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Bummer.
Drat.

Sorry it didn't help. I know! I need a Pleuro so that I can get the pictures. :D Heh. Maybe later. I know a place that might have some.
 
A while back, several TF members encouraged me to add some orchids to my highland house (thanks for the suggestion!), and so I did: a few species of Dracula! Here is the first flower on my Dracula chimaera:
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Flash turned off = better depiction of the red hues in the bloom:
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Wow! Draculas are not fun to grow if you don't have excellent conditions for them. You've obviously got some skill. If you can find Drac. chestertonii or sodoroi, I'd highly recommend them. Those are two of my favorite in the genus.
 
Wow, that is beautiful! Didn't even realize Drags (edit: Dracs. Not a "Freudian slip", Paul, I promise) were so large (I suppose I am quite ignorant in regards to Orchidaceae). I also thought you had your finger poking through the flower in the first picture.. that would have been a bit bizarre.
 
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Very nice Paul! I grow a few Dracula, this one included, and find them very rewarding and prolific in producing flowers if you can provide cool temperatures.
 
I have a real oddball here...I'm not even sure what it is, all I know is that it is a Bulbophyllum, it's a miniature, it was origionally collected from the wild somewhere in Indonesia, and that it appears to enjoy very cool temps. This is my first set of blooms on it, they are tiny and odorless.

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very nice paul! and judging by your hand for scale, this must be a huge flower indeed! i hope you get your hands on a vampira.

Thank you sir. The bloom is, as I understand it, modest in size, at about 9" tip-to-tail. I've read that blooms can approach twice that size when well grown. Still, it is a larger flower than I expected for its first, and I am completely impressed by it. Its a crazy flower! And yes, I am on a "waiting list" for a plant of D. vampira!
 
I have a real oddball here...I'm not even sure what it is, all I know is that it is a Bulbophyllum, it's a miniature, it was origionally collected from the wild somewhere in Indonesia, and that it appears to enjoy very cool temps. This is my first set of blooms on it, they are tiny and odorless.

Curious, colorful little fellow! How tiny is "tiny"?
 
An new addition. Can't take much credit for the flowers ... it was in bud when I got it. Entire plant is about 2 inches tall; flowers are lightly, sweetly fragrant.

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Here are a few of mine:
Epidendrum porpax
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Madevallia triangularis
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Bulbophyllum lasiochilum that I remounted right after this photo
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Specklinia grobyi
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Restrepia brachypus (not in bloom)
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Dryadella zebrina about to open flowers
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Masdevallea "monarch"
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Bulbophyllum fascinator (coolest orchid ever when blooming)
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Dracula (just lost the tag I'll update when I find it)
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In spike!
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Bulbophyllum "elezibeth ann buckleberry"
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Dendrobium kingianum
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And I also forgot the name of the tall one but its an african orchid and the other in the basket is oncidium varigaetum
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And I got a few more dracs/masdies and others but am too lazy to go take photos.
Lookit these roots!! (not mine)
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