Donate Now
and become
Forum Supporter.
Many perks!
<...more...>
|
01-18-2012, 08:20 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2007
Zone: 7a
Location: Southwest of Germany
Posts: 2,064
|
|
Acineta densa
For outdoors or a spacy greenhouse. Intermediate. Flowered last october, flowers lasted 10 days. Grown in a plastic container with holes in the buttom and not in a basket due to drier conditions, to keep the roots moist in summer.
|
|
Post Thanks / Like - 7 Likes
|
|
|
|
|
01-18-2012, 11:54 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2007
Zone: 7a
Location: Reno, NV
Posts: 7,362
|
|
Haven't seen this one before. Cool.
Kim
|
01-18-2012, 11:52 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2008
Zone: 9a
Location: Nor Cal
Posts: 26,634
|
|
Very cool!  |
01-19-2012, 12:07 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 1,467
|
|
euplusia - very nice, not one that we see in the States that often. I wil have to keep my eyes open next weekend at the Tamiami International Orchid Festival, There will be a few S American vendors, yay!!!
|
01-19-2012, 02:44 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2007
Zone: 7a
Location: Southwest of Germany
Posts: 2,064
|
|
Good luck, glengary54. Itīs easy to grow. Itīs a common plant at our vendors, but due to itīs size not popular in orchid lovers collections.
|
01-19-2012, 03:58 PM
|
 |
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2011
Zone: 7b
Location: Manhattan, NY
Age: 40
Posts: 8,411
|
|
That is a magnificent show of blooms. I just wish I have a bigger apartment to put that plant in...
|
01-19-2012, 05:10 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Zone: 5a
Location: fishers, indiana
Age: 57
Posts: 3,044
|
|
Fantastic blooms. What is the fragrance like?
Steve
|
01-19-2012, 08:58 PM
|
 |
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2007
Zone: 8b
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Age: 44
Posts: 10,312
|
|
Acineta is definitely one of those genera that is under represented here in the US. I'm also curious about the scent....
|
01-20-2012, 08:37 PM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2010
Zone: 10a
Location: Miami Beach, Florida
Posts: 336
|
|
Wowwww!! Really beautiful and what a nice greenhouse in the background!  |
02-02-2012, 07:57 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2007
Zone: 7a
Location: Southwest of Germany
Posts: 2,064
|
|
Thanks all for your nice comments.
I noticed only a faint sweet pleasant scent (some people say like vanilla) in the morning. To my human nose it was not a prominent feature, that I kept in mind. I had exspected a more intense fragrance. But I am sure that the bees can smell the special perfume of these flowers much better, as they come a long way and go crazy to reach the osmophores behind behind the horn on the mesochil. There is a good pic of a cut lip G.Gerlach on the orchidspecies.com website.
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 03:51 PM.
|
Linear Mode
