anguloa xruckerii - Orchid Board

palm521 · #1 11-07-2013, 08:02 PM

natural hybrid from Venezuela and Colombia, one of those really nice Tulip Orchid. flower is quite big as well.

got this plant a few months back when i visited ecuador,

it was supposed to deliver another spike, but the plant fell to the floor and the second spike got aborted.

smells good.

i cant tell if it is hard or easy to grow, as it is my first ever Anguloa Ruckerii. but i think it should not be harder than clowesii.

WhiteRabbit · #2 11-07-2013, 09:16 PM

Cool!

nikkik · #3 11-07-2013, 09:32 PM

Very neat, it does remind me of a tulip.

TOMMYMIAMI · #4 11-07-2013, 10:23 PM

It really looks like the tulip. Does it open more or this is it? Very cute!

palm521 · #5 11-07-2013, 10:38 PM

thanks for the comments,

Tommy this is it. i dont think it will open more.

Antonio.

tuvoc · #6 11-08-2013, 11:45 AM

Super cool. Mine bloomed for the first time last year, and totally hooked me. I love it.

Kim

euplusia · #7 11-08-2013, 12:53 PM

Very nice plant, and congratulations for your first flower. Your country should provide a good climate for growing Anguloas in areas of higher elevation. Given proper conditions it can be very floriferous.

Ecuagenera has this plant listed as xruckeri, but I doubt this. The coloration is too dark for xruckeri, and the flower is so close to hohenlohii, that I suppose it is in fact hohenlohii. I told this to Alex Portilla. I have bought a similar plant from ecuagenera and posted both xruckeri and hohenlohii in this forum.