Side view.

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Dracula woolwardii 'Juan'. Large, nicely shaped.

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Another view.

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Dracula carcinopsis hard to find, had to order it dirctly from Columbia and wait 6 month to get it. Finally bloomed, small with the flowers not fully open.

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Dracula gorgona 'Stoney Point'. A red version of gorgona. The regular gorgona is posted earlier, no comparison, the red jumps in your face on this one.

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I like the red one!
Maybe start a new thread.
Dracula II or Son of Dracula
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Dracuvallia Blue Boy is a hybrid between Masdevallia uniflora x Dracula chimaera. There are several clones, Dracuvallia Blue Boy 'Cow Hollow' AM/AOS being one of them. The ones I have seen look similar.

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Side view.

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Dracula belleropheron, medium sized hairy.

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Side view.

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Dracula orientalis, dark, medium sized, does not open fully, legs crossed, must be shy.

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And last but not leasdt, Dracula vampira 'Walter', the king or queen (can you be both?) of the Dracula. Hawk Hills has at least 25 different clones of this species. Some sell for $500, this one is a $70 item.

Well we reached 100, more Dracula are coming but we'll save them for next year.

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Yikes, at the price. I love the purple colour. The face makes me think of a horse.

It's actually black but the camera simply does not want to take a picture of a black flower. I have no idea what the reason is as there is no hesitation to show a black pot or some other black object. A black flower will come out either brownish or purplish but very seldom the true color of the flower.

Since I'm not a photographer but just a carbon based life form that clicks the 'shoot' button of the camera, I'm helpless to correct this inaccuracy. I belong to a species club where the 1st VP is an experienced photographer and she relates that she has the same problem. She knows how to photo-shop or otherwise tweak the end product, that way she overcomes this problem. I don't know how to do that so you get what the camera sees. A black pot remains black but a black flower takes on a different hue.

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I thought you could not post part 100. Oh well!

Here is a side view. Again, the camera recognized the black background but not the plant's black lines which are just as dark.

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Interesting, well we will pretend that purple or brown is black.
Thanks for correcting me. I'm a point and click photographer, my cameras problem are red flowers in the sunlight.

Right, they turn yellow unless you shield them from the sunlight.

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Dracula pusila, not exactly a corsage type. Small and insignificant but it's a Dracula and deserved a place at the table.

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Dracula schudellii.

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Close up.

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Dracula chiroptera 'Grendal'.a large stately flower.15" tip to tip.

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Side view.

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WOW! A lovely giant.

Dracuvallia Qualaquixa, don't know the parentage, a Dracula and a Masdevallia. Very different looking withe ridges of the flower.

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Has long tails and unlike many of them stands up on it's own, I'm not holding it.

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Side view, I like this one, it is different.

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I like this one too. It's waxy looking, not hairy.

Dracula soderoi 'Firecracker' is different from the Drac soderoi subspecies erythrocodon which was posted earlier. Ist bloom this year, very late.

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This flower is fully open, you can see the little slits which are big enough for the pollinator to get in. Whoever that might be.

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Certainly very different. Hard to believe that this is an open bloom.

Dracula gorgona 'Stoney point' has been working 7 spikes. it's a sequential bloomer and looses flowers as it makes new onew. today there were 4 open at the same time, a first. I attempted top photograph them without breaking them off.

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Left to their own devices, they are all over the place.

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Wow ! I never see this type of flowers. Excellent flowers. Different from other flowers. Bravo !

Lovely photo. Looks spindly, glad you didn't break anything.

Had this guy for 2 years and finally gave me the first bloom. I like it! It's a Dracula terborchii by the way.

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Another view of terborchii, this one a little more focused.

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Dracula ripleyana, another small cutie.

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Small body, long Schwanz.

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FINALLY!!! Dracula gorgona xanthia 'Clombo' FCC/AOS. I have been lusting after that one for years. Could not afford it as it was $850 at Hawk Hills and people were paying that for it. Finally after grovelling, pleading and begging I get a deal I could live with and now it's in bloom.

Originally it was a one plant mutation owned by the owner of the Colombia nursery. She gave a division to a friend who subsequently got the FCC. Her plant died and all the ones in cultivation today are division of the FCC. It has never been cloned which may not be possible.

It is the center piece of my greenhouse.

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Another view.

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Side view. Notice how flat it is.

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The plant. It has 3 spikes.

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Dracula diana, small but very strong colors.

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Another view.

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Dracula severa, medium sized, nice shape.

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Another view.

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OMG, thanks for posting this collection. I've seen a few pics from time to time, but these are truly amazing!

Dracula mopsus, now there's a face that only a mother could love!

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Side view, it has quite a few in a ring around the plant.

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All the same, it's cute.