The "Bat" Lepanthes

[ronaldhanko]

Nice plant and good photos, too.

[vraev]

Originally Posted by Bud

YEEEY ! I have a lady friend from Sta Rosa, CA whos got a large specimen(see pic) of this orchid and promised to mount for me several mature blooming sized bulbs...hopefully I can grow it and well and make it bloom.
Ron, I will have to ask your expert opinion on this and will be forever grateful...

Spectacular! I tried getting this species...but ecuagenera don't have it available for sale yet.

Btw...thats a humungous specimen. What does she grow it on? bark? epiweb? Whats the secret for monster lepanthes like that?

[Bud]

She has it mounted on a grape stump and it just took years of patience and caring to grow that big...hopefully my plant which is just a tiny part of that huge ball will also grow as magnificent specimen...maybe in 10 years LOLZ

[vraev]

wow!! So technically you never need to replace mounts for lepanthes? They can just grow forever on the same piece of wood?

I soo want to get this lepanthes...still waiting for ecuagenera to stock it again

[isurus79]

What a cool looking flower!! I can definitely see the bat too. It looks like it is about to take off flying!!

[ronaldhanko]

Thanks for looking, Steve.