Epidendrum ellipticum - it keeps going, and going ...
 

species from Brazil and Paraguay

Perpetually in bloom!

This one, in a 4" pot, has 25 spikes, plus a couple of keikis with spikes.

I posted this one in November, with 18 spikes at the time. http://www.orchidboard.com/community...llipticum.html Those spikes are still blooming, plus 7 more! (as well as the two keiki spkes) :D

This has been very temperature tolerant, is very happy with sun for much of the day in summer (could probably take sun all day). It grows outdoors year-round here in zone 9, sheltered from frost, freeze, cold night rain in winter. This winter, due to the unfortunate lack of rain here, I was able to leave it in a spot that gets more sun than it would have gotten otherwise, so it only just slightly slowed down in blooming.

The tallest cane is about 12" -I forgot to measure the spike length - some, that have already been blooming a while, are quite long, altho, some stop blooming from the tip after a while, but then start budding up from the node just beneath where the first buds appeared.

Blooms are about 1/2".

Thanks for looking :)

Wow, really cool. Look a really happy plant!

Ahhhhh...to be able to grow outside year round. It's beautiful and clearly very, very happy.

Just bought a few of these, which are just starting to bloom. Happy to see that they stay compact; and that larger plants bloom year round.

That's pretty cool you can have it growing outside all year round. Any chance of mounting a piece of this one on a tree?

Super cool.

Kim

Thank you all! :)

Steve - I don't know about mounting on a tree - we do get a few nights of frost or light freeze ... But, I may try a keiki, or small piece at some time - what the heck, eh? ;)

Heck ya! Your plant is big enough to slice off a small peice and run an experiment with!

yeah, it's trying to break out of it's pot now - just the last time I repotted (after it had literally broke out of it's pot), all the spikes died, even with me trying to not disturb the roots - but, it will need to be done, regardless, pretty soon

The young plants I got in Feb were spiking, but not in bloom. I repotted them in March, and that did not negatively affect those spikes.