Acineta densa
 

For outdoors or a spacy greenhouse. Intermediate. Flowered last october, flowers lasted 10 days. Grown in a plastic container with holes in the buttom and not in a basket due to drier conditions, to keep the roots moist in summer.

Haven't seen this one before. Cool.

Kim

Very cool! :wtg:

euplusia - very nice, not one that we see in the States that often. I wil have to keep my eyes open next weekend at the Tamiami International Orchid Festival, There will be a few S American vendors, yay!!!

Good luck, glengary54. It´s easy to grow. It´s a common plant at our vendors, but due to it´s size not popular in orchid lovers collections.

That is a magnificent show of blooms. I just wish I have a bigger apartment to put that plant in...

Fantastic blooms. What is the fragrance like?

Steve

Acineta is definitely one of those genera that is under represented here in the US. I'm also curious about the scent....

Wowwww!! Really beautiful and what a nice greenhouse in the background! :)

Thanks all for your nice comments.
I noticed only a faint sweet pleasant scent (some people say like vanilla) in the morning. To my human nose it was not a prominent feature, that I kept in mind. I had exspected a more intense fragrance. But I am sure that the bees can smell the special perfume of these flowers much better, as they come a long way and go crazy to reach the osmophores behind behind the horn on the mesochil. There is a good pic of a cut lip G.Gerlach on the orchidspecies.com website.