Info on bulbo sumatranum

[Psyguy10]

i'm thinking of getting bulbo sumatranum but i can't find a lot of info on it, i would love a little help ( and this would be one of my first bulbos: which i don't know if thats a good one to start with... )

[Tsuchibuta]

According to Jay Pfal's site "Found in Sumatra as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte that requires shade, good drainage and high humidity" It looks alot like lobbi and i expect it will grow much the same.. pretty easy much like a Phal except can take a bit more light. I my experience bulbos are one of the easiest to grow, my experience says tells me that they don't like their roots disturbed much, and some species with smaller blooms i've rotted alot of the spikes before they matured. But most of the them grow like weeds once they find a happy spot.

[Psyguy10]

Thank you tsuchibuta! sounds like i can get it! hehehe i was worried it was very diffilcult... sumatranum here i come!

[cb977]

Hi Matt

Orchidwiz says:
Lighting: 1500-2000 fc
Temps: days average 75-79 / nights average 58-60
Humidity: 75-80%

The accepted name for this is now Bulb lobbii...so when you asked me last week if I have Bulb lobbii and I said no...I was wrong!

[Mike O'C]

Originally Posted by cb977

Hi Matt

Orchidwiz says:
Lighting: 1500-2000 fc
Temps: days average 75-79 / nights average 58-60
Humidity: 75-80%

The accepted name for this is now Bulb lobbii...so when you asked me last week if I have Bulb lobbii and I said no...I was wrong!

Hi Susanne. Not doubting you but am curious to know where you read that the new name for Bulbophyllum sumatrana was Bulbophyllum lobbii?

[cb977]

When researching a species in Orchidwiz, it comes up with the name you search for and then gives you what the newly accepted name for that species is, if there have been any changes.

For Bulb sumatranum it says:
Bulb lobbii is accepted species for Bulb sumatranum.

There is also an option to look up any names the plant is known by...and sumatranum has 6 versions along with a few versions of lobbii.

lobbii is the most current accepted name for this one

[Tindomul]

Hi all,

Sue that is news to me too. Ahhh the perks of Orchidwiz.

Anyway, my reference has it listed still as B. sumatranum and says that it actually has nothing in common with B. lobbii other than being members of the same section, Sestochilos. Cultivation should be in a slightly shaded intermediate temperature (60-75) with good drainage in the pots and high humidity especially if mounted. - Emily S. Siegerist Bulbophyllums and Their Allies a Grower's Guide.

[cb977]

Yup...the "powers that be" have a thing about changing names and separating or grouping different plants together. I think they do it just to keep us on our toes

[Tindomul]

OK, now I am daydreaming but it would be nice if some day I became a "power that be" and lumped everything back to the way it was,

[Mike O'C]

Originally Posted by Tindomul

Hi all,

Sue that is news to me too. Ahhh the perks of Orchidwiz.

Anyway, my reference has it listed still as B. sumatranum and says that it actually has nothing in common with B. lobbii other than being members of the same section, Sestochilos. Cultivation should be in a slightly shaded intermediate temperature (60-75) with good drainage in the pots and high humidity especially if mounted. - Emily S. Siegerist Bulbophyllums and Their Allies a Grower's Guide.

Thanks Sue and Tindomul for the info and comments. I agree that it does not have much in common with Bulbophyllum lobbii. Perhaps better than Orchidwiz (not knocking it) would be to goo to the site of ipni.org (preceed this with www.) This is the international plant name index and see what they say. What you both are forgetting is that taxonomists are always looking to the future and creating jobs for future taxonomists
The next generation of taxonomists will come along and change them again! Look at what is happening with Laelias