Coryanthes bud progression

[Lycaste53]

I hope you will be able to take pics while opening. My Corys opened all in the late morning, after having some daylight, and inbetween two hours. It´s qiute exiting to watch this progress.
Best regards, Gina

 

[paphioboy]

Mutated duck-billed platypus alert!

 

[Rick]

I hope you will be able to take pics while opening. My Corys opened all in the late morning, after having some daylight, and inbetween two hours. It´s qiute exiting to watch this progress.
Best regards, Gina

Shoot! I missed it. My oldest son got married this weekend, and had to spend a lot of time on Saturday setting up , and today tearing down. The wedding did go over very well IMHO.

When I left the house at 8 Am the buds where not open in the slightest, but when I got back at 3 PM





Another shocker is that this is not C. macrocory, but apparently C. fieldingii (which is also on the Oakhill pricelist, so I guess a label mishap).

There is 20 cm from one end of the flowers to the other. Smells kind of like liquorice and antiseptic. I pulled the pollen to see if I can breed it.

Enjoy!

 

[Jorch]

It's beautiful!

 

[JeanLux]

Wow, extreme complex beauty!!!! :drool: Jean

(now, for the joke one would ask: male or female ?)

 

[paphioboy]

out of this world blooms!

 

[biothanasis]

Fantastic!!!!!!!! :clap:

 

[fbrem]

awesome one Rick

 

[Mathias]

Fantastic flowers!! :clap::clap:

 

[Shiva]

Great job Rick! Nice flowers. Do they have a fragrance?

 

[SlipperFan]

These have to be among the weirdest flowers of all!

 

[Rick]

Great job Rick! Nice flowers. Do they have a fragrance?

Yes. Smells kind of like liquorice and antiseptic. On Sunday you pretty much had to stick your nose in the bucket to smell them. But this morning the whole GH was infused. Even with 3 open Bulbo echinolabium blooms!!

 

[Paph_LdyMacBeth]

Thank you, I will now be having killer-man eating orchid dreams. Seriously cool blooms, but they kinda give me the creeps

 

[Lycaste53]

Very nice, impressing flowers, I like this species and the fragrance.
I´m sure that the wedding was more exiting than the opening of the flowers!

 

[NYEric]

I would have brought the plant to the wedding, explaining how its blooming is like the opening of a new union!

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

Oh man, cool!!! Weirdest flower I've ever seen. :clap:

 

[Rick]

I would have brought the plant to the wedding, explaining how its blooming is like the opening of a new union!

You know Eric, we often think a like, and I'm wondering if you end up in as much trouble as me sometimes.

 

[NYEric]

Probably worse!

 

[Rick]

Holloween Cory

Here's a picture 3 or so days later, and it looks like one of the capsules is developing from the selfing.

 

[SlipperFan]

Yes, it does! :clap: