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Originally Posted by King_of_orchid_growing:)

Your mystery plant looks like a Liparis. Some Liparis are unifoliar and have heart shaped leaves.

don't think so I took out the plant and it had a tuber like cynorkis do

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What does the tuberoid look like?

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kind of like a habenaria medusa tuberoid, light brown with white hairs all over, roots coming out at the top

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Is it shaped like a potato? Or is it shaped like a ginseng or mandrake root?

[disalover]

similar to this

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Some of the plants that are currently in the genus Liparis do not have the same characteristics as each other. It doesn't look like a tuberoid from a Cynorkis, (I could be wrong). The tuberoids on the two species of Cynorkis I've grown so far have the characteristics of looking like hairy mandrake or ginseng roots. The leaves on the 2 Cynorkis species I've grown also look different from yours. From what I've also seen of Cynorkis gibbosa and Cynorkis villosa, all 4 of these species have elongated leaves, not heart shaped ones.

If I'm not mistaken, some Liparis are deciduous and are likely to have tuberoids. I think it could even be a certain kind of Malaxis.

Do you know what other terrestrial orchids the seller was growing?

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he grows many rare and common varieties. I bought a cynorkis fastigiata at him with the same leaf shape. I guess well just have to wait and see when it blooms