Pterostylis buds

[cnycharles]

Funky looking things!


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[NYEric]

Nice, which one is that? Mine are growing well but no blooms.

 

[cnycharles]

A week after I planted I put the paper name sheets into the plastic bags the tubers came in and forgot to seal. A few weeks later I saw that moisture had seeped in and the ink had run a marathon (d*oh!) so I will need to send pics to David for id. It’s not the curta, these smaller pots were some of the less vigorous species


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[cnycharles]

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[Dandrobium]

Great pics! I love those things, wish they were available here

 

[Wendy]

Great pics! I love those things, wish they were available here

That makes two of us. They're pretty cool!

 

[emydura]

Nice. As for the identification, can you provide some front-on photos, especially some closeups of the labellum.

 

[cnycharles]

Yes, I just got some full flower pics yesterday after work













All angles


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[emydura]

I have asked for some advice from people who know more than me. Here is his opinion -

Based on a few discussions, this could*be Diplodium obtusum which has a*green labellum, D. elegans (Barrington tops) or a green form of D. torquata. Or, even a hybrid.*

Are you able to ask the person you got it off? I think that will be a more reliable option. This is a big group of orchids and a lot of these species are quite similar looking making them difficult to identify. Especially without knowing their natural location.

 

[cnycharles]

Hello David,

Thanks for the info and possibilities. These all came from David Mellard, I checked some old emails. He expected that what had been sent to me over the last two years was p curta, obtusa, pedunculata and ophioglossa. He also said the obtusa would be flowering now so easier to identify. Dave has a clonal name for most of the tubers he’s sent, ‘mellow spirit’. Not all of them have this name though. So it looks like diplodium obtusum is a winner!

 

[NYEric]

I wonder if I'm growing mine too wet. They look like a forest, with lots of leaves and runners running all over the media, but no flowers!

 

[cnycharles]

These were all outside before getting tons of rain before it got too cold. Maybe not enough light? David grows them in a Georgia greenhouse


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[cnycharles]

Side and back of the first flower, maybe tips browning a little bit


One of the others, wont know species til it opens


Curta starting to bust out of the pot with buds!


First bud getting ready to open




More curta put into another pot. Im not sure which now has the tubers from last year, maybe one of the square pots the squirrel dug into




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[NYEric]

Mine definitely get enough light. Maybe a little drier. Thanks for sharing.

 

[cnycharles]

These are pterostylis curta ‘mellow spirit’, named by David mellard