However, there were only a group of five tiny flowers there.

We found a very big Epidendrum sp. on the slope to the valley as well.  It was as tall as Saul.  

Also there were some pink-flowered Epidendrum funkii there.  This species were growing like roadside pavement.  If it was the peak of the flowering season, it would be marvellous like a very nice pink carpet.  This time we only saw several flowers. 

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There were various different orchids on a big rock there.  They were some orange-flowered Epidendrum secundum.  You can see orange-florwered and pink-flowered Epidendrum secundum everywhere but the white-flowered one is quite rare.  Luckily we saw the one two days later.

I continued to draw the orchids in the morning.  After lunch, I went to Huasahuasi again with Saul.

First of all, we found a big plant of Oncidium aureum which I drew the previous day. 

Oncidium bicolor used to be called cacca-cacca in Quechua, the official language of Inca, however, nowadays this Oncidium aureum is called cacca-cacca.   The travellers would chew these bulbs for easing their thirst instead of descending to the bottome of the valley for water. 

I wanted to go to mountains to see more orchids there, but I thought I should draw orchids and should get more information so that I would be able to paint them back in England. I asked Saul to bring some orchids from the nursery in Palca and spent whole day in a hotel room to draw them.

This is one of them, Oncidium aureum.  (Cyrtochilum aureum (Lindl.) Senghas 1997)

I assume that this is a shrub of Solanum sp. 

As you know, potatoes originally come from high Andes, South America.  We were told that Huasahuasi, located in the Andes Highland had a proud crop yields of potatoes and not only supply to whole country but also export to the world, though I haven’t proved it.     

A gigantic Epidendrum sp.

Oncidium bicolor grows like this.  

This time, we visited two different places in Huasahuasi.  One of them was a mountain path where Spanish botanists, Ruiz and Pavón walked 200 years ago.  There were various orchids in flower there. 

First of all, this is an Oncidium bicolor.