Project Phoenix

[Akhenaten]

Corybas is still blooming, 25 days. And now the flower has a characteristic classic look. Plants without flowers prepare for hibernation.

[WaterWitchin]

Are you saying the bloom on this has lasted for 23 days? If so, that's downright amazing for such a teeny little thing. Seeing all these little blooms, up close and personal with your talented magnification of them, is a real treasure. I surely would never see them otherwise. :

[Akhenaten]

Yes it began to bloom on December 16th. Blooming for 26 days

[WaterWitchin]

I'd gone back and looked at the prior picture of it in December. It sure took its sweet time unfolding!

[Akhenaten]

Originally Posted by WaterWitchin

It sure took its sweet time unfolding!

It blooms for an unexpectedly long time. The flower is not very small, about half an inch, and with a mustache-antennas, probably 2 inches. I also have the flowering of the Spanish Grand Don Escobar - Lepanthes escobariana. The flower is large, probably larger than telipogonioflora. I'll get around to taking a photo tomorrow.

[Akhenaten]

Lepanthes escobarina is 4 times larger than the telipogonioflora in terms of foliage. And the flower is probably one and a half times larger. Very solid peduncle. Revolving bloom. There is also a substantial distance between the flowers. The flowers are pale, and this specimen has an orange stripe in the form of a wide wedge, the sepals are fused.

[Akhenaten]

My first Phragmipedium Phragmipedium hybrid, but I see in it pure Phragmipedium pearcei



Very big flower



And Cattleya luteola

[WaterWitchin]

First Phrag!?! Why in the world have you been waiting so long? Blooms too scary big for ya?

[Roberta]

A nice compact Phrag! Now, perhaps you should search for Phrag schlimii. Small and very cute. C. luteola is charming.

[Akhenaten]

Thank you, dear Colleagues
Yeah, too huge flower Although I like big flowers, actually. I don't have much room for frags. WaterWitchin, specifically, this frag grows in a basin with waste water, where water from pots flows. It was the only empty place without an orchids. I found a frag that grows in a swamp and planted it in a long cymbidium pot.
Roberta I already have a Phrag. bessae, and his hybrid with comtad Kovach it is Herr Fritz Schomburg from Orchid Inn. This vendor has nice moon like shape of Fritz. I'll think about Phrag schlimii aimingly.