Since I was doing some work on the plant stand I snagged a couple of pics.
Pic one is a shot of the leaves of the
Macodes petola whose flower you saw earlier. Sadly the spikes are spent, and the one you see the base of in the picture I removed after the shot was taken. I didn't bother to try and pollinate the flowers as the plant was outside of a vivarium so between the low humidity and occasional drying out I knew even if I could, the seeds wouldn't make it until they were ripe. In fact drying out caused the spikes to die early. The plant is just finishing up quarantine and will be moved into a terrarium in about a week.
Second pic is the lovely lemon yellow blooms of
Anoectochilus chapaensis! I kept waiting for the labellums to flair like in the L. d x A. f hybrid I showed photos of before, then realized I was being dumb because they don't do that!
The flowers are a bit of an odd duck in more ways than one!
Third pic is of the leaves... a gorgeous contrast to the sharp yellow flowers on the deep red spike! The leaves are velvety black with a crisp white edge, and veins that are salmon red/orange in the middle fading into a deep red on the outside. I haven't managed to learn my camera well enough to capture this, but that being said this pic shows their color better than many you see when googling this plant!
The last pic is
Anoectochilus roxburghii 'India' - probably my favorite. This guy is a recovering plant so these are actually small juvenile leaves.
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