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Originally Posted by Ray
Fabulous, but all cold-growers, so won't do well here.
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No so.
Amitostigma lepidum is from South Japan, and mine is actively growing now. This one is an odd winter growing summer dormant species.
A. keiskei can take some cold temp maybe down to zone 7a or b range.
Somebody contacted me last spring how I grew these. I casually asked him how he got them. He wrote his friend gave them. Ok. Didn't quite feel like responding quick, so I let it slide. Another inquiry. I was curious who he was, and found he had some awards on an orchid species from the same country. I have a huge problem with people messing with clonal names that have been long accepted. So I told him I did not feel like giving the info. because what he did was right. Basically, he got upset, and wrote me that I should not be an AOS judge if I did not want to help another judge.
Fast forward. I had some
Bletilla, and somebody won the auction. His name looked familiar. I Googled and found that was the guy. I also found his FB, and he had pictures of
A. keiskei and something else that was mislabeled. I notified this guy that we should cancel the transaction.
Something nagged me, so I checked his eBay feedback. He had a whole bunch of feedback from China and Thai vendors that send plants w/o documents. And guess what? He had feedback from a Hong Kong vendor that sends these orchids w/o paper work. Last time when I check, he even had a feedback from a Chinese vendor that were selling presumably wild collected
Paph. rothschildianum and
Paph. virens. Amazing.
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