A question for Bulbo afficionados

[bethmarie]

Thanks for sharing your bulbophyllum experiences, all.

I just looked up hirundinis. Sign me up! It's lovely. Can anyone give me an idea of it's size? How tall it is?

[Subrosa]

Originally Posted by Leafmite

I have a baileyii, too, but I consider it to be my 'large' bulbo.

When I got mine it was definitely rangy, strung out along a tree fern totem. But after it almost died and has now recovered the new growth is much more compact. The leaves aren't exactly miniatures, but at 4"-5" they're not too big.

[Kevinator]

I just measured mine and the largest leaf (including the pbulb) is 2 inches. The currently fading flower spike is 3.5 inches long and the flower umbel is 2.5 inches wide with each flower being around 1.5 inches long.

[Leafmite]

Originally Posted by Subrosa

When I got mine it was definitely rangy, strung out along a tree fern totem. But after it almost died and has now recovered the new growth is much more compact. The leaves aren't exactly miniatures, but at 4"-5" they're not too big.

I am very glad yours survived. It has a great flower. On the mount (mine came from Andy's--tree fern mount, too), it doesn't really take up much room and I think I might have ordered one about the same size from J&L. However, I really do like the tiny ones.

[naoki]

Beth, are you interested in pseudobulbs which is cylindrical? I'm not quite sure about your description.

If you are interested in compact ones, how about:
Trias nummularia
T. picta
Bulbophyllum muscarirubrum
B. sutepense
B. moniliforme
B. minutissimum (similart to B. moniliforme)
B. ovalifolium
? The first 5 are available from LOC

The following species are wonderful, but quite difficult to get, and they may need a bit cooler condition than Raleigh, NC.
B. ankylochele
B. patella (mine here)

If you have an access to this excellent book: A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species, Volume 1, there are quite a few species of Bulbophyllum there.

[bethmarie]

Thanks to all of you
I've got a lot of bulbos to think about now.

I attached a couple of pictures of the psuedobulb shape that i was trying to remember and describe. It's a friend's plant, tagged as setaceum, but flowers are fairly bright orange. Does tingabarinum have PBs shaped like this?

Added a picture of my friend's plant in bloom. Does this look like setaceum?

[AnonYMouse]

I have pbulbs that look like that on plants with fuller pbulbs so I think it's a cultural thing.

Sorry, can't help with ID, I'm not familiar with the section (or any section).

[bethmarie]

Merci, Mouse. I maybe should post it in the ID section for more visibility.

Anyone growing setaceum or taiwanense and care to share experience with those?

I looked up tingabarinum and setaceum on orchidspecies.com and both of them are described as having tetragonal pbs.

[Leafmite]

I think it is the same as my tingabarinum. I am attaching a picture of it when it was in bloom. I am not sure if you can see the pseudobulbs. I am growing it in a jar so it is really tough to get good pictures. I hope this helps. You cannot go wrong buying the tingabarinum, though. It is small and the bloom is very pretty. My photo doesn't do it justice.

I am curious to know what I have gotten from J&L as Bulbophyllum biseriale. The picture they have doesn't seem to match the IOSPE pictures (or any others that I could find!). I really love the orchid (it is so tiny), especially if the flowers turn out like J&L's pictures. Does anyone know?

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[estación seca]

Originally Posted by Leafmite

...my tingabarinum.... I am growing it in a jar...

I would love to see a photo of the jar with the plant in it.