Lepanthes telipogoniflora

[Dirtmonkey]

This is a memorial post - the plant was left with a plantsitter for several months and unfortunately died. Ironically it was my lowest-care orchid by far. All I did was leave it off to the side of a fluorescent light stand and watch it bloom; which it did, constantly. I spritzed water in there maybe once every couple months, and very weakly fertilized once in a year. I will definitely replace it soon!

It came from Ecuagenera mounted on a tiny square of epi-web. I put pieces of bark around it and a few pieces of my favorite tiny moss which covered the bark slowly. I sure miss the little thing.

Edit- adding a close-up showing the plant and that moss. The brownish fuzz is the same plant as the moss. First it spreads around like fuzzy olive-green algae, then pops up the little upright mosses after being established for a while. Very cool. I hope I can find some again in the old container and culture more of it. I found the moss originally on a Sinningia tuber a friend brought up from a field trip to either Brazil or Costa Rica... I'll have to ask where it came from again (note to self: check that friend's plants for it, too).

Vincent