My guess is that it's just a reference to where this species is found.

Agree. Common reference to the habitat.

Amesiella monticola (project 16 [main] - spring 2015)
 

Well I don't know the specifics of my growing environment such as temp and humidity. I don't have a temp or humidity reader in my growing spaces, but this one grows under a light with all my other little orchids and seedlings. I grow this in my bedroom bc the sun just floods this room in the morning for hours and it's growing space is set in the corner of the room where it never gets cold. The amesiella monticola is in the front row with the big white tag, where it sits right under the light. I checked it just now and I believe it has a spike. I don't have a nice camera, just my iPhone so I hope you can see it clearly. This has to be one of the smallest blooming sized orchids I own :)

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Are you sure it's not a root? It looks good however. I would like to see something on mine as it is just setting there, but at least it's not turning yellow.

I can't be 100% positive that it's a root or a spike 😁 it has the mitten shape....and I swear it grew in the time I took this picture lol. It seems to have gotten bigger 😜 I will post another pic next week and see for sure what we have.

I've got a new leaf coming in!:banana:
I'm also extremely proud to report that this is the first orchid that hasn't lost all it's existing roots to my "care". In fact, all of its roots still look great! Mine came from Firstrays in a net pot with sphag, I was going to mount it but decided to ask Ray for watering advice first because I couldn't figure out how to water it without getting the moss soaking wet. He advised setting it in a shallow dish of water and letting it wick up (amazing how the obvious eludes me lol), unbelievably (because I AM a serial root murderer), it's doing GREAT! :biggrin:

Great Judith, I am going to take Ray's advice as well and use the tray with shallow water. I don't want to water it from the top and rot out my potential spike :)

Just to clarify, it's not supposed to stay sitting in water, just be placed in a shallow container of water long enough for a small amount to wick up and moisten the sphag :)

Mine continues in suspended animation for now... ;)

I consider anything but death a win :biggrin: