The New York Times described the 2016 Orchid Show (Orchidelerium) in an interesting article: ‘Orchidelirium’ Explodes With Color at New York Botanical Garden:

The orchid trail at the New York Botanical Garden burns with color like a slow fuse. Along a greenhouse walkway in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, refitted for “Orchidelirium,” this year’s edition of the annual orchid show, clustered plantings clamor, each more brilliant and extravagantly shaped than its neighbor. Tiny blazing-yellow Colombian buttercup orchids jostle with frilly, purply-red Pacific Sun Spots, which compete with hybrid Phalaenopsis, their petals decorated with pink stripes as fine as a hair.

This tropical tour builds to a whopper of a climax. At the end of the path, rising in majesty, is a mountain of volcanic stone, with a waterfall splashing down its forbidding face. From foot to summit, the mountain is draped with orchids in profusion, like a shower of botanical jewels.

This is the Indiana Jones moment: when the expedition, fighting twisted vines and dense jungle undergrowth, reaches a clearing and beholds the sacred peak whose name local tribes dare not speak aloud, a repository of riches beyond the dreams of avarice.