emydura
Well-Known Member
I have just started growing Australian terrestrial orchids. Here are a couple of my early winter flowering plants.
Mallee Long Tongue Shell Orchid (Diplodium dolichochilum) - this one seems to multiply quite rapidly. It went from 15 tubers to 60 tubers in one year. Interestingly, the tubers produce either a growth or a flowering spike. You can see in the third photo where the spike comes straight out of the soil, not a plant. Out of the 60 tubers I only got 4 spikes.
Bristly Helmet Orchid (Corybas hispidus) - you get these relatively large flowers on a single leaf. This group needs a lot of humidity to develop the flowers so I placed the pot in a small glass container. Otherwise the flower buds will blast. This species multiplies very fast.
Mallee Long Tongue Shell Orchid (Diplodium dolichochilum) - this one seems to multiply quite rapidly. It went from 15 tubers to 60 tubers in one year. Interestingly, the tubers produce either a growth or a flowering spike. You can see in the third photo where the spike comes straight out of the soil, not a plant. Out of the 60 tubers I only got 4 spikes.
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Bristly Helmet Orchid (Corybas hispidus) - you get these relatively large flowers on a single leaf. This group needs a lot of humidity to develop the flowers so I placed the pot in a small glass container. Otherwise the flower buds will blast. This species multiplies very fast.
![Corybas%206524.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/730/7304b0e818eddcdc1501018b5ac8c848.jpg)