SHOW US YOUR ORCHIDS/FLOWERS!

[Radagast]

Haha the flower in the 2nd photo looks like some sort of creature. Very cool!

 

[Dave S.]

Gongora rufescens flower spike

 

[SFLguy]

Just bought this paph. niveum

And since this is also a flower thread, here's a nice hibiscus

This thing's about 6"-7" across

 

[DragonsEye]

Lovely Gongora, Dave. Which one is it?

Nice niv. you have there, SFL.

 

[Dave S.]

Lovely Gongora, Dave. Which one is it?

It is G. rufescens and the flowers have a great scent to them.

 

[SFLguy]

Nice niv. you have there, SFL.

Thanks

 

[SFLguy]

Also we got a new orchid this weekend

It's an Amesiella monticola, it's supposedly from Luzon, does anyone grow this by any chance? Any culture tips?

 

[DragonsEye]

Nope, never tried that one. Seem to recall reading at some point that it can be grown like a phal.

 

[SFLguy]

Nope, never tried that one. Seem to recall reading at some point that it can be grown like a phal.

Thanks for the info it apparently grows at the same altitudes as N. Ventricosa there, maybe they even live in the same area on Luzon

 

[SubRosa]

It is G. rufescens and the flowers have a great scent to them.

Glad to see yours flowering too! It really has become my favorite plant. Little red dragons floating in a cloud of perfume.........

 

[eithan0693]

Flower stock forming on my orchid

 

[chibae]

Meet my baby, Phal tremolo

 

[europa_13]

I've gotten most of my orchids from my Gramma as rescues after they're done flowering (her plant gets replaced with another flowering orchid for her window once it's done blooming, and the cycle continues). Some of them are too rotted to save by the time I get them, but this one just had a little baby! About a year after re-potting.

 

[anramitaco]

DragonsEye, that Psyg. pusilla is adorable! Does it keep blooming from the same spike? Speaking of micro-minis, here's one of my smallest flowers: Stelis microchila. It's hard to appreciate with the naked eye, but if you magnify it you see hairy sepals. The inflorescence is about an inch long.




Besides orchids that make you squint, I have a thing for Angraecoids. Here's Aeranthes grandiflora. The flowers are supposed to smell of butterscotch, but I think it smells more like very ripe (read: rotting) fruit.

 

[theplantman]

Nice stuff, Chris!

 

[maxima]

B. Elizabeth Ann Buckleberry has put out 3 blooms this time but Echinolabium still hasn't bloomed in 2 years in spite of good growth...Any tips ?

 

[Whimgrinder]

My Bulbophyllum echinolabium took three+ years to start flowering. It has to reach a significant size to flower.

 

[maxima]

Thank you Whimgrinder, that's good to know.

 

[RSS]

Turning out to be a good windowsill orchid.

Phal. cornucervi var. alba by randallsimpson, on Flickr


Phal. cornucervi var. alba by randallsimpson, on Flickr

 

[Whimgrinder]

Turning out to be a good windowsill orchid.

Phal. cornucervi var. alba by randallsimpson, on Flickr


Phal. cornucervi var. alba by randallsimpson, on Flickr

Thats gorgeous, Randy! I've always admired cornu-cervi. I should look into getting a plant.