I found this on my doorstep...
 

Another gift from a neighbor who used to throw all his going-out-of-bloom orchids in the trash.

Unfortunately most are NOIDs, this is some huge Brassia or something:

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Any ideas?

Also excuse my messy apartment, usually the plants are small enough I can hide it :biggrin:

Lucky you! All we seem to get is stray kitties :) It could be Brassidium Fly Away 'Miami', although maybe not possible to tell for sure. Mine has been in bloom for some time and now has another spike ready to bloom so it is the season for it and the plant looks very similar.

Yes, very lucky to have such neighbors. :) No idea on the plant ID though.

Wow....that is so awesome you get random gifts of orchids...and your neighbor encourages your orchiditis!! Lucky you!

It looks like a Grammatophyllum than a Brassidum.

Congrats on preying on the loss of others.:rofl:

Nice gift

I would love neighbors like this! Great gift

I have found yummy vegetables at my door step. Maybe I should move to a different neighborhood in hopes of getting orchids. :)

I thought the title was a joke, the lies we tell to justify bringing another plant into the family :p

But cool that's how it works for you! Congrats and have fun.

Congratulations! No idea on the ID, however, I sincerely hope the neighbors don't start dropping their unwanted orchids on my doorstep! I am desperately trying to lighten my benches to make room for new Pleurothallids... I have a lady at work that wants to give me her Phal., she cornered me today. How can you say no?

It's amazing how many people in New York buy orchids and treat them like cut flowers, just throwing them away when the flowers die.

Can you take a pic of the less destroyed flower? Just to have an idea

I too think it is a Gramm....such nice shiny leaves....Jean

Yes, by the shape of the bulb and leaves = grammatophyllum; cymbidium family.

Well watered and fertilized in summer, and warm 65+ during winter if you are able.

All the light possible.

It easily drops leaves after 18 months/two years; and loses the pseudobulbs often too. They actually rot without hurting the rest of the plant (just so you don't unnecessarily get anxious).

They also have two types of roots -- downward and upward -- by nature.

Have fun.

Rex

Grammatophyllum looks right! Thanks guys, I would have never figured that out on my own, I never even heard of it before!

Glad someone was able to help with I.D. I honestly didn't think this was Oncidium alliance at all, but didn't know what it might be.

I just hope it's not the one that grows to weigh tons. It would be like "Little Shop of Horrors" in here!

Let's hope it is G. scriptum and its variants.
They are sold as pot plants. The blossoms are yellow with brown markings ("scripts"). There is a variety with only the yellow flowers = var citrine, or something like that.

Rex

The flowers were all but dead when I got the plant, but from what I could make out they would not have been inconsistent with this description.