Anacheilium cochleatum
 

Wonderful, is this the same thing as Encyclia cochleata, it looks very like mine.

Mine had a lot of sticky sap/dew coming out by the flowers, is that normal for these?

My hubby love these. He puts up with my hobby very well and never really complains, but he actually said to me a couple of days ago "I hope you get that one with the squid shaped flowers to bloom again, I really like that". I really hope I do as well!

Way cool,I love these flowers,like a little jellyfish or something :)good growing!

Thanks guys. I have not been able to stop this one from blooming. Its in regular bark charcoal orchid mix, under those bright lights, lots of T5's. It really is a blooming machine. Its not very humid at all there and temperatures remain around 75 or so year round. Also I think this one has gone by a few names, Anacheilium, Prostecha, Encyclia, and I don't know which one is currently accepted.[/FONT]

Cool. how many T5s?

Prosthechea is official for RHS. Anacheilium is preferred by some other taxonomists. Some still cling to Encyclia. Epidendrum would really be old school. Do you prefer to lump, split, or live in the past?

I'm going to update the tag on this one then. I've heard the Prosthechea name before but did not realise it was now the RHS accepted one (I thought that was the older name).

Whatever it's called I love them. Mine is sitting on a table beside the stairs at home and I love looking down on it over the banister as I walk down the stairs.

With a change to Prosthechea, the following name is also changed to Cochleata and no longer cochleatum.

probably because Prostechea is feminine while Epidendrum must be neutral or masculine.

Hmm.. well mine was labeld as Encyclia cochleata so the second part had already been changed it seems. :dunno:

These names get so confusing. I understand why they get changed but it really confuses people like me.

I'm with you Rosie, gawd I wish they'd stop. Its a whole hobby just to try and keep up with the name changes. I pretty much just about ignore it now and enjoy the hobby without all the confusion :)

Tin, this is one of my favies, I love it!! :D
These guys are very cool, they can rebloom of the older spikes even years down the road.
I love their scents, they always seem to be something eh?

:D

Yup Tin thats pretty much the way mine worked for the first few years. I've had it for about 6 years now and its only in the last 1-1/2 it began doing this. Just hang on to it ... you'll probably see this to :)

I've seen these re-bloom as mentioned above, but I've also seen keikis form at the base and first node of old spikes, so definitely don't rush to cut back old spikes.

Wow I didn't know that it could keiki from old spikes. Thanks for letting us know. What a cool orchid!!

Wow, great to know about the re-blooming and the keikis. I'll definately be leaving the spikes on mine then.