Bulbophyllum A-doribil Upwind

[FairyInTheFlowers]

WOW! I just love the swooping sepals!

[gnathaniel]

Great bloom, Glen! Fantastic color and shape. Does it attract hordes of flies with its stench?

--Nat

[glengary54]

Originally Posted by gnathaniel

Great bloom, Glen! Fantastic color and shape. Does it attract hordes of flies with its stench?

--Nat

Nat - Don't laugh, I had to take it out of the greenhouse, the flies were cross pollinating way too many plants and it was making me sick. It's not one that you want to admire up-close for any amount of time.

[gnathaniel]

Originally Posted by glengary54

Nat - Don't laugh, I had to take it out of the greenhouse, the flies were cross pollinating way too many plants and it was making me sick. It's not one that you want to admire up-close for any amount of time.

Sorry, I couldn't help it. I really want to grow more Lepidorhiza bulbos, but since all my plants grow inside our home most of the year I've been forbidden to grow any stinkers. A couple may have found their way in anyway, but I think one with 'Upwind' in it's name might arouse a bit of spousal suspicion...

--Nat

[glengary54]

Originally Posted by gnathaniel

Sorry, I couldn't help it. I really want to grow more Lepidorhiza bulbos, but since all my plants grow inside our home most of the year I've been forbidden to grow any stinkers. A couple may have found their way in anyway, but I think one with 'Upwind' in it's name might arouse a bit of spousal suspicion...

--Nat

Well then for sure, I will have to send you something extra stinky for Christmas.

[DelawareJim]

Glen;

I had to laugh when Bill talked about this cross at the Delaware Orchid Society last night. Stinky x stinky results in oh my God! Does that reek! Talk about hybrid vigour!

He's made some amazing crosses.

Cheers.
Jim

[Cavs n' Orchids]

Ive never really gotten into bulbos, but that flower is fantastic! (except for the stench!)

[Merlyn]

SPECTACULAR, Glen !!!

You KNOW I'm not trying to hijack your thread but here's my echinolabium and it was 14" tip to tip vertically ! I'll trade you !!! LOL !!! You have to stick your nose in mine to smell it and I won't do that again !
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[Daethen]

Wow, what a gorgeous plant. Actually, two. I like yours too, Chryss! Too bad about the stench.

[glengary54]

Originally Posted by Merlyn

SPECTACULAR, Glen !!!

You KNOW I'm not trying to hijack your thread but here's my echinolabium and it was 14" tip to tip vertically ! I'll trade you !!! LOL !!! You have to stick your nose in mine to smell it and I won't do that again !
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Chryss - Hijack away, I've got to be nice to my new hybridizing partner. If you want to trade divisions of stinkys that fine by me. Just so you know, this flower stinks from about a foot away. It's off to my Society's Show this weekend. Hope the flower holds for the Judges.

Your echinolabium is huge, that dorsal dwarfs the rest of the plant.