Corybas calopeplos

[cnycharles]

I am quite astonished to say that I have a blooming corybas in my apartment! My first attempt with Aussie ones a few years ago was dismal, nothing even sprouted before dying.
I followed the advice of Benjamin Ooi (relayed from a west coast grower) and made a terrarium and placed the tubers already sprouting roots in the live moss. A leaf came up very quickly with another half emerged but neither of those flowered. A few weeks after, and I saw this bud starting to open from a newly emerged shoot and finally took some so so pics and a few more today with my phone and then a few with my camera that I'll download and post later

A few days ago

Today - the tentacles have grown even longer! Not sure what would pollinate this but it is cool looking :clap:

The tube had the species name calopeplos printed on it, but I have no clue if it is correct or not, I'm just happy to see leaves and a cool flower

I couldn't get my nose into the jar to see if it had fragrance, likely only smell moldy wood and moss




Elmer Nj

 

[NYEric]

Nice. How many did you get to come up? Out of the 4 I got only one came up and bloomed. The others are just sitting there.

 

[Lanmark]

Amazing and well done! It's beautiful!

 

[Migrant13]

Fantastic flower. Congrats on getting it to bloom.

 

[theorchidzone]

That's awesome!
Doubt we'll be seeing these at the local florist anytime soon.
But we love them.
JC

 

[abax]

Is this your lemonade jar? The flower is cute as can be
and I'm looking forward to the development of this project.
You done goood!

 

[paphioboy]

Very nice growing and blooming this little fella! I don't think it is calopeplos though, the flower doesn't look like the one in IOSPE, which has a distinctive eyeball-shaped structure.. I'll ask my local orchid taxonomist friend what yours is. I think possibly crenulatus or geminigibbus.

 

[JeanLux]

Bravo Charles !!!! Jean

 

[naoki]

Congrats, Charles! It looks like C. geminigibbus as Paphoboy said. I bought both C. geminigibbus and C. calopeplos from Ooi Leng Sun, and they were both C. geminigibbus. I chatted about this with Ben during Redland this year, and he indicated that they got these two species from different sources (so he was a bit surprised). I got more C. calopeplos this year, and they are starting to expand leaves now. But they aren't quite large enough to tell if it is missID'd or not.

 

[cnycharles]

@eric, I bought three tubes of calopeplos and three of gemmingibbus (12 tubers total) I think 5 or 6 all together have come up. It looks like one other might have thought about flowering but browned off

@angela yes this is in that lemonade jar. It looked like I might have had a little too much water so I drained some off. The spigot is very helpful for draining off liquid

All the leaves look the same so I'm assuming they all will be gemmingibbus which is fine

 

[SlipperFan]

Unreal! It looks like a relative of a Daddy Long-Legs.

 

[NYEric]

When you look from the front the petal colors look sort of like a wasps's legs. It's hard to photo because of the position.

 

[suzyquec]

Very cool, I have never seen or heard of these before. The flower is so tiny but just exquisite.

 

[NYEric]

They were very hard to get previously. We did a group order from Nesbitt's in Australia a while ago but I don't think any of them survived.

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Neat Charles. I hope they continue growing well for you.

 

[NYEric]

They are even selling these on eBay now. I may get some more.

 

[cnycharles]

Black jungle terrarium supply lists them as well. I hope they are being propagated and not harvested from the woods


Elmer Nj