Corybas hispidus 'Red'

[Mafate]

Hello all, here is a Corybas hispidus 'Red', from Australia, which is blooming at the moment.

To give you the scale, its leaf is 14 mm wide.














At sunset:

 

[Tom-DE]

Very nice! Not an easy genus to cultivate, who knew! you can grow them on "rocks" considering they grow on thick live moss in nature.

 

[emydura]

Lovely. I did supposedly get tubers of this clone, but when they flowered, they were just the normal species. Very disappointing.

Very nice! Not an easy genus to cultivate, who knew! you can grow them on "rocks" considering they grow on thick live moss in nature.

This is a very easy species to grow. No more difficult than the fast multiplying Greenhoods.

 

[NYEric]

This is a very easy species to grow. No more difficult than the fast multiplying Greenhoods.

Haahaaahaa. No, not easy.

 

[BrucherT]

Hello all, here is a Corybas hispidus 'Red', from Australia, which is blooming at the moment.

To give you the scale, its leaf is 14 mm wide.

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At sunset:
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Oh wow. This bloodcolored jewel just shot to the top of my list! Where do you get them? Emydura says they’re easy… how easy? How do you do it? Congratulations!

 

[BrucherT]

Lovely. I did supposedly get tubers of this clone, but when they flowered, they were just the normal species. Very disappointing.



This is a very easy species to grow. No more difficult than the fast multiplying Greenhoods.

I became avaricious the moment I saw the pics here; how do you grow them?

 

[Tom-DE]

It might be difficult for many people but it is easy for certain individuals, and that is the truth for any species.

 

[emydura]

I think people are mistaking these for the Asian tropical Corybas which are much more difficult and require really specialised conditions. There are a few Australian temperate species of Corybas which are much more adaptable. Corybas hispidus in particular is one of the easiest Australian terrestrials. The tubers multiply rapidly. They will grow well in any sort of free draining terrestrial mix. They like a bit more shade than say the Pterostylis. Humidity can be important when the flower buds are developing, otherwise they can easily blast. I generally grow mine in a big fish tank when they are in bud.