Tuesday, June 27, 2017

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.

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

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.

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Aranthera Anne Black, a hybrid registered in1957


This plant is very easy to grow.  It is in the island cooler interior that I have seen the best and brightest colored flowers of this hybrid.