Roots

The strange aerial roots of the orchid sitting in our downstairs front room. Where it gets the morning sun and has been in continuous flower for around six months now. I am told it will go through a quiet, flower-free season at some point, but no sign of it doing so any time soon.

Snapped today for its very odd aerial roots, entirely proper for an orchid, but I have still to get used to them, looking to me more like some strange sort of worm than the root of a plant. And close up, the white stuff appearing to be honeycombed, like some sort of living bubble wrap. It would be interesting to see such a root being taken apart by someone who knew what he was doing, but I dare say that would be fatal to the plant.