SHOW US YOUR ORCHIDS/FLOWERS!

[JMN16150]

It just got finished blooming with three seed pod-forming flowers. It has another flower spike that was cut off near the base on the same pseudobulb when I got it, I'm guessing it wont form another one until it grows another mature pseudobulb. I've had 'Sweet Fragrance' before I was here on TF and it had over 50 blooms! My room smelled like chocolatey vanilla for the length of the blooms' lives.

This current one that I have is some other sharry baby cultivar... def. not 'Sweet Fragrance' though.

I never knew peloric phals took the shape of the petals too, well thanks!

 

[Lil Stinkpot]

They smell the strongest at night.

 

[JMN16150]

Thanks lil, I honestly didn't notice that from this one, but I did notice it had different scents during different times. Usually chocolate or vanilla.
Successfully pollinated flowers:




Unpollinated dying blossom:

The plant currently:

 

[amphirion]

my last attempt at capturing the color of D. hellwigianum was fail. i blame the flower's iridescence. more closer to the true color, but the real color is more like steel blue.

 

[chibae]

Phalenopsis equalacea

 

[DragonsEye]

Very nice chids, Amp & Chib.

 

[Maiden]

Phalenopsis equalacea

THIS is pretty flowers !

 

[RSS]

Here is a Pleurothallis allenii that is flowering today. I tried to get a photo of the plant with the flower but there is just too many other plants in the way. This plant is very attached to a piece of driftwood, its probably been in there 7+ years.


DSC_0168 by randallsimpson, on Flickr

 

[DragonsEye]

Sweet lil bloom.

 

[Bonnie]

An unknown Stelis currently going crazy in the greenhouse





Stelis argentata





Scaphosepalum verrucosum



Pleurothallis species

 

[amphirion]

Trisetella gemmata, this one is always a crap shoot. it seems very sensitive to humidity/light conditions as the spikes will abort if neither optimal conditions are met. consequently, certain spikes hit the sweet spot while others abort. to add to the frustration, the flowers only last about 3 days or so... out of 10 spikes produced this season, only 3 managed to flower, and all at different periods. would have been more impressive if multiple flowers were able to bloom at the same time.

 

[chibae]

Still, very impressive

 

[DragonsEye]

Really like the leaves and flower color on the plant in the lower left corner of your Scaphosepalum verrucosum picture, Bonnie. Neat pleuro too, and nice coloration on the Stelis argentata.

Bummer about the the Tris being such a "prima donna", Amph. Still, very neat flower and, like Chib, you can color me impressed.

 

[RobinGordon]

These are some of my partner's orchids. It's the back end of winter here, and deeply overcast, so the colours aren't quite as bright as they could be.

Cymbidium sp. 'JetSet'

Mystery Orchid rescued from partner's mother

Cymbidium sp.

Cymbidium bedivere (Highbury)

 

[JMN16150]

Neat pics guys! I have a soft spot for dark maroon and white orchids

 

[DragonsEye]

Some very nice cyms you have there, RG.

This plant is hanging in there despite less than ideal conditions ...

 

[amphirion]

got this one as platystele umbellata, obviously it isnt. any guesses as to its true identity?

 

[goods]

got this one as platystele umbellata, obviously it isnt. any guesses as to its true identity?

Platystele vellota?

 

[amphirion]

Platystele vellota?

thanks for the attempt goods. P. vellota seems like a good candidate. I also think that it could be P. beatricis.

 

[goods]

P. beatricis definitely looks like a possibility as well, and honestly, I'm having trouble finding differences between vellota and beatricis. Is this one an import from Ecuador?