Mystacidium capense

[Leisurely]

That is what I would describe as a real beauty. Quite a specimen for certain. Love it. Can't wait to get the one I ordered.

[ronkbrown]

A reply to Jerry, mostly. I haven't been on here for some time and had difficulties getting back on board.
My M. capense is doing really well on the frangipani/Plumeria tree. It's fully attached and self supporting now. I've just noticed two small secondary growths appearing. Some pest has eaten some of the root tips while I was away on holidays though. It is quite shaded by the leaves from late spring to about a month into winter. Leaf drop on the fragipani is gradual and the Sun is less intense in winter. It gets water most mornings in summer and a couple of times a week in winter. My climate is quite mild - overnight winter minimum of 7deg C is considered very, very cold. Day temps in summer do occasionally nudge, or pop just over, 40deg C, but that's an extremely hot day. They're usually in the high 20's C to low 30's C. I imagine your temps would be much the same but that you'd have longer summers and shorter winters than I get here.
Have enjoyed reading all the comments and helpful advice from everyone. Thanks...Ron

[Edward Brookes]

M. capense grows wild just up thr road from my home in Pinetown, near Durban. I have seen very large colonies growing on slender acacia branches close to a large dam. They were always in light shade, & seemed restricted to horizontal branches, & none on the vertical trunks. In cultivation, my experience is that they are easy to grow, respond very well to feeding during the growing season, & that soft scale & mealy bugs can do severe damage if left too long. Hawk moth caterpillars will eat an entire plant in one night. We get rain in summer & winter, but there is definitely a winter dry priod. They do need very good air circulation at all times, without which they can succumb to crown rot. We never have frost here, but these plants seem to prefer the cooler areas of higher ground.

[Leisurely]

Nivenj, in the United States, Mystacidium capense is a very desirable orchid and highly collected. As a matter of fact, all of the orchids in the Angraecum section are considered choice by most.

Not only do we like your orchids but we seem to be also wild about your succulent plants.