found in restricted areas in the west of the reserve including the swamp forest around Kamiranzovu where we found […]

Today’s workshops cover a wide rage of orchid science. Orchid anatomy with Geogia, Maisha and Tom includes learning about orchid flowers and designing your own orchid species Orchid Laboratory is a workshop run by Zoe and Heather where every Byimana pupil will sow orchid seed using aseptic methods. Orchid ecology is a workshop run by […]

Orchid of the day is little Cynorkis anacamptoides which we found on Friday in Kamiranzovu. It is worth of orchid of the day as the seed we collected was the first Nyungwe seed to be sown in the Kitabi lab during the workshop sessions. The momentous moment is captured below.

Today we are running three workshops on orchids, propagation and conservation with Kitabi students. Zoe and Heather are training students to sow orchid seed in-vitro. Tom, Jacob and Amy are running a session on orchid life cycle, ecology and conservation. Maisha, Georgia, Ike and Devin are delivering a session on the parts of an orchid […]