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Old 04-25-2009, 11:52 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Default Re: Vanilla Orchid

Ok, here are some of the micro-bloomers. These orchids are from Pleurothallis, and have flowers no larger than 1cm. There are close to 1,000 species in the genus, so I don't normally even try to ID them further than that. The defining feature of the genus, beyond its miniscule size, is that it blooms directly onto the leaf rather than producing an erect or pendant raceme.

I have about 500 plants of various species right now - they're small and they don't take up a lot of space in the orchidarium. Pleurothallids are warm to cool growers. The first 3 plants are in cultivation, and the remainder are wild ones; these are the most common cloud-forest orchids, although they're also among the hardest to spot unless they're blooming.















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