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 […]

Bigugu isn’t just good for orchids the varied habitats also support some other remarkable plants including this stunning red Impatiens (Busy Lizzie family) that is only found in forest near the summit of this one mountain – wow!

What a find. This orchid is one of Rwanda’s 61 endemic species (not found in any other country) and it is restricted to montane forest and ericaceous scrub high on Rwanda’s mountains. We found it flowering 200m below the summit of Bigugu on the side of a tree trunk. Polystachyas deserve to be more widely […]