Well nice to see it is not pink and is instead red cantred with white edges. There is a second one that will be different and does have different leaves even.
One type has a stem to the leaves while the other has either no stem or a very short one. There IS a similar family of Orchids to Masdevallia called Dracula. I kid you not on the name and that is the scientific name to the genus. Not familiar with what the actual plants looks like with the Draculas.
But the Dracula flowers have a similar look to the Masdevallias.
Cannot remember but these have a common name but it might be a double common name whereby another groupf of Orchids are commonly known as. This could be Jewel Orchid, like Ludisia, but might be Gem Common names are doubled up a great deal and maybe even tripled with the Obvious ones being Butterfly Orchid.
Possibly called or similar to Shooting Star. Need to check up on that.
Very pleasantly surprised at this one and particularly nice and I like the large Pseudobulbs it has and the flowers are similar to one called a Tahoma Glacier I should have bought last year but will order this year, 2014.
Flowers are unfortunately a little wilted and I cannot wait for this one to flower again.
I have pondered about Masdevallias for some time, they are very nice but do not really look like Orchids and I do like that typical Orchid look that you get with Phalaenopsis, Dendrobium, Cymbidium and like that of another new arrival is the Cattleya!
Now I have never had much luck with Cymbidiums, flowering, and Cattleya, keeping them alive for more than a year?!?!
But then I have a completely different set up now to what I had then and just the light rigging with the powerful LED bulbs and the large 1 metre x 0.5 metre humidity tray.
So let us hope that the Cattleya lives and then I may go for a couple of species I like like amythystoglossa and aclandiae I think it was?
Unlike last year this year will see a number of arrivals to my home and these Orchid areas, at long last, lol.
Onbviously this is a hybrid probably Odontoglossum and Miltonia from the shape of the flowers?
Now I had thought that this one was a wine red and white Orchid that I purchased from Tesco last year, err or year before lol?!
But I then realised that it was yellow and not white I realised it was an Orchid I refer to as the Angry Wasp, just my pet name for it you could say. Because it looks like a wasp and many types or Orchids are supposed to resemble a group of wasps hovering about on a breeze while giving of chemicals to make them appear to be wasps to, well OTHER real Wasps!
We can not smell it but it IS there and Wasps can and this way the Wasps go over trying to attack these Wasps to oonly result in the Wasp pollinating the Orchid flower. This is why many Orchids are not scented. Well noy scented to the human nose, no lol.
Anyway here is the first of a couple of videos I will do of thise one which has overtaken my Dondrobiums as being the earliest flowering Orchid in the new year.
Never thought that would happen and a couple od Dendrobiums do have buds.
I will also get back on my Orchid hunt this year and keep you posted.
Oh I almost forgot I have a few Orchids inbound too which are completely different to anything I have currently or have had previously.
Have a few Orchids that are not far from flowering so at last soime activity on here and on my YouTube account will start to take effect, lol.
Dendrobium victoriae-reginae
Phalaenopsis Mini Hybrid spiking for the first time. As is the only other Phalaenopsis that I have not yet flowered. Many of my Orchids refused to flwer for a long period. This was me feeling sorry for an idiot and offereing my help which was not only taken but then abused in many ways.
That will not happen again I assure you. ;)
MINI PHAL SPIKE... This will be pink! Yes I know I am a guy but was the only bloody colour they had! Well yes I would have BOUGHT a WHITE ONE if they had one! LMAO!
These flowers went pure white and then died of before opening up completely. It also happened to the Dendrobium victoriae-reginae too and at the exact same time. There was a factor involved and this was a Calor Gas fire. I now do not use it as I did and moved it upstairs.
So just in case you think that a gas fire must be better because it will be warmer then no! Do not do it! Luckily it did not harm the plants themelves.
Since removing the gas fire from where it was to another floor one of the canes on my Dendrobium victoriae-reginae seems to have found some energy?! It seems to be growing up and will grow a bit more as the tip has two big leaves with two new leaves appearing next to them! You will normally get a new spurt of growth due to the pars of leaves appearing in nodes, which are normally at least an inch apart or more.
