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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Michael on March 10, 2008, 09:44:25 PM

Title: Some tropicals
Post by: Michael on March 10, 2008, 09:44:25 PM: Hi friends!

I know this is mainly a bulb-alpine plant forum, but i would like to show you a few of the plants that i have currently in bloom. I also would like to thanks you all about posting those magnificent pictures of the temperate plants you grow, most of them completely unknown to me and not less spectacular than the tropicals, on the contrary, i think i find some hady particularly beautifull!!!

These pictures were taken last sunday:

Nepenthes ampullaria "Cantley's red"
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6265.jpg)
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6263.jpg)

Nepenthes aristolochioides
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6250.jpg)

Tolumnia
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6245.jpg)

Coelogyne cristata
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6226.jpg)
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6200.jpg)

Freesia
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6225.jpg)
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6221.jpg)

Masdevallia strobelii
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6137.jpg)
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6136.jpg)
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6113.jpg)

Kohleria
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6162.jpg)
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6156.jpg)
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6153.jpg)

Rhynchostylis gigantea
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_5983.jpg)
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_5989.jpg)
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_5964.jpg)

Scenecio petasitis
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6177.jpg)

Laelia harpophylla
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6213.jpg)

Bauhinia variegata (It's a tree that flowers very small (3 years from seed) and grows very well in a pot ;D )
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6141.jpg)(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6140.jpg)

Paphiopedilum insigne
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_5316.jpg)

Beloperone guttata
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_6155.jpg)

Psychopsis papilio
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_5307.jpg)
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_5291.jpg)(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/albertorodriguez_01/Michael/IMG_5285.jpg)

Regards to all
Michael
Title: Re: Some tropicals
Post by: Maggi Young on March 10, 2008, 10:21:48 PM: What an exciting collection! I have to single out the Masdevallia.... look at that hairy little "face"... adorable! Great Nepenthes, too, such interesting plants.
Title: Re: Some tropicals
Post by: Paul T on March 10, 2008, 11:56:01 PM: Great orchids mike!! Captured beautifully in the pics too!!
Title: Re: Some tropicals
Post by: Michael on March 11, 2008, 01:55:49 PM: Hi again, thanks for the comments.

Maggi in the picture we cannot see, but the Masdevallia is even more pretty (in my opinion), because it has glandular heads instead of the aparent hairs. Check this picture:

http://www.orchidphotos.org/images/orchids/speciesV2/Masdevallia/masdevalliastrobelii2_233.html

;)
Title: Re: Some tropicals
Post by: Maggi Young on March 11, 2008, 02:22:59 PM: Quote
Maggi in the picture we cannot see, but the Masdevallia is even more pretty (in my opinion), because it has glandular heads instead of the aparent hairs. Check this picture:

http://www.orchidphotos.org/images/orchids/speciesV2/Masdevallia/masdevalliastrobelii2_233.html
Oh, Yes! That is super!
Title: Re: Some tropicals
Post by: Carlo on March 11, 2008, 02:26:27 PM: I've grown over 150 species from the genus Masdevallia and they all have something to recommend themselves. It's part of the subtribe Pleurothallidinae which was a specialty of mine for many years (over 2000 plants under lights in a basement)...
Title: Re: Some tropicals
Post by: Maggi Young on March 11, 2008, 02:40:56 PM: Quote
over 2000 plants under lights in a basement)...
And you wonder why the police visit so regularly ?? ::)

I've never had too much success with Masdevallias....... my east facing kitchen window... which is where you have to live if you are an orchid in this house.......does not seem to suit them.... so they end up being given away to friends who will be nicer to them :-[
One thing I know about them for sure: if you buy one in flower, the flower stem will be broken before you leave the car park to drive home :( :'( :P
Title: Re: Some tropicals
Post by: Anthony Darby on March 11, 2008, 03:01:25 PM: Brightened a traumatic afternoon (second year class just left - half are just space cadets!). Thanks. I like that wee Nepenthes. Better than the hybrid ones you see in garden centres. When I get my orchid cabinet working (once the builders have vacated my ~~garage~~ workshop) I'll get some of these. I have a lovely Vanda (bit like 'rob's' ady) in a huge glass container but it will need more heat and light to get it to flower again (suggestions on a ten pound note to my home address please). I love those gesnerids too. I brought a lovely orange one back from Trinida but it died. More heat, light and water and plenty of fungicide needed to prevent damping off?
Title: Re: Some tropicals
Post by: Michael on March 11, 2008, 08:22:05 PM: Wow 2000 plants is something i cannot even imagine Carlo! I had problems with the cold growing ones, and i used to put them inside the refrigerator each night, to cool them down enough, and since then they started growing well for me. Now i have found a cool spot to grow them and they are doing well. But i just grow 3 for now: Masd. strobelii, M. caesia and M. norops. If they keep growing fine, i am looking forward to try some more.

Adarby, i never have damping off problems, because i let the soil dry and only water again when the leaves start to wilt. Was your orange gesneriad tuberous?
Title: Re: Some tropicals
Post by: Andrew on March 12, 2008, 04:32:14 PM: Have the pictures disappeared or is it me ??
Title: Re: Some tropicals
Post by: Maggi Young on March 12, 2008, 07:45:19 PM: The pix are all there for me, Andrew! Try a "refresh" of the page, perhaps they got "stuck" !!! ;D
Title: Re: Some tropicals
Post by: Iturraran on March 29, 2008, 12:45:45 AM: The Freesia, Bauhinia, Senecio and Beloperone we can grow outdoors here, and had a Coelogyne cristata doing well outside for some years too :)