Epidendrum Bifalce Species - Orchid Board

kindrag23 · #1 10-12-2013, 10:50 PM

Wahoo! I won this epi. on ebay and was the first one that I have never seen and I won! Should look great with my epidendrum anntennatum, and epi. stanforme! the pictures are of the one that the vendor put up.

It should be about 21 inches tall 5 divisions on the plant. Does anybody know anything about this plant. I tried to google never can know what I am actually getting is truthful or not.

I know the care instructions will remain pretty much exactly like the others just general wonder about where it was from.

kindrag23 · #2 10-12-2013, 10:51 PM

Okay here is what the blooms should look like this is really what caught my attention.

TOMMYMIAMI · #3 10-12-2013, 11:01 PM

It's hot to worm growing, so pretty much you should never expose to any low temps. It will be large plant, blooms in summer. Not much info to be found, but I think it is called now Epidendrum atacaziocum, so maybe you should try to look for the care under that name.

kindrag23 · #4 10-12-2013, 11:07 PM

Oh I figured it would be the same as my gramms and other epi. i was wondering where it came from lol. But thank you for the new name will google it. See if I can dig up where they originate from.

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Well looks like this is a rare plant.

heres what i found

American Orchid Society Pacific South Judging Region Provisional Awards

sounds like a ton of blooms 100 per branch how cool.

TOMMYMIAMI · #5 10-12-2013, 11:09 PM

Found in Ecuador or Peru, elevation 380-1800 meters

kindrag23 · #6 10-12-2013, 11:16 PM

Fabulous thanks, How odd you can type in something like catasetum and get all kinds of info this one not so much.

TOMMYMIAMI · #7 10-12-2013, 11:50 PM

Some orchids are very common, therefor lot of info, the ones that are more unusual have not so much info online, and you must really dig in, or follow the similar orchid culture.

Kevin_PR · #8 10-13-2013, 02:06 AM

That is beautiful good buy. Put me on the keiki list if it ever produces any

I have never heard of Epidendrum antennatum and it does not show on a google search. Are you sure its not Dendrobium antennatum?

reliablefool · #9 10-13-2013, 11:26 AM

Haha, I had been watching this because I recently acquired one of these. No idea how to grow it since I was dumb and didn't ask the seller. Every time I look at this ebay seller's page, I just think about how I did not look through the Ecuagenera booth well enough at the last show I attended...I'm fairly certain that's where most of his "recent imports" are from. From what I can tell, the prices at their booth were cheaper than their website, but I only looked at a few plants. Heh.

Anyway, hopefully I can offer you some advice if mine ever gets out of the limbo it is in. I'm hoping it's growing new roots and not just slowly dying

kindrag23 · #10 10-13-2013, 02:07 PM

I will double check my tag. But I swear it says epi.

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Originally Posted by reliablefool

Haha, I had been watching this because I recently acquired one of these. No idea how to grow it since I was dumb and didn't ask the seller. Every time I look at this ebay seller's page, I just think about how I did not look through the Ecuagenera booth well enough at the last show I attended...I'm fairly certain that's where most of his "recent imports" are from. From what I can tell, the prices at their booth were cheaper than their website, but I only looked at a few plants. Heh.

Anyway, hopefully I can offer you some advice if mine ever gets out of the limbo it is in. I'm hoping it's growing new roots and not just slowly dying

I used weekly seaweed on my den anntenatum (@ Kevin_Pr you were right. Dont write an 8 page paper tthen type names lol!) and it is shooting 10 new roots. So fingers crossed.it started at 19.99 but someone else bid and I had to out bid them. But we shall work on this together!!!lol