The plants came from a nursery in Thailand but I don't know where the
species aphylla itself is native.

It takes information a while to sink into my head. When I first looked at
this link I thought it was telling me that Vanilla species all come from the
new world but the link only addresses the 4 species native to Florida out of
the "50 tropical species". I think my stems will revive nicely and I was
just seeking information on how to grow it, especially how to mount it. On
rereading your link I am relieved to discover my plants did not necessarily
get shipped from a Florida everglade to Thailand only to come back to me by
way of an importer in Texas but if that turns out to be the case it would
only be "typical".

I looked closely at the stems and the nodes on the stem where the roots come
out but I can't yet really tell which end I should mount facing up toward
the sky and which end should go down. Your link provided a clue that maybe
I could just leave it horizontal on a bed of moss until it makes up its own
mind. The section on Vanilla barbellata described them as "a strange colony
of deep green, pipe-like tubes crawling across the rocky forest floor."
Perhaps the aphylla will behave the same way.

"Fran Kirby" wrote in message
news:1UIna.499614$F1.71494@sccrnsc04...
From what part of the country(ies) did you get your vanilla? It sounded
like
it was shipped some distance. "are a bit desiccated from their
journey. "


"Al" wrote in message
news : Thank you. It is interesting that Vl. aphyla is not listed with the
species
: on this page but that there are two other leafless Vanilla species...
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: "Fran Kirby" wrote in message
: news:fSHna.496308$3D1.268125@sccrnsc01...
: Try a google search for leafless orchids ...
: http://fig.cox.miami.edu/~scofield/s...h_vanilla.html
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: ...
: : I did a search online and came up with a few links in German and one
in
: : English...didn't learn very much from any of them.
: :
: : If I am reading the botanical name correctly "aphylla" means
leafless,
: and
: : the cuttings i just received would tend to bare this out since they
are
: just
: : 12" pieces of stem that are a bit desiccated from their journey. I
just
: : remembered and hunted down an article on leafless orchids in a
recent
: : "Orchids" magazine and Vanilla aphylla is listed there, so with this
: : confirmed I am still seeking culture advice. My initial plan is to
lay
: the
: : desiccated stems on damp moss until they revive and then affix them
to
: : something upright once I figure out which end is up...
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