Another mystery orchid.
 

Hello,

Here's an orchid that I received a little over a year or so ago and to this very day I have no clue as to what this orchid is.

I've sent photos to one of my friends who owns an orchid farm up in Tampa (Louis Del Favero Orchids) and even he is stumped. Louis said the only thing he can come up with is that the orchid is a Den. of some kind.

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The person who gifted the plant to me said he found big clusters of this plant growing on some oak trees on his property down here in SWFL. It was originally just one bulb then when I received it, I mounted it, and the thing just shot out a bunch of keiki's!

I also noticed this morning that the little guy has a new little keiki starting to push its way put!

Does anyone else have any guesses as to what this may be? It's never bloomed so this may be a long shot without a photo of the flower


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And now that I'm really looking at these photos I'm noticing another keiki! How exciting!

Bulbo.?

I would guess Dendrobium, also. Something in the D. aggregatum group. The roots are too thick for most of the Oncidium alliance, and this kind of Den. often pushes new growths from leaf scars well up the pseudobulb. Schomburgkia/Myrmecophila also frequently produce shoots from upper leaf scars.

Do you think it is Den. Jenkinsii?

The question with Dendrob or Bulbo is how such a plant came to be growing on multiple trees in Florida when the current owner didn't place them there. Given the property and conditions where they were found, how likely is it that this was deliberately planted long enough ago that the origin is unknown?

Since the new growth here is quite stunted compared to the older pseudobulb it is hard to say how typical the appearance might be. The new growth looks possibly Laeliinae to me rather than Dendrob or Bulbo, and that would probably be more likely in south Florida, even if it isn't native.

Could be but I think the leaves on my plant are a bit more sharp


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Yea I'm also puzzled as to how they got there.

Do you have an example photo of what you think it may be?


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