The discovery of this deep red
Maxillaria schunkeana root inspired me to take a tour of reds and pinks in my tank this morning. Why is it red? No idea - looks like the growing tips of a few roots are that color. So cool!
Lepanthopsis astrophora, I never get tired of these flowers:
Beautiful reddish purple leaves of
Meiracyllium trinasutum:
Neoregelia 'Fireball', one of the smaller Neos at 6x6" full grown:
And for some reason, the Neo's pup that I recently separated is this brilliant, glowing pink:
Dendrobium laterale's adorable pseudobulbs:
Pleurothallis prolifera can take on this deep red when grown in high light, and I think some clones are naturally predisposed to this color. Mine is from Ecuagenera, it was this red when it arrived and the new growth is coming in red as well:
My Nepenthes with a bit of a "sunburn" (but it seems happy):
Tillandsia ionantha 'Guatemala' with pretty pink tips, and
Tillandsia capitata 'Dominican Republic', which is maroon when wet and a silvery purple when dry:
My
Begonia bipinnatifida is a cutting that isn't rooting well yet, so not very photogenic, but the tops of the leaves are deep green and the bottoms are maroon. There are a few plants like that on my wish list:
Selaginella erythropus and a mini African violet, 'SK First Love'.
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Originally Posted by Mr.Fakename
That Nepenthes is sooo small and cute!
Also be sure to put that Sphag capillifolium in the brightest possible spot for a gorgeous red  when mine got toasted this summer I almost cried. |
I'm hoping the Nepenthes stays small, it's supposed to be both a small and tolerant hybrid and I don't have much more room for it. It languished and lost all its pitchers over the summer, I think it got too dry when my temps were up in the 80s for weeks. After I started hand watering it, it perked up, and over the last year in total it has put out two pups that are growing in the pot with it.
I don't actually know which Sphag is which. I bought a set of different Sphags from BP Zoological Supply, and they had obviously been grown outside and were crawling with all sorts of bugs and mites and who knows what. Soaking them in clean water didn't help at all, so I panicked and did a mild bleach treament, which killed almost all of them and bleached the color out of the rest. Lesson learned: cannot bleach Sphagnum, most likely the only way to clean it would be carbon dioxide bombing. So now I have a few patches of live (clean) Sphag in different spots, but no idea which is supposed to be red, which is supposed to be orange, and which is supposed to be green.
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