Bulbophyllums and Cirrhopetalums

Bulbophyllum lobbii 'Kathy's Gold

Bulbophyllum lobbii is a species of Bulbophyllum found in asia. Plant blooms in the summer with a single 10 cm wide flower. Flowers are fragrant. Plants are found growing on tree branches and trunks in the lowland forest of Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters Keep plant in intermediate to warm temperatures. Keep moist in summer seasons and do not allow mix to dry, in winter keep the mix slight dry and reduce watering. Keep good air movement to avoid fungal growth. Keep plants in shade. Pot plants in sphagnum moss, fine bark, or mounted.

Bulbophyllum medusae

Bulbophyllum medusae is a species of Bulbophyllum found in Asia. Plant blooms from fall or early winter with a cluster of flowers. Each cluster is comprised of 30-100 tiny flowers each with long slender sepals. The sepals may be as long as 15 cm. Flowers are fragrant. In the wild it grows hanging from trees and rocks so the flower spikes may emerge from the base of each pseudobulb. It is an epiphytic orchid from the Malay Peninsula, Thailand and Borneo at elevations of 0 to 400 meters. It has stiff dark green leaves about 10 cm long. A single leaf emerges from each of the walnut-sized pseudobulbs. It is a creeping orchid and it can spread to cover the pot or slab it is living on. Bulbophyllum medusae was mentioned in Annales Botanices Systematicae in 1864. The plant is found growing in the Malay Peninsula, Thailand and Borneo. Keep plant in warm temperatures. Keep moist in summer seasons and do not allow mix to dry, in winter keep the mix slight dry and reduce watering. Keep good air movement to avoid fungal growth. Keep plants in shade. Pot plants in sphagnum moss, fine bark, or mounted. Entymology:Named after Gorgon Medusa of Greek mythology since the long lateral sepals of its flowers are rather like the snakes that formed Medusa's hair. Common Names: Medusa's Bulbophyllum

Bulbophyllum medusae

Bulbophyllum medusae is a species of Bulbophyllum found in Asia. Plant blooms from fall or early winter with a cluster of flowers. Each cluster is comprised of 30-100 tiny flowers each with long slender sepals. The sepals may be as long as 15 cm. Flowers are fragrant. In the wild it grows hanging from trees and rocks so the flower spikes may emerge from the base of each pseudobulb. It is an epiphytic orchid from the Malay Peninsula, Thailand and Borneo at elevations of 0 to 400 meters. It has stiff dark green leaves about 10 cm long. A single leaf emerges from each of the walnut-sized pseudobulbs. It is a creeping orchid and it can spread to cover the pot or slab it is living on. Bulbophyllum medusae was mentioned in Annales Botanices Systematicae in 1864. The plant is found growing in the Malay Peninsula, Thailand and Borneo. Keep plant in warm temperatures. Keep moist in summer seasons and do not allow mix to dry, in winter keep the mix slight dry and reduce watering. Keep good air movement to avoid fungal growth. Keep plants in shade. Pot plants in sphagnum moss, fine bark, or mounted. Entymology:Named after Gorgon Medusa of Greek mythology since the long lateral sepals of its flowers are rather like the snakes that formed Medusa's hair. Common Names: Medusa's Bulbophyllum

Bulbophyllum ovalifolium

Bulbophyllum ovalifolium is a species of Bulbophyllum found in asia. Plant blooms from fall to summer with a single 2 cm wide flower. Plants are found in the montane forest of Java, Sulawesi, Borneo, Sumatra, and Malaysia at elevations of 900 to 2000 meters. Keep plant in intermediate to warm temperatures. Keep moist in summer seasons and do not allow mix to dry, in winter keep the mix slight dry and reduce watering. Keep good air movement to avoid fungal growth. Keep plants in shade. Pot plants in sphagnum moss, fine bark, or mounted.

Cirrhopetalum breviscapum 'Malaya'

Found in India, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia in moist montane forests and seasonally dry forests as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm to cool growing species with cylindro-ovate pseudobulbs with a single, apical, oblong-obovate leaf that blooms in the fall with solitary flowers, or a few in umbels on shorter, slender inflorescence that arises from a mature pseudobulb and has the fragrant flower scented of strawberrys held just below or above the leaves. This species is maintained best in a wood basket with a free draining medium, given partial shade and air movement, and grown in hot temperatures with frequent water and fertilizer.

Cirrhopetalum wendlandianum

Found in northern Myanmar and Thailand on trees and rocks in forests margins as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters with a creeping, branching rhizome with 1.6" [4 cm] between each ovoid to ovoid-conical, tetragonal to multi-angular, slightly glossy, yellow green pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical,stiff, leathery, thick, rigid, minutely rugose, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, coriaceous, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring with up to 7 simultaneously opening flowers, on a basal, 2.8 to 6" [7 to 15 cm] long, stout, rigid inflorescence which arises from a newly forming pseudobulb and holds an umbel of a few to many fragrant flowers at the apex. A hot to cool growing orchid that needs an open medium, partial shade and frequent watering and fertilizer.

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  Bulbophyllum lobbii 'Kathy's Gold

  Bulbophyllum lobbii is a species of Bulbophyllum found in asia. Plant blooms in the summer with a single 10 cm wide flower. Flowers are fragrant. Plants are found growing on tree branches and trunks in the lowland forest of Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters Keep plant in intermediate to warm temperatures. Keep moist in summer seasons and do not allow mix to dry, in winter keep the mix slight dry and reduce watering. Keep good air movement to avoid fungal growth. Keep plants in shade. Pot plants in sphagnum moss, fine bark, or mounted.

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  Bulbophyllum medusae

  Bulbophyllum medusae is a species of Bulbophyllum found in Asia. Plant blooms from fall or early winter with a cluster of flowers. Each cluster is comprised of 30-100 tiny flowers each with long slender sepals. The sepals may be as long as 15 cm. Flowers are fragrant. In the wild it grows hanging from trees and rocks so the flower spikes may emerge from the base of each pseudobulb. It is an epiphytic orchid from the Malay Peninsula, Thailand and Borneo at elevations of 0 to 400 meters. It has stiff dark green leaves about 10 cm long. A single leaf emerges from each of the walnut-sized pseudobulbs. It is a creeping orchid and it can spread to cover the pot or slab it is living on. Bulbophyllum medusae was mentioned in Annales Botanices Systematicae in 1864. The plant is found growing in the Malay Peninsula, Thailand and Borneo. Keep plant in warm temperatures. Keep moist in summer seasons and do not allow mix to dry, in winter keep the mix slight dry and reduce watering. Keep good air movement to avoid fungal growth. Keep plants in shade. Pot plants in sphagnum moss, fine bark, or mounted. Entymology:Named after Gorgon Medusa of Greek mythology since the long lateral sepals of its flowers are rather like the snakes that formed Medusa's hair. Common Names: Medusa's Bulbophyllum

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  Bulbophyllum medusae

  Bulbophyllum medusae is a species of Bulbophyllum found in Asia. Plant blooms from fall or early winter with a cluster of flowers. Each cluster is comprised of 30-100 tiny flowers each with long slender sepals. The sepals may be as long as 15 cm. Flowers are fragrant. In the wild it grows hanging from trees and rocks so the flower spikes may emerge from the base of each pseudobulb. It is an epiphytic orchid from the Malay Peninsula, Thailand and Borneo at elevations of 0 to 400 meters. It has stiff dark green leaves about 10 cm long. A single leaf emerges from each of the walnut-sized pseudobulbs. It is a creeping orchid and it can spread to cover the pot or slab it is living on. Bulbophyllum medusae was mentioned in Annales Botanices Systematicae in 1864. The plant is found growing in the Malay Peninsula, Thailand and Borneo. Keep plant in warm temperatures. Keep moist in summer seasons and do not allow mix to dry, in winter keep the mix slight dry and reduce watering. Keep good air movement to avoid fungal growth. Keep plants in shade. Pot plants in sphagnum moss, fine bark, or mounted. Entymology:Named after Gorgon Medusa of Greek mythology since the long lateral sepals of its flowers are rather like the snakes that formed Medusa's hair. Common Names: Medusa's Bulbophyllum
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  Bulbophyllum ovalifolium

  Bulbophyllum ovalifolium is a species of Bulbophyllum found in asia. Plant blooms from fall to summer with a single 2 cm wide flower. Plants are found in the montane forest of Java, Sulawesi, Borneo, Sumatra, and Malaysia at elevations of 900 to 2000 meters. Keep plant in intermediate to warm temperatures. Keep moist in summer seasons and do not allow mix to dry, in winter keep the mix slight dry and reduce watering. Keep good air movement to avoid fungal growth. Keep plants in shade. Pot plants in sphagnum moss, fine bark, or mounted.
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  Cirrhopetalum breviscapum 'Malaya'

  Found in India, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia in moist montane forests and seasonally dry forests as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm to cool growing species with cylindro-ovate pseudobulbs with a single, apical, oblong-obovate leaf that blooms in the fall with solitary flowers, or a few in umbels on shorter, slender inflorescence that arises from a mature pseudobulb and has the fragrant flower scented of strawberrys held just below or above the leaves. This species is maintained best in a wood basket with a free draining medium, given partial shade and air movement, and grown in hot temperatures with frequent water and fertilizer.
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  Cirrhopetalum wendlandianum

  Found in northern Myanmar and Thailand on trees and rocks in forests margins as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters with a creeping, branching rhizome with 1.6" [4 cm] between each ovoid to ovoid-conical, tetragonal to multi-angular, slightly glossy, yellow green pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical,stiff, leathery, thick, rigid, minutely rugose, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, coriaceous, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring with up to 7 simultaneously opening flowers, on a basal, 2.8 to 6" [7 to 15 cm] long, stout, rigid inflorescence which arises from a newly forming pseudobulb and holds an umbel of a few to many fragrant flowers at the apex. A hot to cool growing orchid that needs an open medium, partial shade and frequent watering and fertilizer.

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