Cattleya Dahlenburg Mini

Cattleya Dahlenburg MiniThis is rather nice mini Cattleya hybrid, named after the town where the grower (Karge) is located. I am actually not that big on Cattleya hybrids in general, and I think what it is I really like about this particular one is the way it grows – mounted on a small terracotta pipe. It seems well suited for this particular mounting technique […]

By |2017-10-13T11:25:45+02:00November 25th, 2011|Categories: My orchids|Tags: , , , |6 Comments

Epidendrum endresii

Epidendrum endresiiA lovely intermediate to cool growing epiphyte from Costa Rica and Panama where it grows in cloud forests at elevations from 1200 up to 2400 meters. My plant is fairly small in size, measuring about 12-15 cm tall, but apparently the species can grow about twice as large. It produces a small cluster of flowers on a terminal inflorescence. Very petite and sweet flowers measuring […]

By |2017-10-13T11:25:45+02:00November 18th, 2011|Categories: My orchids|Tags: , , , , |2 Comments

Almost the smallest orchid in the world

Platystele microtatanthaPlatystele microtatantha is one of the smallest orchids in the world. The flower is not much bigger than the tip of a pen at about 2-3 mm or so, I admit it is a bitch to measure… The whole plant, even though it is quite a healthy specimen, does not measure more than a couple of centimeters across. The worlds smallest orchid ever […]

By |2017-10-13T11:25:46+02:00November 13th, 2011|Categories: My orchids|Tags: , , , , , |6 Comments

Bulbophyllum pulchellum

Bulbophyllum pulchellumSuch a beautiful and exotic looking orchid…. this is one I am kind of holding on to even though I don’t really have the space. I have bloomed it sucessfully on the windowsill, but I get one, perhaps two flowers. In the warm/intermediate vivarium I get about 5 flowers per bulb, and all the bulbs bloom. So I grow it in the very, […]

By |2017-10-13T11:25:46+02:00November 6th, 2011|Categories: My orchids|Tags: , , , , |8 Comments
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