SHOW US YOUR ORCHIDS/FLOWERS!

[nepenthes_ak]

ENVY ENVY ENVY!

great orchids... definitely beats my wilted hanging on by the last thread one.

 

[KateKatinaite]

Quote[/b] (JustLikeAPill @ Dec. 12 2006,10:19)]Very nice. The white one (3 and 4) reminds me of the alien for independance day.

for me it's more tripods from War of the Worlds  

 

[herenorthere]

Cool - I never saw an alba Enc. cochleata before.  They're known as Anacheilium cochleatum now, by the way.  The cockleshell Encyclias (Enc. radiata is another popular one) were reclassified in the last few years.  I guess someone couldn't get a plant taxonomy PhD without reclassifying something.

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

Thanks Bruce. Now I have to make a new label. Dang they love reclassifying things. Sheesh.

I had another plant that was suposed to be the standard form, but turned out to be a Laparis species instead. I was mad! I ended up with this guy in a grab bag from a guy off orchid source. I am happy. Just wish it would start a second growth point so it would get bigger. They normaly have more than 3 flowers. That is the second time it has only produced 3.

 

[DerbyCityNeps]

my local orchid shop has the Alba form of that. it has a slight fragrance to it too! i got the typical form though.
Alex

 

[elgecko]

Here are a few of mine.

 

[FarmerDave]

I like the first one

 

[Drosera36]

Is that last one a pansy orchid?

-Ben

 

[DerbyCityNeps]

Quote[/b] ]I like the first one

Paphilopedium(sp?)

Quote[/b] ]Is that last one a pansy orchid?

-Ben

yup! Miltonia

 

[herenorthere]

OK; I set up a photobucket account and let's see what happens, with my Bulbo blumei as guinea pig:

 

[DerbyCityNeps]

congrats haha. what are the onion looking plants behing that?
Alex

 

[herenorthere]

Those are Platanthera ciliaris seedlings.  It's one of my favorite US native orchids:

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

Nice plants bruce! I like the blumii. The native orchid is nuce too! Can it take hot summers?

 

[herenorthere]

That orchid's native range is from here down the coastal plain to Florida and across to Texas. So it can take a wide range of conditions. My plant is from Arkansas.

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

ooooohhhhh and you grow it as a terestrial outdoors? Could you be so kind as to let me know when you devide it?

 

[herenorthere]

Will do.

 

[JMatt]

Gotta love those Masdevallias!

 

[JMatt]

Wups!
Here they are.

 

[herenorthere]

Nice. Do you know what species/hybrid they are? I love the whole Masdie clan, but can't grow them. It gets too hot in the summer and too dry in the winter and they end up hating me. I think it's the desert-like winter air that really does them in.

 

[JMatt]

The single flower is M. Southern Sun. (M. veitchiana x M. hirtzii).
The other one is >. Copper Angel. (M. triangularis x M. veitchiana).
I have some others in bloom too, just need to take pictures.
Later