Ever Mounted An Orchid on a Skull?

[My Green Pets]

Curious if these epiphytes will attach to bones? Anyone tried? Could be *awesome*

[blackvine]

Don't know, but sounds pretty cool! Uh . . . do you ask because you have a stray skull?? Wow!

[My Green Pets]

Well I don't have any HUMAN skulls lying around, but big livestock skulls aren't too hard to come by.

I actually found an online orchid shop last night that sells resin skulls specifically for mounting orchids! Just google 'mount orchid on a skull' and you will find it.

[Ray]

I take the opposite view, leaning toward looking more natural, which is why I prefer cork oak bark for mounting.


Ray Barkalow
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[lambelkip]

Read the story of the about the rediscovery of Dendrobium schröderianum in The Woodlands Orchids by Frederick Boyle. You'll find that orchids do in fact grow very well on bone.

[My Green Pets]

Thanks for that link, what a fascinating read!

[Laserbeak]

My dad was a physician and had a real human skull in his study and looked at it before he did surgeries on the face. I don't know what happened to it after he died. I think you can order them from scientific supply companies like Carolina Biological, but to get a genuine human skeleton you may need to have some credentials. They make simulated ones out of ground animal bones I think though.

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The strangest skull I ever saw was in a Catholic church in Spain though. It had a candle right on its cap and a little message at the bottom that said "One day I looked like you and someday you'll look like me."

[Lani]

I have a friend who has 2 cow skulls she has mounted with orchids. I think she stuffed some moss into the brain cavity and has them planted with a common orange epidendrum and the "dove" orchid (Dendrobium crenutatum?). There is also button orchid (Dischidia nummularia?) growing/hanging off them. She had a phalaenopsis growing out one of the eye sockets for a while but it didn't get enough attention and threw in the towel. The rest are currently thriving on neglect

[catherinecarney]

Thank you lambelkip! Fascinating read. I hope to make time to read the rest of the book!

Catherine

[Subrosa]

Originally Posted by Lani

I have a friend who has 2 cow skulls she has mounted with orchids. I think she stuffed some moss into the brain cavity and has them planted with a common orange epidendrum and the "dove" orchid (Dendrobium crenutatum?). There is also button orchid (Dischidia nummularia?) growing/hanging off them. She had a phalaenopsis growing out one of the eye sockets for a while but it didn't get enough attention and threw in the towel. The rest are currently thriving on neglect

Dischidia is not a genus of orchids.