What a trip you had, John! What is the plant hanging near the top left of
the picture - the one with the huge leaves? It's just to the right of the
hose spool.

Diana

Yes, Diana. I certainly packed a lot into 2 days (plus 1 day travelling).
Helped a lot that people such as Eric and Danny were available (or at least
made themselves available) the days I was in town.

I believe the plant in the photo is a baby Bulbophyllum fletcherianum. (Eric
can confirm.)

Not one for the home hobbiest unless you have heaps of room. The leaves can
grow to around 2 meters (6 feet). See
http://www.orchidspecies.com/bulbfletcherianum.htm at Jay's web site and
http://aoki2.si.gunma-u.ac.jp/Botani...bophyllum.html for
other photos of this species.

Cheers

John


"Diana Kulaga" wrote in message
. ..
What a trip you had, John! What is the plant hanging near the top left of
the picture - the one with the huge leaves? It's just to the right of the
hose spool.

Diana

John,

It's actually Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis.

Not a baby one - a full grown one grown under cooler conditions than it
prefers. It does bloom for us, which isn't too bad, but then the greenhouse
smells like a dead rat for about a week. Thankfully the bloom is
short-lived. Other people grow it hot hot hot and humid and it gets those
glorious 6 foot leaves. See:

http://tinyurl.com/vln72

for an example of what it can do.

-Eric in SF
www.orchidphotos.org

"John Varigos" wrote in message
om...
Yes, Diana. I certainly packed a lot into 2 days (plus 1 day travelling).
Helped a lot that people such as Eric and Danny were available (or at
least made themselves available) the days I was in town.

I believe the plant in the photo is a baby Bulbophyllum fletcherianum.
(Eric can confirm.)

Not one for the home hobbiest unless you have heaps of room. The leaves
can grow to around 2 meters (6 feet). See
http://www.orchidspecies.com/bulbfletcherianum.htm at Jay's web site and
http://aoki2.si.gunma-u.ac.jp/Botani...bophyllum.html for
other photos of this species.

Cheers

John


"Diana Kulaga" wrote in message
. ..
What a trip you had, John! What is the plant hanging near the top left of
the picture - the one with the huge leaves? It's just to the right of the
hose spool.

Diana

Thanks for the correction Eric

"Eric Hunt" wrote in message
...
John,

It's actually Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis.

Not a baby one - a full grown one grown under cooler conditions than it
prefers. It does bloom for us, which isn't too bad, but then the
greenhouse smells like a dead rat for about a week. Thankfully the bloom
is short-lived. Other people grow it hot hot hot and humid and it gets
those glorious 6 foot leaves. See:

http://tinyurl.com/vln72

for an example of what it can do.

-Eric in SF
www.orchidphotos.org

"John Varigos" wrote in message
om...
Yes, Diana. I certainly packed a lot into 2 days (plus 1 day
travelling). Helped a lot that people such as Eric and Danny were
available (or at least made themselves available) the days I was in town.

I believe the plant in the photo is a baby Bulbophyllum fletcherianum.
(Eric can confirm.)

Not one for the home hobbiest unless you have heaps of room. The leaves
can grow to around 2 meters (6 feet). See
http://www.orchidspecies.com/bulbfletcherianum.htm at Jay's web site and
http://aoki2.si.gunma-u.ac.jp/Botani...bophyllum.html for
other photos of this species.

Cheers

John


"Diana Kulaga" wrote in message
. ..
What a trip you had, John! What is the plant hanging near the top left
of the picture - the one with the huge leaves? It's just to the right of
the hose spool.

Diana

Wow, look at the size of that! Between the size and *dead rat*, this won't
be on my wish list any time soon!

Diana

"John Varigos" wrote in message
om...
Thanks for the correction Eric

"Eric Hunt" wrote in message
...
John,

It's actually Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis.

Not a baby one - a full grown one grown under cooler conditions than it
prefers. It does bloom for us, which isn't too bad, but then the
greenhouse smells like a dead rat for about a week. Thankfully the bloom
is short-lived. Other people grow it hot hot hot and humid and it gets
those glorious 6 foot leaves. See:

http://tinyurl.com/vln72

for an example of what it can do.

-Eric in SF
www.orchidphotos.org

"John Varigos" wrote in message
om...
Yes, Diana. I certainly packed a lot into 2 days (plus 1 day
travelling). Helped a lot that people such as Eric and Danny were
available (or at least made themselves available) the days I was in
town.

I believe the plant in the photo is a baby Bulbophyllum fletcherianum.
(Eric can confirm.)

Not one for the home hobbiest unless you have heaps of room. The leaves
can grow to around 2 meters (6 feet). See
http://www.orchidspecies.com/bulbfletcherianum.htm at Jay's web site and
http://aoki2.si.gunma-u.ac.jp/Botani...bophyllum.html
for other photos of this species.

Cheers

John


"Diana Kulaga" wrote in message
. ..
What a trip you had, John! What is the plant hanging near the top left
of the picture - the one with the huge leaves? It's just to the right
of the hose spool.

Diana

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 15:46:37 -0800, "Eric Hunt"
wrote:
John,
It's actually Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis.
Not a baby one - a full grown one grown under cooler conditions than it
prefers. It does bloom for us, which isn't too bad, but then the greenhouse
smells like a dead rat for about a week. Thankfully the bloom is
short-lived. Other people grow it hot hot hot and humid and it gets those
glorious 6 foot leaves. See: http://tinyurl.com/vln72 for an example of what it can do.

-Eric in SF
www.orchidphotos.org


Dead Rat? I thought this was the one that at NY Show always had
people thinking they stepped in Doggy doo. You mean it is worse than
that?


SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/orchids

Sue,

Yeah, dead rat - decaying flesh. It's not a fecal-based scent. Bulbophyllum
echinolabium has a fecal-based scent - makes people check their shoes
whenever they're within smell range but haven't seen the flower to know
where the scent originates. =)

Dead Rat? I thought this was the one that at NY Show always had
people thinking they stepped in Doggy doo. You mean it is worse than
that?

Someone (Fred Clarke?) told a story about thinking a dead rat smell was
coming from a Bulbo and then realizing after a few days that it really was a
dead rat :-)
-danny

"Eric Hunt" wrote in message
...
Sue,

Yeah, dead rat - decaying flesh. It's not a fecal-based scent.
Bulbophyllum echinolabium has a fecal-based scent - makes people check
their shoes whenever they're within smell range but haven't seen the
flower to know where the scent originates. =)

Dead Rat? I thought this was the one that at NY Show always had
people thinking they stepped in Doggy doo. You mean it is worse than
that?

Danny,

My story goes the other way - we battle rats every winter. Last winter we'd
set out bait and caught one - but it died somewhere inconvient and we
smelled it for a couple weeks before the carcass was located. A month later
our B. phalaenopsis came into bloom and I immediately was like "Oh! We got
another rat! Where is it!?" and then a few hours later noticed the blooms on
the B. phalaenopsis. They're hard to see - they grow right at the base of
the pseudobulb, behind the leaves.

-Eric in SF
www.orchidphotos.org

"danny" wrote in message
news
Someone (Fred Clarke?) told a story about thinking a dead rat smell was
coming from a Bulbo and then realizing after a few days that it really was
a dead rat :-)

Eeeeeeyeeew!

Diana

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 07:53:12 -0800 in Eric Hunt wrote:
Sue,

Yeah, dead rat - decaying flesh. It's not a fecal-based scent. Bulbophyllum
echinolabium has a fecal-based scent - makes people check their shoes
whenever they're within smell range but haven't seen the flower to know
where the scent originates. =)

Ah, thanks for the warning.
Picked one of those up from C&H in December as incentive to not dally on
getting the greenhouse reassembled. I just saw that it was odorous,
but don't remember the specifics...


--
Chris Dukes
elfick willg: you can't use dell to beat people, it wouldn't stand up
to the strain... much like attacking a tank with a wiffle bat