Pretty in Hot Pink

[KyushuCalanthe]

I've been growing this plant since 2005. Nearly lost it a few years back due to extreme neglect, but it proved to be surprisingly resilient. It came with the label, H. militaris x H. erichmichelli, so I'm calling it H. rhodochelia x H. erichmichelli. Certainly a shocking splash of color.

 

[Linus_Cello]

How do you grow this? Presumably not outside year round.

 

[Ozpaph]

'Molly' is a lovely colour.

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

How do you grow this? Presumably not outside year round.

Yes, this one comes in for winter. I think I left it out one year well into December and it survived. Of course by then it is fully dormant and we don't usually get any freezes until after Christmas. If I ever build a greenhouse (maybe sometime this year or next?), I probably can overwinter it in there, along with many other tropicals. We are so close to the subtropics that an unheated greenhouse can sustain most frost sensitive stuff 90% of the time.

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

'Molly' is a lovely colour.

Interesting reference. Didn't understand until I googled it. In America 'Molly' is a name for MDMA!

 

[Ozpaph]

You missed it. 'Pretty in Pink' is a 1986 teen, cult film starring Molly Ringwald........................

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

You missed it. 'Pretty in Pink' is a 1986 teen, cult film starring Molly Ringwald........................

Ha ha, forgot about that one...

 

[tnyr5]

That would make it Habenaria Tracey, assuming the "militaris" really was a rhodocheila, and not that giant-flowered undescribed species with dendritic tuberoids.