Catasetums are notorious for that! Just touch the flower or expose it to
the slightest breeze, and the pollen pops out and poof! the flower dies
quickly. Since I grow outside under screening, and my plants are exposed to
substantial air movement, I don't grow these, lovely as they are.
Diana
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:35:34 +0000, J X M wrote:
Don't ever move an orchid unless you are paying
full attention and if it has spikes, think a few times, before so much
as taking
it anywhere near an automobile.
Johnny McIntyre
When talking about orchids and cars, I recently bought a Catasetum
tenebrosum in bloom, the vendor said I should be very careful, not to
touch
the flowers because they will explode with pollen and the flower will die
very quickly. So I was walking through the town with the plant in my hand
(imagine all the passers-by looking at me 
)) ), got into the train and
spend 2,5 hours travelling to my city. Everething was fine until I had to
take the taxi from the station to my flat. While I was trying to board the
car I touched the plant and one of the flowers blasted right into my face,
a
piece of it just glued into my nose )). I put it in my flat and then
decided to move it to my cottage, and what ? Of course, when I was putting
it into the car second flower blasted. I think orchids and cars just do
not
go together.
greetings from Poland
Martha