Larry,

If you ignore color and look at the structure of the lip, they all three
appear to my eyes to be the same species.

They have the same three-lobed lip, where the middle, downward pointing lobe
has three parallel "hills" running down them.

Anyone with more botanical training taken a look at this?

-Eric in SF

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
...

I'm having a difficult time finding healthy Epidendrum anisatum
plants. The first on I purchased from Woodstream was a little puny,
developed a scale infestation, and is on its last legs. So I ordered
one from Countryside.

Bill shipped two mostly dead plants in place of the one I had ordered
hoping that doubling the quantity would make up for the mostly dead
quality plants I received. If I were him, I'd have been happy to get
these out of my greenhouse too.

I'm going to order from The Orchid Connection next, however they're
sold out at this time.


What is the trick to growing this species?

Is anyone able to provide contact information for a vendor with good
Epidendrum anisatum plants?

There are pictures he

http://www.woodstreamorchids.com/epianis1.html
http://www.orchidconnection.com/epi_anisatum.htm
http://www.orchidspecies.com/orphotdir/epianisatum.jpg

Unfortunately, the pictures in the first two links do not match the
one in the last link. Which is correct?

Does anyone grow this species successfully?

Help!