Anyone ever seen an in situ photo....

[Lars Pedersen]

Has anyone ever seen an in situ photo of Mexipedium ?

I have not, but I would love to.

Christmas greetings from Denmark
Lars

 

[Rob Zuiderwijk]

Hi Lars,

I only now saw your message.
I remember having seen one in situ photo of Mxdm. xerophyticum ever, and that was quite some time ago. I can't remember where I saw it though at this moment. If I remember I'll contact you.

All the best,

Rob Zuiderwijk

 

[Lars Pedersen]

Hello Rob

Good to hear from you

I hope all is well...

Will get back to you soon.


Lars

 

[NYEric]

Maybe you can check these sources.
http://www.orchids.org/species/genera/Mexipedium/index.html

 

[SlipperFan]

Thanks for the link, Eric!

 

[Roth]

That's a really strange story actually surrounding mexipedium. The original plants have been supposedly collected by scientists, yet they did not take any photo of the habitat.

I have seen a picture of a very tiny hill with a plant on it, and another 'close up' but those would not qualify for in-situ pictures, more maked up photos. I am sure that in the wild there should be colonies of few dozen or hundreds growths, looking at how fast it grows in cultivation...


Furthermore, the habitat is said to be 'secret', and the few informations gathered do not fit its way of growing - this species is definitely not exactly a complete xerophyte. There has been supposedly 7 different collected plants, some sources say 9, some others say only 2-3 clumps divided subsequently.

To my mind, owing to the interest in this species, if anyone knew exactly the source location, there would have been another paper showing in-situ pictures, or some studies of the populations, etc...

It is more than likely that, as for some other species here in Asia, some local or tribal people put those funny plants in a commercial collection, and when they were sold from market to market, the origin has been lost...

 

[smartie2000]

Also since Mexico is so close to the United States, in a way, it is hard to believe that we don't recall such photos. It must be located in some very remote areas I'd assume.

 

[Ray]

A Google Images search turned up a single "Mexipedium xerophyticum habitat" photo, but as was mentioned, who knows if it's real?

 

[likespaphs]

i'm fairly sure that one of the people who discovered/registered/published {what's the correct term?} the description is a member here....

 

[NYEric]

I went to language camp near where it comes from. Next time I'm in Mexico I'll take some fotos!

 

[kentuckiense]

i'm fairly sure that one of the people who discovered/registered/published {what's the correct term?} the description is a member here....

Vic Albert posts here. He's one of the systematists that erected Mexipedium and transferred Phragmipedium xerophyticum to it. I don't think any of the people that wrote the official description post here.

 

[Kevin]

If there aren't any in-situ photos, is there a description of the habitat with a list and description of other plants growing along side it? This might help in the cultivation. I might already have the perfect conditions and not even know it!

 

[smartie2000]

This is a link to an article of its rediscovery in 2009, it has photos of them growing in mexico plus some info
http://www.lankesteriana.ucr.ac.cr/PUBlankester/Table%20of%20contents/Lankesteriana%209(3)2010/perez2010.html

 

[ohio-guy]

....did you see this thread?
"Mexypedium Re-discovery (Habitat Pics)"
I am not sure how to do a hyper link, but you can do a search

 

[Rick]

http://www.cnyos.org/exdisp/mexi-site-info.pdf


This link is from that thread that was started in January that Ohio-guy is referring too.

This translation/pdf that Charles in NY made still works and included pictures.

 

[Rick]

This is a link to an article of its rediscovery in 2009, it has photos of them growing in mexico plus some info
http://www.lankesteriana.ucr.ac.cr/PUBlankester/Table%20of%20contents/Lankesteriana%209(3)2010/perez2010.html

Or you can use this link and click on the button that says "full text PDF"

 

[Kevin]

Thanks guys, but it's all in Spanish! Nice pics, but how do I translate it?

 

[VAAlbert]

Hi all;

Two plants were taken out in the early days, and both made their way to the US. The article on rediscovery says some 'afficionados' took a couple other plants out of Mex's habitat, but that only one is still known from it's original locality (a natural burn wiped most out). About a half dozen more clones were found in the new locality. I've seen only 'Windy Hill" and 'Oaxaca' and these are definitely different clones.

Yes, I did the DNA, and description, and this was in fact based on material donated by others -- never seen them in the field.

All best,

Vic Albert.

 

[VAAlbert]

Try translating with Google Translate -- cut and paste

 

[NYEric]

Er, thanks.