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Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: fredg on June 17, 2015, 02:46:29 PM

Title: Disa atricapilla
Post by: fredg on June 17, 2015, 02:46:29 PM

A winter growing Disa, it requires a dry summer rest. The buds seem to take forever to open. One not to grow in a Sarracenia lagoon

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Title: Re: Disa atricapilla
Post by: Pauli on June 18, 2015, 07:58:30 AM

A obscure but nevertheless wonderful flower and very fine pictures

Title: Re: Disa atricapilla
Post by: Peter Maguire on June 18, 2015, 10:17:21 PM

Lovely photos of a fascinating plant Fred.
Am I correct in thinking it has a relatively short flower stalk? The one I flowered last year had such a long, spindly flower stalk that it needed support for the inflorescence. It hasn't yet flowered yet this year.

Title: Re: Disa atricapilla
Post by: fredg on June 18, 2015, 10:24:12 PM

Prospective height 5 - 30cm.  I think that one is about 15 - 20cm. So it is a little spindly when you see all the buds at the top.

Title: Re: Disa atricapilla
Post by: Peter Maguire on June 19, 2015, 08:35:49 AM

Same as mine then; you might find it needs support when all the flowers start to open.
I was reading yesterday that the best flowering in the wild is just after a fire and then it becomes less prolific...... Makes me wonder whether mine will flower again this year.

Title: Re: Disa atricapilla
Post by: fredg on June 25, 2015, 04:07:15 PM

Betterer and betterer was the cry  ;D

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Title: Re: Disa atricapilla
Post by: Maggi Young on June 25, 2015, 04:09:59 PM

My word! It really is a cracker, isn't it?  All those colours- carved from wax it seems!!

Title: Re: Disa atricapilla
Post by: fredg on June 28, 2015, 04:16:15 PM

Yin maer

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Title: Re: Disa atricapilla
Post by: fredg on July 06, 2015, 11:30:53 AM

Jiist ra yin maer tae gaen

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Title: Re: Disa atricapilla
Post by: WimB on July 06, 2015, 07:17:50 PM

Quote from: fredg on July 06, 2015, 11:30:53 AM

Jiist ra yin maer tae gaen

Wonderful and whatever you're writing it looks a bit like West-Flemish (my native dialect)... Just one more to go?? - In W-Flemish: Juste moe ien meir te goan

Title: Re: Disa atricapilla
Post by: fredg on July 08, 2015, 08:03:57 AM

Spot on WimB it's a Scottish dialect very like Dutch/Flemish.

Just the one more to go

Title: Re: Disa atricapilla
Post by: fredg on July 15, 2015, 05:55:09 PM

Full house, all seven flowers.

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Title: Re: Disa atricapilla
Post by: fredg on July 27, 2015, 12:02:24 PM

41 days after the first flower opened it's still looking good. What has happened since the last flower opened is that the flowers have begun to separate vertically.

Please excuse image quality, it's windy out there (and the spiderlings have been busy).
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Now I need to ask how I'm supposed to give it a dry late spring/summer rest when it's in full flower and seed production?

Title: Re: Disa atricapilla
Post by: Roma on July 27, 2015, 12:26:44 PM

Plants don't read the books or not the same ones we do