Bulbophyllum (echinolabium x phalaenopsis)

I brought this plant a few years ago from Carter and Holmes.  It has been growing slowly, at least when compared with my other Bulbophyllum.  The flower is richly colored and the stink it produces is faint when compared with the sheer revolting and powerful smell that issues from the parent species.  I will repot it when it finishes blooming to a basket to see if this helps the plant grow larger.

Bulbophyllum facetum

Cattleya dowiana Bateman & Rchb.f 1886. this is var. Rosita

Dendrobium purpureum Roxb. 1820, can grow to be expectedly large, this is the typical form.

Bulbophyllum macranthum Lindley 1844, first blooming in my garden

I brought this plant at the 2017 Puerto Rico Orchid society show.  I liked the plant because it was large and had many growths.  It is growing on a plank of wood.  When the rainy season started I began watering it every day, if it had not rained that day.  To my delight, it started producing new leads.  At the moment it has six new growths that are on their way to grow larger and huskier than the previous growths.  It has a single flower and two buds.  In the species the flower is non resupinating, so it is upside down.

Dendrobium schuitemanii described in 2010

This plant is often labeled as Cadetia taylori,   It was described as a new species of Dendrobium in the volume 74 of the Orchid Digest in the issue #4 October-December 2010.