Don't know where it started, Kathy, but you're right - it'a a popular mount
style now. I guess its real advantage is the relative ease of replacing the
medium when it gets too old. I have a quite large Dockrillia schoenina on a
piece of tree limb - the roots go for feet. But the limb is now rotting & I
can't see how to remove the orchid without destroying half its root structure.
Now, if I had mounted it on gutter guard ....

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:57:33 -0800, "K Barrett" wrote:

That method of mounting is making its way around the globe. Being merely
sphagnum moss wrapped with gutter guard or other hardware cloth-like
material. I'm amazed to see its gotten to Oz already. I only lerned of it
2-3 months ago. Or maybe its gotten to the West coast already, depending on
who came up with it 'first'.

K Barrett
"Dave Gillingham" wrote in message
.. .
The plant was labelled B. aurantiacum, which I understand to be a
superseded
taxon, B. schillerianum being currently accepted (unless you take David
Jones's
recent major restructure, which would have it as Oxysepala schilleriana).

It's distributed from NE Queensland to Central E NSW.
Dave Gillingham
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