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VIEIRA
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my rock garden Orchid
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June 05, 2007, 12:06:54 AM »
hello!
more fotos my orchid.
Everything of good
Jorge Vieira
Batalha
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OPHRYS CILIATA [1].VERNIXIA.SPECULUM (41)
OPHRYS CILIATA [1].VERNIXIA.SPECULUM (66)
OPHRYS CILIATA [1].VERNIXIA.SPECULUM (67)
OPHRYS CILIATA [1].VERNIXIA.SPECULUM (70)
OPHRYS CILIATA [1].VERNIXIA.SPECULUM (80)
OPHRYS VERNIXIA (50
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Paul T
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June 05, 2007, 01:29:16 AM »
Jorge,
More of your wonderful Ophrys. Thank you so much. The second last pic (the last of the O. ciliata) certainly does show how similar they are to a wasp doesn't it. Not surprising that the wasps end up being fooled by the pheromones put out by the plant, as there is certainly nothing in appearance to obviously give them away as fake. I didn't realise that Ophrys came in forms with such significant flower heads? That last species looks like it has soem decent height and branching to it. I always thought they were fairly short with only a few flowers to them.
Thanks again for the pictures.
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Min winter temp -8 or -9°C. Max summer temp 40°C. Thankfully, maybe once or twice a year only.
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Jorge,
What a fabulous plant, beautiful.
Paddy
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Paddy Tobin, Waterford, Ireland
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Anthony Darby
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June 05, 2007, 09:54:24 PM »
I don't have any 'mirror' ophrys.....yet. Will have to seek em out?
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Anthony Darby, Auckland, New Zealand.
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VIEIRA
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June 05, 2007, 10:53:04 PM »
hello thanks friends!
I have seeds…
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VIEIRA
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Re: my rock garden Orchid
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June 05, 2007, 10:59:29 PM »
hello!
more fotos my orchid. ophrys lutea
Everything of good
Jorge Vieira
Batalha
Portugal
OPHRYS LUTEA
OPHRYS LUTEA (29)
OPHRYS LUTEA (33)
OPHRYS LUTEA (35)
OPHRYS LUTEA (53)
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June 05, 2007, 11:14:22 PM »
Beautiful!
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Paddy Tobin, Waterford, Ireland
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Anthony Darby
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June 05, 2007, 11:42:50 PM »
Seeds need sterile medium, which I have. Never had the nerve to try it, but would like to give it a go Jorge.
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Anthony Darby, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Joakim B
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June 07, 2007, 11:13:30 AM »
Nice plants Jorge
Hope they do well for You.
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Potting in Lund in Southern Sweden and Coimbra in the middle of Portugal as well as a hill side in central Hungary
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June 07, 2007, 02:51:52 PM »
Anthony,
Probably not necessary for you but I saw a man in the Botanic Gardens in Dublin use a very simple method of producing a sterile medium. He was using it for fern spores. He filled a small pot with ordinary seed compost and poured boiling water from a kettle through it, then covered it with clingfilm.
Paddy
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Sterile medium would have to be a specially formulated agar based jelly with sugars and amino acids present (often growers use Marmite or lumps of raw potato). Orchid seeds have no cotyledons, so gain all their nourishment from the soluble products of digestion of organic matter by fungi.
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Anthony Darby, Auckland, New Zealand.
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