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Eurychone rothschildiana
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I posted about our Eurychone rothschildiana last year, September 27th 2015 (click this link). Like last year, we have two flower stems and produced nine beautiful delicate flowers. Once again, not all of the flowers bloom at the same time. At this moment a few of the flowers have already wilted. This orchid, which is endemic to central Africa, loves moist and shady conditions to grow. Of course, we keep this specimen indoors under light all year long in our basement. We only take it out to photograph it and back in it goes!
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| A) The buds and flower stems began to appear early in July this year. Here is an "aerial" shot on August 7th. |
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| B) The entire specimen in the same clay pot from last year. Doing well with green moss establishing itself in the pot. |
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| C) A close up of the buds. |
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| D) The entire plant on August 20, 2016. |
If you would like to read more about this specimen, please click here, this will take you to my post from last year with additional information from Arne. In comparison from last year, the entire plant has definitely grew at least twice its original size!
Have a great week everyone and I hope you have enjoyed my post today. I conclude with a zoomed in picture of the flowers. Such gorgeous emerald green and black hues within each white flower.
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| E) I conclude with a close up view of the flower. |
Beautifully grown
ReplyDeleteThanks TD. It is really doing well in Arne's hand. Is that an Angraecum sesquipedale you're holding? Lovely.
DeleteHow do you keep your humidity high enough in the basement?
ReplyDeleteI do almost nothing about the humidity. In the general growing area I have humidity trays but I only fill them with water from January till May, when it is cold outside and dry inside. The absolute humidity might be quite high outside in Baltimore also in winter but when the outside air comes inside, the relative humidity drops upon the temperature increase. In addition to that I mist the most sensitive plants often in winter. I also have a small semi-closed case for some of the smallest and more sensitive orchids. That one contains water at the bottom all year round. In general, I think the need for high humidity is exaggerated, unless you live in Colorado, Arizona etc where the humidity is extremely low. Most orchids do quite well with a humidity of 50 % or so./Arne
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