Burrageara Dee Luce 'Everglades' - Orchid Board

Mikeg · #1 07-18-2010, 10:16 PM

Hey everyone! I was at a show today and bought a Burrageara orchid. They gave me a Oncidium care sheet for it. Can anyone help me with the requirements for the plant? Thanks, Mike

WhiteRabbit · #2 07-18-2010, 11:26 PM

Oncidium care should be fine! Burrageara (Burr.) is an Oncidium alliance complex inter-generic hybrid of Cochlioda, Miltonia, Odontoglossum and Oncidium (Cda. x Milt. x Odm. x Onc.).

RosieC · #3 07-20-2010, 06:51 PM

Yeah, care is pretty similar to an Onc. I don't think the vendor made a mistake, they just gave you the care sheet closest to the orchid you have bought. There are so many different genuses that most of these places have just a few care sheets which broadly cover the range.

RosieC · #4 07-20-2010, 06:54 PM

Oh yeah... and the link below is a good source of care sheets, again you would pick the ones closest related to your orchid, which in this case would be the Onc and the Odontoglossum care sheets.

AOS - CareSheets

Mikeg · #5 07-21-2010, 09:56 PM

Is the Burrageara genus an easy specie?

RosieC · #6 07-22-2010, 05:43 AM

Not sure Mike as I'm still getting used to them myself. I struggle with getting the watering right... but the good news is that orchids with p-bulbs can cope with underwatering while you get used to them (I tend to underwater and the p-bulbs shrivel and the new growths wrinkle).

Mikeg · #7 07-22-2010, 09:46 PM

Ha ha well thanks! I am going to have to follow my Oncidium care sheet and see how it goes. I will post pics soon.

Mikeg · #8 07-23-2010, 05:26 PM

So would this genus show up naturally in nature? And I am still confused on this orchid. It is way different than Catt.'s! So anymore help would be greatly appreciated.!

RosieC · #9 07-24-2010, 04:56 AM

I don't think this genus would show up in nature. It's a man-made mixture of multiple natural genuses.

You can get hybrids in nature but I think usually you don't get the different genuses that are capable of crossing growing near each other, so generally natural hybrids are within the one genus.

There are many many orchid hybrids in cultivation which don't occur in nature because humans have taken orchids which grow far apart and crossed them. I'm pretty sure most of the inter-generic hybrids are that way.

Mikeg · #10 07-24-2010, 03:11 PM

Well thanks! I was just a tad confused because it was like "how would this happen on nature?" And i Was wondering when I go to repot it would the Miracle gro orchid mixture work for Burrageara?