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06-18-2009, 05:08 AM
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Help! Help! This Dendro has no leaves.
Help! Help! This Dendro has no leaves, no pseudobulbs ... nothing but roots. And yet its blooming.
This dendrophylax ... she's a funny lass.
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06-18-2009, 01:16 PM
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That is so cool!
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06-18-2009, 02:25 PM
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Very nice, thanks for posting.
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06-18-2009, 04:26 PM
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Wow, yours looks great! Ive got 2 of these guys and they bloomed last fall. How bright do you grow yours? One of mine does well with high light and the other can't stand it.
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06-18-2009, 10:15 PM
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For those of you who don't know what the photo is, it's NOT a dendrobium, it's a dendrophylax, one of the leafless orchids. It has no leaves; the plant photosynthesizes through its considerable roots. The plant sends out flower stalks in mid to late spring. From the intersection of the roots, the plant also sends out long thin wiry appendages which produce keikis ... more rootless plantlets.
Plants should be hung on wire hooks, or draped over a porous mount like tree fern. Roots don't seem to stick to many surfaces ... instead they wedge into cracks and nooks. They will wedge and attach to tree fern chunks.
Grow them in phal light and because they are not potted in any medium, they should be watered frequently and very weak fertitizer applied as a folior spray (I mean rootior spray)
OK lesson over.
Everyone Ooohs! & Ahhhs! over the photo.
But no one even cracks a smile or even groans over my little joke about my Dendrophylax funalis.
Geeeez ... what a tough audience!
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06-18-2009, 10:36 PM
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Great plant, Catwalker! Well I missed your funny because I didn't know about that plant. We live and learn hopefully!
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06-19-2009, 04:32 PM
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Wow, really cool, never seen anything like that before.
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06-19-2009, 06:22 PM
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Hi catwalker
I'm 'new' to this species. If I have understood right It's a Dendrophylax funalis? I believe it is supposed to be scented? have you detected any scent yet?
Thank you for posting
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06-20-2009, 01:34 AM
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No sense. There is nothing about this plant that makes sense. It has no canes, no leaves and it blooms from the roots. No sense at all. I don't recall any smell either.
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06-20-2009, 01:53 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by catwalker808
No sense. There is nothing about this plant that makes sense. It has no canes, no leaves and it blooms from the roots. No sense at all. I don't recall any smell either.
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You lost me here. The flower should be fragrant and the flower spike doesn't come from the roots. |
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