Central PA Orchid Society Show - March 25-26

[tnyr5]

Hear ye, hear ye! Come one, come all! Free parking, free admission!

 

[tnyr5]

Oh and I'll be displaying my collection of natives, unless something stupid happens.

 

[NYEric]

Wow!

 

[tnyr5]

Tis this Saturday, and...

Just sayin...

 

[tant385]

Who are the vendors?

 

[Djthomp28]

wow! lovely showing.

 

[tnyr5]

Woodstream, Orchid enterprise, Fair orchids, & Wade's

 

[tnyr5]

Juuuuuuust sayin....

 

[tnyr5]

T'was a nice show.

 

[Hien]

Wait a minute, don't tell me this person grow the orchid on rare expensive Reishi mushroom substrate? are they Reishi mushrooms?

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[tnyr5]

Nah, turkey tails mostly. I did see some hemlock reishis while I was out, though.

 

[Tom-DE]

Juuuuuuust sayin....

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Tony, It is a very nice display...
what is the name of the species in the pot labeled #12...I have something like that growing in my woods. The leaves are interesting(reddish and some marking) and the flowers(along a thin stem) are tiny...it dies back to the ground in summer and then it emerges in the fall....

 

[tnyr5]

That's Tipularia discolor.

 

[Tom-DE]

That's Tipularia discolor.

Thank you.

 

[BrucherT]

Wait a minute, don't tell me this person grow the orchid on rare expensive Reishi mushroom substrate? are they Reishi mushrooms?

Not reishi (Ganoderma tsugae and G. curtisii, mostly, in U.S.). Looks like turkey tail (Trametes versicolor) and maybe Oxyporus populinus, the mossy maple polypore. Possibly another Trametes such as T. gibbosa but I don’t think so.

Reishi are not rare, btw. One of the most abundant polypores in the world. It’s widely cultivated in Asia and increasingly here in North America too.

I love the imaginative arrangements. Surprised to see the Tipularia; guessing those are dug up? Never seen anyone grow and and skeptical about its cultivatibility.

 

[BrucherT]

Ditto the Goodyeara repens. Is that a longterm cultivated specimen or poached?

 

[tnyr5]

 

[MorandiWine]

I will vouch for the legitimacy of those plants being 100% captive produced. Tony has really gone out of his way to source plants and propagate them now into multiple generations.

Tyler

 

[BrucherT]

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STUNNING!!!!