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Cattleya bowringiana Veitch 1885
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Common Name Bowring's Cattleya
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Belize and Guatemala are the home to this cool to warm growing lithophyte found at elevations of 210 to 900 meters on rocky cliffs near fast moving streams with a humid atmosphere that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect or nodding, long-stalked, few to many flowered, sheathed inflorescence that is not long lasting and gives rise to up to 15 flowers. It requires a short winter rest from water and fertilizer after the completion of flowering.
Synonyms Cattleya autumnalis Hort. 1885; Cattleya skinneri Bateman var. bowringiana (Veitch) Kraenzl. 1892
Cattleya harrisoniana Bateman ex Lindley 1836
Another Clone Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.
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Common Name Harrison's Cattleya
Flower Size 4 1/2" [11.25 cm]
This is a epiphytic or lithophytic, warm growing species found in humid swampy areas on bushes that blooms in the late summer on a terminal, short, few to several [2 to 6] flowered inflorescence subtended by a green sheath with fragrant, long-lived, waxy flowers and needs ample water, warmth and light while growing and a good rest after maturity.
Synonyms Cattleya brownii Rolfe 1894; Cattleya harrisoniae Batem. 1838; Cattleya harrisoniae Paxt 1838; Cattleya harrisonii P.N.Don 1840; Cattleya intermedia var variegata Hkr.; Cattleya loddigesii var. harrisoniana Lindley 1887; Cattleya papeinsiana C. Morr. 1845; Epidendrum harrisonianum Rchb.f 1861
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Cattleya labiata var alba In 2 and 3" clay pots and are 3 years out of flask
A Brazilian, variable epiphyte that blooms mostly in the fall and early winter on a short, few flowered inflorescence subtended with a double sheath and is a cool to warm growing orchid species.
Chysis laevis No photo but they are 8" tall and in a 2" plastic pot.
It is supposed to be yellow to orange and about 2" in flower size.
Encyclia alata [Bateman]Schlecter 1914
Common Name Winged Encyclia
Flower Size 2 to 2 1/2" [5 to 6.25 cm]
This is a hot to warm growing species from Mexico through Costa Rica ocurring at altitudes of 0-1000 meters, epiphytically on trees in open forests and occasionally terrestrially in soil pockets. There can be diverse differences in flower morphology in this species most often in size and the shape of the lateral sides of the lip. It has a honey-sweet smelling fragrance and they bloom in the spring on an apical, to 3 1/2' [105 cm]long, arching, branched inflorescence with many flowers.
Synonyms *Epidendrum alatum Bateman 1840; Epidendrum alatum var. grandiflorum Regel 1856; Epidendrܥe # { x , l , l Y ( T ^ j Y Times New Roman Symbol Arial Courier New Times New Roman
Any of the plants below can be had for $11 each!! 5 for $50
SPECIES
Brassia warscewiczii In a 2" clay pot and is a seedling 2 years out of flask
Found as a hot growing epiphyte in Ecuador below 250 meters in elevation where it blooms on a basal from the sheath, erect, several flowered, racemose inflorescence with fragrant flowers.
Brassia verrucosa In a 2" clay pot and is a seedling 2 years out of flask.
This large species is a warm to cool growing epiphyte of open humid forests from altitudes of 900 to 2400 meters that range into Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. It is distinguished from the other Brassia by the green warts on the base of the lip. They flower in the late spring through the early autumn on a basal, long, erect to arching, inflorescence which are loosely few flowered but arranged in pairs and are slightly fragrant and need regular waterings and fertilizer year round.
Brassia caudata In a 2 to 3" clay pot and is a seedling 2 years out of flask
Found from Florida south through the Caribbean and all of central America south to Peru as a caespitose, bifoliate epiphyte at elevations of sealevel to 1200 meters where it blooms on an arcuate, 8 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature psuedobulb and occuring in the spring.
Cadetia taylori [F. Mueller]Schlecter 1912
Flower Size Less than 3/4" [1.5 cm]
This species is from Eastern Australia and New Guinea and found at sealevel up to 1400 meters on trees and rocks in tropical rainforest, open forest and in mangrove swamps and is a hot to warm growing small, densly tufted, epiphytic plant, with pencil like pseudobulbs that blooms repeatedly in the spring through fall at the base of the leaf and the top of the psuedobulb with a small, short-lived, solitary flower, opening in succession one at a time and needs moderate shade and plenty of water while growing and a lessening after maturity. Potting or mounting on tree fern are fine as well as cold to warm temperaturer and high humidity and watering year round.
Synonyms *Bulbophyllum taylori F. Meuller 1874; Cadetia hispida (A. Rich.) Schltr. 191um alatum var. longipetalum (Lindl. & Paxton) Regel 1856; Epidendrum alatum var majus Hort. ex Sanders 1927; Epidendrum calochielum Hkr. 1841; Epidendrum formosum Klotsch 1853; Epidendrum formosum var. grandiflorum Regel; Epidendrum longipetalum Lindley & Paxton 1850-1
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Encyclia atrorubens (Rolfe) Schltr. 1918
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Common Name Dark Red Encyclia
A bifoliate, hot to warm growing epiphytic species found only in Mexico at elevations of 1100 to 1200 meters mostly in oak forests where it blooms in the summer on a 40" [1 meter] long, branched many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Encyclia diota subsp. atrorubens (Rolfe) Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1971; *Epidendrum atrorubens Rolfe 1896
Encyclia chacaoensis (Rchb. f.) Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1971
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Flower Size less than 2" [less than 5 cm]
Found from Nicaragua to Colombia and Venezuela as a hot to warm growing cockleshell epiphyte or lithophyte from oak forests at elevations of sealevel to 1400 meters where it blooms in the midwinter till early summer on an apical, 2 to 7 flowered, short, racemose inflorescence subtended by a basal sheath.
Synonyms Encyclia ionophlebia (Rchb. f.) Dressler 1961; *Epidendrum chacaoense Rchb
Laelia purpurata var carnea Lindley 1852-3
A light hot pink lip on a white flower.
Pleurothallis sonderana Rchb. f. 1849
Another View Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl
Flower Size 1/16" [7 mm]
A miniature epiphyte found in Brazil on branches and trunks of trees in cool, moist montane forests with terete leaves and short [3 cm], erect, few [p3 to 5] flowered inflorescence arising from the apex of stalk occuring in the summer and winter. I grow mine in a pot with sphagnum moss in a shaded location with some dappled sun, warm to cool temperatures and ample water o keep moist at all times.
Renanthera monachica Ames 1915 These are seedlings in a 2 to 2 1/2" plastic pot and are 3 years out of flask. They are around 4" tall.
This is a Philippine species from the island of Luzon that is a warm to hot growing epiphyte and it blooms on an axillary, suberect, simple, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, laxly racemose inflorescence that has tubular bracts, occuring in the late winter and spring with many [6 to 30], non-fragrant, long-lasting flowers. It is a monopodial, vandanaceous, medium sized epiphyte with an axillary inflorescence and does best in a wood slat basket with little or no medium.
The following species are at individual prices but if you get 5 plants total all 11.00 plants that you choose will be 10.00 but the following stay at the price quoted.
Ancistrochilus rothschildianus O'Brien 1907
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16.00 NBS
Flower Size 2" to 3" [5.5 cm]
A small, sympodial, epiphytic plant, with pseudobulbs that look like Hershey's kisses. It is a cool to hot grower from Guinea, Sierra Leone and across to Uganda on bare trunks and larger branches of large forest trees at elevations of 500 to 1100 meters that can be potted and watered regularly while growing and less when not. The arching, to 8" long, pubescent inflorescence, form from the base of the leafed or leafless psuedobulb and can carry 2 to 5 large, fragrant flowers occuring in the winter, summer and fall.
Synonyms Pachystoma rothschildiana (O'Brien) Sander 1927
Barkeria halbingeri Thien 1973
12.00 in pots NBS but soon
Flower Size 2 1/4" [4.5 cm]
Found in Mexico in the state of Oaxaca as a lithophyte where it blooms on a 6" [15 cm] long, many flowered, racemose inflorescence occuring in the spring. Even though it is a lithophyte it does well mounted to wood and given hot to cool conditions with bright light and a reduction of fertilizer and water in the winter.
!Brassavola cucullata [L.] R.Br. 1813
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15.00 NBS mounted, medium sized plants, a year away from blooming
Common Name Hooded Brassavola
Flower Size 7" [17.5 cm]
One to two flowered epiphytic plant that smells somewhat skunky at night, grows best mounted on wood and comes from the West Indies, Central and northern South America where it is a warm to cool growing epiphyte of coastal rainforests up to 1800 meters in elevation where it blooms from summer till autumn on a short peduncle that is borne at the junction of the single leaf and terete psuedobulb. Flowers that appear later in it's season and exposed to a cold snap will have a redder appearance. This is the type species for the genus.
Synonyms Bletia cucullata (L.) Rchb. f. 1861; Brassavola appendiculata A. Rich. 1845; Brassavola cucullata [L.]R.Br. var cuspidata [Hkr.] LIndley 1887; Brassavola cucullata [L.]R.Br. var elegans Schlecter 1919; Brassavola cuspidata Hooker 1839; Brassavola elongata Hort. 1954; Brassavola odorattissima Regel 1852; Cymbidium cucullatum Sw. 1799; *Epidendrum cucullatum L. 1763
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Cattleya aurantiaca [Bateman ex Lindley]P.N.Don 1840
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18.00 NBS
Common Name Orange Cattleya
Flower Size 1 /2" [2.5 cm]
This stout epiphytic and occasional lithophytic species is found in El Salvador and Mexico at elevations of 300 to 1600 meters in tropical and lower mountain rain forests on exposed rocks, or on trees in areas of extreme heat and cold and it grows warm to cool and flowers from summer till autumn on a terminal, 6 1/2" [16 cm] long, few to many flowered, umbelliform inflorescence arising on a mature psuedobulb. This plant's flowers are the smallest in the genus and can self-pollinate which causes the flowers to not open fully. This species and C. skinneri naturally hybrid to create C. guatemalensis.
Synonyms Broughtonia aurea Lindl. 1840; *Epidendrum aurantiacum Batem. ex Lindley 1838; Epidendrum aureum Lindley 1853
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Cattleya deckeri Klotsch 1855
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20.00 NBS
Common Name Decker's Cattleya
Flower Size 3 1/2" [8.75 cm]
Found in Panama to Trinidad at elevations of 0 to 900 meters and is the only Cattleya found in both Central and South America on trees along riverbanks and under bushes on rocks and blooms in the fall on a 5 1/2" [13.75 cm] long, erect, several flowered racemose inflorescence with slightly fragrant flowers. The fall flowering separates it from Cattleya skinneri with which it is often confused.
Synonyms Cattleya patinii Cogn. 1900; Cattleya skinneri var autumnalis Allen 1942; Cattleya skinneri var parviflora Hkr. 1856; Cattleya skinneri var patinii 1914
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Cattleya elongata Barb. Rodr. 1877
18.00 This is a large plant NBS-BS But soon, this year, most likely. It is in a 4" plastic pot with 4 mature pseudobulbs with the largest being 8" including the leaves.
Common Name Cattleya with the Elongated Stalk
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
A Brazilian bifoliate species found on rock outcroppings with bright light that has a terminal, 2" [5 cm] long , 2 to several [10] flowered inflorescence with fragrant, long-lived, heavy-textured,color variable flowers occuring in the late summer.
Synonyms Cattleya alexandrae Linden & Rolfe 1892
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Cattleya lawrenceana Rchb. f. 1885
Another color form Photo courtesy of Dale Borders
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18.00 NBS but some are starting to Soon
Common Name Sir Trevor Lawrence's Cattleya
Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]
This is a Venezuelan and Guyanan species found especially atop Mount Roraima at elevations around 250 to 3000 meters as a hot to cool growing epiphyte epiphyte that blooms in the spring and early summer on a usually erect, terminal, racemose, few to several [5 to 8] flowered inflorescence subtended by a broad brownish-purple sheath.
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Cattleya lueddemanniana Rchb. f.
Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl, plant courtesy of RF Orchids
14.00 NBS but all at least 7" tall with leaf
Common Name Lueddemann's Cattleya
Flower Size 8 1/2" [21.25 cm]
A Venezuelan hot to warm growing epiphyte found on the Northern coastal range in fairly low scrubby hills that blooms in the summer or fall on a terminal, short, few [3 to 5] flowered inflorescence subtended by a broad basal sheath that has fragrant flowers and is found at altitudes of 0 to 500 meters.
Synonyms Cattleya bassettii hort. 1887; Cattleya dawsoni Warn. 1862; Cattleya labiata var. dawsonii [Warner] DuBuy. 1878; Cattleya labiata var. lueddmannia (Rchb. f.) Rchb. f. 1883; Cattleya labiata var. roezlii Rchb.f 1882; Cattleya labiata var wilsoniana Rchb.f 1887; Cattleya malouana Linden 1885; Cattleya mossiae Hkr. var autumnalis hort. 1887; Cattleya roezlii Rchb. f. 1882; Cattleya speciosissima hort. 1868; Cattleya speciosissima var lowii Anderson 1868; Cattleya speciosissima var lueddemannia 1882-97; Epidendrum labiatum var lueddemannia [Rchb.f]Rchb.f 1861
Cattleya loddigesii Lindl. 1823
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Common Name Loddiges' Cattleya
Flower Size 4 1/2" [11.25 cm]
A cool to warm growing, bifoliate epiphyte or lithophyte that is from near the coast from Bahia Brazil south to Argentina and Paraguay, in both sun and shade and blooms in the late summer on a terminal, medium length, long-lived, few to several [2 to 6] flowered inflorescence subtended by a small, broad, dried sheath that has waxy, fragrant, long-lived, color variable flowers.
Synonyms Cattleya arembergii Scheidw. 1843; Cattleya ovata Lindley 1838; Epidendrum canaliculatum Vell. 1825; Epidendrum harrisoniae Rchb.f; Epidendrum loddigesii Rchb.f 1861; Epidendrum violaceum Lodd. 1819
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Cattleya skinneri Bateman 1839
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22.00 Blooming size plants!!
Common Name Skinner's Cattleya or in Costa Rica - Guaria Morada, in Guatemala - Candelaria, Central America - San Sebastian
Flower Size 3 1/2" [8.75 cm]
From Mexico to northern South America as a bifoliate epiphyte where it is found in humid forests or terrestrial on granite cliff banks at an altitude of 200 to 2300 meters and blooms in the spring through summer on a terminal, to 5 1/2" [13.75 cm] long, usually erect, few to many flowered inflorescence subtended by a large green basal sheath and carries slightly fragrant flowers that often open not all at once, it likes to be mounted on wood and is an intermediate to hot growing species and is the national flower of Costa Rica. They like a dry winter rest and will bloom from brown or green sheaths that were formed the summer before.
Synonyms Cattleya laelioides Lem. 1852-3; Cattleya patinii Cgn. 1900; Epidendrum huegelianum Rchb.f 1862
Cattleya walkeriana Gardner 1843
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18.00 NBS A year or so but decent size
Common Name Walker's Cattleya
Flower Size 4 1/2 " [9 to 12 cm]
This is the only Catleya [other than C. nobilor] that the terminal, shorter, 1 to few flowered inflorescence arises from the base of the psuedobulb appearing as a new growth and has fragrant flowers that open very flat and it hails from Brazil where it grows on giant old trees on rocky limestone plateaus, small trees or moist rocks near streams at elevations up to 2000 meters and blooms on a 3" [7.5 cm] long, arcuate, single to few flowered inflorescence occuring mostly in the late winter and spring but can occur at other times.
Synonyms Cattleya bulbosa Lindley 1847; Cattleya gardneriana Rchb.f 1870; Cattleya princeps B.-Rod. 1877; Cattleya schroederiana Rchb. f. 1883; Epidendrum walkerianum [Gardn.]Rchb.f 1862
!Diaphananthe pellucida [Lindley]Schlecter 1914
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14.00 NBS but soon, maybe this spring In 4" plastic pots
Flower Size 1/2" [2 cm]
This hot growing, medium sized, epiphytic species is from Sierra Leone to the Congo in evergreen forests, on trunks and lower branches at elevations of 600 to 1500 meters and blooms in the fall and winter on a 8 to 20" [20 to 50 cm] long, pendant raceme that arises from below leaves or in the axils of the lower leaves with many fragrant flowers. This species does well in either mounted or in a pot in heavy shade, and high humidity, as well as hot to warm temperatures.
Synonyms Angraecum althoffi Krzl. 1889; *Angraecum pellucidum Lindley 1884; Angraecum thonnerianum Krzl.; Listrostachys althoffi (Kraenzl.) T. Durand & Schinz 1895; Listrostachys pellucida [Lindley]Rchb.f 1864; Listrostachys thonneriana Kraenzl. ex De Wild. & T. Durand 1862
Dimerandra elegans (Focke) Siegerist 1986
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22.00 BS All are [or will be any day] blooming right now, a real beauty, flowers last longer than other Dimerandra and they are successive so stays in bloom for months. This is really worth it, a specimen plant of this species is something to behold, In 3" plastic pots
Found from Costa RIca south to Colombia at elevations of 150 to 750 meters as a hot to warm growing epiphyte that blooms in the fall on a fascile of several succesively opening flowers that arise terminally on new leafed stems and older leafless stems and although they last only a couple of days each stem has several flowers that open successively and put on quite a display.
Synonyms *Isochilus elegans Focke 1851
Encyclia lancifolia (Pav. ex Lindl.) Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1971
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13.00 NBS about 6" leaf and pseudobulb
A Mexican epiphyte that blooms in the summer and fall with an apical, several flowered, fragrant inflorescence.
Synonyms *Epidendrum lancifolium Pav. ex Lindl. 1853
Encyclia ghiesbreghtiana (A. Rich. & Galeotti) Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1961
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25.00 Blooming size plants
Common Name Ghiesbreght's Encyclia
Flower Size1 1/2" [4 cm]
Found in Mexico on the Pacific coast as a cool to cold growing miniature epiphyte in wet pine-oak forests at 2000 to 2700 meters in elevation that blooms in the winter and spring with an apical, 1 1/2 to 5" [4 to 12 cm], few [1 to 3] flowered inflorescence. Best grown mounted on tree fern, cold to warm temperatures, moderately bright light and watering while growing and a lessening in the winter.
Synonyms *Epidendrum ghiesbrechtianum A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845
Encyclia meliosma (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1918
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30.00 Blooming size
Common Name Honey-sweet Encyclia
A spring and early summer bloomer with occasionally fragrant flowers on an apical, branched, many flowered inflorescence from Oaxaca Mx., at 300 to 1100 meters in elevation , as an epiphyte in trees on dry hillsides.
Synonyms*Epidendrum meliosmum Rchb. f. 1869
Epidendrum fulgens Brongn. 1834 - See also Epidendrum calanthum Rchb. f. & Warsz. 1854
Different Color Variety Photo courtesy of Glen Ladnier
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18.00 Almost BS, should be this sring or summer 4" clay pots
Flower Size 1" [12 cm]
Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador are the locales for this pretty, reedstem terrestrial or lithophyte from elevations of 700 to 2200 meters in tropical montane forests where it blooms on a terminal, 7" [17.5 cm] long, few flowered, subumbellate inflorescence arising on a mature stem that occurs in the late spring and summer and is an hot to cool growing orchid that likes wet humid conditions and can take some full sun.
Gongora galeata [Lindley]Rchb.f. 1854
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15.00 NBS but will within a year!! Plants have 11" leaves.
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
This is a large Mexican epiphytic, rarely lithophytic or terrestrial species found in mountain rain and cloud forests with liquambar at altitudes of 600 to 1800 meters that grows hot to warm and is suited for wire basket culture with sphagnum and woodchips and blooms in the summer and fall with basal 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, pendant, many flowered inflorescences arising on a mature pseudobulb and a long-lived, fragrant flower with a fragrance akin to oranges. It is an evergreen species and requires a semi dry rest in the winter.
Synonyms Acropera atropurpurea hort ex Heynh. 1841; Acropera loddigesii Lindley 1833; *Maxillaria galeata Lindley 1842
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Laelia rubescens Lindley 1840 subgen Laelia sec Podolaelia Schlecter Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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25.00 Blooming size plants.
Common Name Rosy Tinted Laelia
Flower Size 2" [4 to 7 cm]
A Central American cool to hot growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with a single [rarely 2] leaf of dry areas and wooded regions at an elevation of sealevel to 1700 meters on exposed tree trunks where they withstand full sun for hours, yet get plenty of air movement to cool down. They are distinguished from other Laelia by their compessed wrinkled psuedobulbs with a leathery apical leaf and they flower in the autumn and winter on a new growth with a to 3' [90 cm] long, terete inflorescence with fragrant flowers all clustered at the apex that may close at night or not, covered in papery sheaths. Mount on tree fern slabs and give bright light, ample water while growing and a dry winter rest after flowering
Synonyms Bletia acuminata Rchb.f 1861; Bletia peduncularis (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1861; Bletia rubescens Rchb.f 1861; Bletia violacea (Rchb. f.) Rchb. f. 1861; Cattleya acuminata Beer 1853; Cattleya pendicularis Beer 1854; Cattleya rubescens Beer 1854; Laelia acuminata Lindley 1841; Laelia peduncularis Lindley 1842; Laelia pubescens Lemoine 1852; Laelia violacea Rchb.f 1854
Nidema boothii (Lindl.) Schltr. 1922
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Flower Size about 1" [about 2.2 cm]
A small, epiphytic, warm to hot growing orchid found in Mexico to Panama as well as Cuba and Surinam in treetops of wet tropical forests from sealevel to 1500 meters where it blooms with fragrant flowers in the spring with the erect, to 6" [15 cm] long, laxly few flowered inflorescence with scarious brown bracts arising from the apex of a newly emerging psuedobulb. This species although rambling in growth habit can be potted, but mounting on tree fern works as well if given warm to cool temperatures, bright light, and lots of water while growing and a lessening in the winter.
Synonyms Dinema paleaceum Lindl. 1840; Encyclia paleacea (Rchb. f.) Leme 1955; Epidendrum auritum Lindl. 1843; Epidendrum boothii (Lindl.) L.O. Williams 1939; Epidendrum paleaceum (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1866; Epidendrum palaceum (Rchb. f.) Rchb. f. 1866; *Maxillaria boothii Lindl. 1838; Nidema paleacea (Lindl.) Acua 1939
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Oncidium jonesianum Rchb.f 1883
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18.00 NBS mounted on wood sticks. 3 to 4" long leaves
Flower Size 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm]
From southern Brazil, Paraguay,and Uruguay in riverine forests, this species is an cool to hot growing epiphyte that blooms in the fall with an arching to pendant, 2' [60 cm] long, few to several [10 to 15] flowered raceme with ovate, triangular bracts and longlasting flowers.
Synonyms Cohniella jonesiana (Rchb. f.) Christenson 1999; Stilifolium jonesianum (Rchb. f.) Koniger & Pongr. 1997
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Oncidium microchilum Bateman ex Lindl. 1840
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15.00 NBS about 3" tall.
Flower Size to 1" [to 2.5 cm]
This is a Mexican and Guatemalan mule eared epiphytic species that grows warm to cool and blooms in the summer with a densly few to many flowered, to 4' [120 cm] long, multi-branched panicle with longlasting flowers arising on a new growth.
Oncidium oblongatum Lindl. 1844
Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey
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25.00 NBS but are of a good size. WIll bloom within a year.
A hot to cool growing, compact, Mexican epiphytic species from dry forests at elevatons up to 2100 meters that blooms with a erect, short branched, many flowered panicle.
Oncidium ornithorrhynchum H.B.K. 1815
Floral Closeup Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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13.00 BS nice sized plants will bloom this year in 3 to 4" clay pots
Flower Size 3/4" [to 2 cm]
This is a northern Central American, cold to warm growing species that grows as an epiphyte in humid forests at altitudes up to 1500 meters and likes a semi-winter rest. As a medium sized, epiphytic plant the oval compressed 2 1/2" [6 cm] psuedobulbs are fairly closely grouped on the rhizome and as a rule there are two apical, flexible, curved, linear-lanceolate, 8" [20 cm] leaves. The basal, curving or pendulous, to 2' [60 cm] long, dense and branched, strongly arched panicle, sometimes two to a mature psuedobulb, arise in the winter and have numerous fragrant longlasting flowers. I mounted this species on cork and it thrives, many times blooming more than once a year.
Pleurothallis quadrifida [La Llave & Lex]Lindley 1842
Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
18.00 Blooming Size Plants - coming into spike now!
Flower Size 1/4 to 1/2" [7 to 9 mm]
This medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic or occasional lithophytic species is found in the West Indies, Mexico, Venezuela and Central America at altitudes up to 1800 meters in wet, exposed locations often in scrub forest and blooms mostly in the summer on an apical, erect, simple, to 15" [38 cm] long, simultaneously opening, many flowered, inflorescence subtended by a compressed sheath with the sweetly scented flowers held all to one side of the inflorescence which arises well above the leaves. Grow in a pot or mounted with semi-shade and give cool to hot temperatures with year round moisture and good air movement.
Synonyms *Dendrobium quadrifidum La Llave & Lex. 1825; Humboldtia incompta (Rchb. f.) Kuntze ?; Humboldtia longissima (Lindl.) Kuntze ?; Humboldtia nicaraguensis (Rchb. f.) Kuntze ?; Humboldtia quadrifida (Lex.) Kuntze; Humboltia incompta (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia longissima (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia nicaraguensis (Liebm.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia quadrifida (Lex.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia racemiflora (Lindl. ex Lodd.) Kuntze 1891; Physosiphon nicaraguensis Liebm. 1853; Pleurothallis ghiesbreghtiana A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Pleurothallis incompta Rchb. f. 1854; Pleurothallis longissima Lindl. 1859; Pleurothallis lyroglossa Schltr. 1910; Pleurothallis nicaraguensis (Liebm.) Rchb. f. 1861; Pleurothallis niederleinii Schltr. 1918; Pleurothallis racemiflora Lindley ex Hkr. 1824
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Schomburgkia wallisii
15.00 NBS but all at least 8" tall with leaf
Common Name Lueddeman's Schomburgkia
This species is from Colombia and is a hot to warm growing epiphyte that is very similar to Schomburgkia lueddemaniana [the plant in the photo] and differs mainly in Geography and larger flowers.
!Tetramicra canaliculata [Aubl.] Urban 15.00 BS Mounted
Common Name Groove Leafed Orchid
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
A warm growing, lithophytic or epiphytic Florida and Caribbean native found in lowland scrub at the base of rosemary bushes or on rocky hillsides among limestone in full sun with sticklike psuedobulbs, and blooms on a 2' [60 cm] long, slender, racemose, few flowered inflorescence that has several sheaths and ovate, acute bracts and the flowers opening in succession, all occuring in late spring and summer with slightly fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Bletia rigida Rchb.f 1861; Brassavola rigida Bold. ?; Cymbidium rigidum Willd. 1805; Epidendrum canaliculatum [Aubl.] Poiret 1810; Helliborne folis rigidis Plumier 1703; *Limodorum canaliculatum Aubl. 1775; Limodorum folis subulatus Wildn. 1758; Tetramicra rigida [Wilde] Lindley 1831;
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Tolumnia prionochilum - No photo - Blooming size plants in 2" clay pots - Small fan orchid with yellow and red flowers from Puerto Rico - some are in spike now.
15.00 Blooming Size Plants - some in spike now!
Tolumnia velutina (Lindl. ex Paxton) Braem 1986 15.00 NBS but Soon - Mounted
A Cuban hot to warm growing epiphytic fan shaped species that blooms on an erect, wiry, racemose to paniculate inflorescence with a few flowers.
Synonyms Oncidium variegatum var velutinum Greiseb. 1866; *Oncidium velutinum Lindl. ex Paxton 1851
!Tuberolabium kotoense Yamam. 1924 15.00 NBS But probably this summer - Mounted
Flower Size 1/2" [1.2 cm]
Found in the Taiwan and the Philippines on the trunks of ficus trees in montane forests at elevations around 300 meters as a hot to warm growing, miniature sympodial epiphyte that blooms on an 11" [to 25 cm] long, axillary, lateral, pendant, few to many [8 to 50] flowered inflorescence with the waxy, fleshy, flowers opening simultaneously and occuring in the winter. Grow this one mounted on tree fern or wood in semi-shade, high humidity and cool to hot temperatures.
Synonyms Saccolabium quisumbingii L. O. Williams 1938; Tuberolabium quisumbingii (L.O. Williams) Christenson 1992
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HYBRIDS All hybrids are $11 each 5 for $50
Brassia Rex 'Sakota' In 4" clay pot and is a seedling 3 years out of flask.
Brassia Datacosa 'Coo's Bay' AM/AOS In a 3" clay pot and is a seedling 3 years out of flask
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A cross between Cattleya El Dorado Splash [has Cattleya bicolor, intermedia, walkeriana, dolosa and loddigesii as parents] and Caularthroun bicornutum. Makes a nice pink and white Cattleya with an interesting shape.
LC Bethune "Mendenhall" 2" clay pots and is a seedling 2 years out of flask.
Don't know what to expect except that it should have some red in it.
BLC Hunting Island 'Hawaii' X BLC Toshie Aoki 'Pizzaz' In a 3" clay pot and is a seedling 3 years out of flask
LC Liptoni In a clay 3" pot and are 2 years out of flask
This is a primary hybrid between Cattleya labiata and Laelia anceps and are blooming out nicely
Potinara Beaufort Gold 'Lemon Drop X BLC Goldenzelle 'Sandra' AM/AOS In a 3" clay pot and is 3 years out of flask.
Expect large yellow flowers.
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