Recent content by Ricardo Boricua

A friend has a collection of Myrmecophilas. He lives close to the sea, where there is lots of wind and good humidity. The plants receive full sun during certain parts of the day, but not all day. As you see the plants thrive mounted.

Love the color, reminds me of certain Dracula orchids.

I brought this orchid decades ago, from a vendor in New York that said it was a yellow form of anosmum. It didn't turn out to be yellow, but it is something of a mystery. I have not been able to find any reference to this variety on the literature on Dendrobium anosmum. Searching the web...

I like it!

A nicely sized plant in an orchid show.

A cross of Blc. Carolina Golden D'or and Myrmecophila thomsoniana.

I grow Enc. bractescens close to the shade cloth at the top of the shade house in what I call "the burn zone" where light is most intense. The pseudobulbs develop protective pigmentation and bloom well.

I know, I know, lumper taxonomists say it's just a form of tibicinis. I am waiting for a splitter taxonomist to make it a separate species again.

I brought this one at a hardware store. The color is pleasant but the lip is strongly recurved back. I prefer clones that have a flatter lip presentation. This was sold as alata, it appears to be a hybrid, Encyclia Sol de Esperanza. The strongly recurved lip and the petals wider at their...

Is this type of plant available in orchid sources?

Photographed at an orchid show.

I am not sure. It was inside a mass of other orchids all clumped close together.

My experience with Encyclias is that they grow better is potted so that the base of the oldest pseudobulb, the one that will produce the new growth is slightly higher than the level of the potting material. I have used bark, stones, and empty terracota pots, all seem to work as long as the media...

Seen at a local orchid show.

Wonderful flower!