Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: ashley on February 17, 2025, 02:31:53 PM
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These Sophronitis (now Cattleya) are hardly relevant to rock gardening in temperate climes, but grow on moss-covered rocks and trees at altitude in SE Brazil.
Apart from their intense colour, the tepals of S. mantiqueirae have a lovely crystalline quality rather like Nerine sarniensis that I find hard to photograph.
In any case they brighten up dull winter weather here.
Sophronitis (Cattleya) mantiqueirae
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Sophronitis (Cattleya) wittigiana
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Sophronitis (Cattleya) pygmaea, a young plant flowering for the first time.
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Beautiful flowers, do you have to heat during winter?
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These live in the house year round, but in good light and a cool room with temperature usually in the range 10-20°C.
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I have a few Phalaenopsis. The leaves have white spots on both sides. Is this a disease or a watering problem. I have wiped the leaves with a paper towel with white vinegar but the spots have returned. The "spots" look like wooly aphids but no insects seen. Any suggestions welcome.
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Try wiping a trial leaf with Neem Oil.
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Thanks Jeff, I,ll give it a try.
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Flowering now:
Paphiopedilum gratrixianum christensonianum
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Paphiopedilum charlesworthii
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Ashley, true gratrixianum has leaves up to 6 cm broad and was only rediscovered recently. Your plant, the"false" gratrixianum, has been renamed christensonianum.
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Thanks Herbert; label corrected.
Leaves on this plant are only about 2.5 cm wide.