Neolehmannia porpax
 

Cute little thing! It was outgrowing the cork mount it was on, so I just planted the whole thing, mount and all, inside a 4" plastic basket. Now it's growing over and out of the holes of the basket. Flowers have an odd waxy texture. Bright light, watered regularly during the summer, drier in the winter. Thanks for looking! ;)

I just love these, was so taken by it I did some research and found that the correct and accepted name for this is Epidendrum peperomia, will keep my eye out for one over here.

Warren

Cutie, not seen these before.

Hmmm... That is new. If anything it should be Epidendrum porpax, since that was the name before it was Nanodes porpax, which I think was before Neolehmaniana porpax. Unless there is some valid nomenclatural reason that name doesn't work. Weird. I am not a taxonomist, nor do I play one on TV.

I haven't even changed most of my tags from the name I learned it as (Epidendrum porpax), so I doubt I'll be changing them to this new one. *grin* I don't know if 'accepted' is ever the right word for a name change, you'll get old farts like me who insist on the old names. I've had lots of my plants change names only to change back with a new publication.

As an extreme case, long ago I seem to recall that we had an exhibitor in our region who insisted on entering all of his ladyslippers as cypripediums, because darn it, that was what he learned them as... Not sure how old he must have been to have learned paphs and phrags as cyps, but you can't argue with some people.

Regardless of what you call it, it is a really neat little species.

Rob

I almost never change my tags either. They typically stick with what the name they came with when they arrived in my house. :biggrin: