Epidendrum radicans 'Pinky'

[Dollythehun]

In the spring of 2015 I found a basket of this on a supplier's greenhouse floor. He gave me a chunk. Some one else identified it for me. It has just grown since then. I put it under a cheap grow light this fall and now have 4 scapes soon to bloom and maybe more to come.

It gets bright light, water and fert sometimes and otherwise benign neglect. Easy and adaptable...but not floofy.

[Bohata]

But it blooms so much more constantly than "floofys"!
Nice color!

[Dollythehun]

Something to be said for easy and rewarding, huh?😁

[jkofferdahl]

Absolutely lovely! I'm a big fan of Epis.

[estación seca]

Really nice color!

I remember seeing flower beds full of reed-stem Epis in coastal southern California when I was a kid. They were mostly a yellow-orange-red variety.

Watch carefully for spider mites. They love these.

[Fernando]

Nice, but no 'radicans'. More like a secundum-hybrid.
They flower all year round ... well, more or less. Sometimes they take a sabbatical, too!

[Dollythehun]

It came without any name. An orchid dealer suggested it was radicans. Thanks for the info, Fernando, I'll look into that.
The original plant was collected by a Purdue professor who obtained it (I understand) from their native habitat where they grow like weeds (and are mowed off by brush hogs).

From another site, Phapmadman says: "Epi. radicans should typically have relatively abundant roots along the stem, and most other reed-stems will be more limited to roots only at the base - a relative difference, not absolute..." this plants has abundant stem roots.

[Fernando]

That would be radicans, indeed. As far as I know, radicans is semi-resupinate, not like the flowers in your photo.
Alas - it's beautiful as it is.

[Mountaineer370]

What a beautiful springtime burst of color!

[Dollythehun]

I see your point. Apparently there is a lot of breeding being done.
Epidendrums — Cal-Orchid Inc.