I am getting a new mystery plant....

[Faerygirl]

.....and the suspense is killing me!
I have a friend in Ohio who goes every year to a large orchid show that they have in her area. It was yesterday. For the past couple of years, we have placed "pre-orders" for plants with Ecuagenera in South America, who comes to this show, and they have brought our plants for her to pick up, and she then mails me mine.

She knows that I have been landscaping my 20 ft stream in my greenhouse with plants that grow in the water in the stream bed, so she asked Mike from Ecuagenera if they had any "stream plants". He said that yes, he had an aquatic ORCHID that commonly grows in the ditches in Ecuador with him, and she got it for me. She won't tell me the name. The only aquatic orchids I myself am familiar with are Habenarias or the Ghost Orchids (but the Ghosts aren't really aquatic). What do you think it could be??????

The plants should be here later this week, I am so excited I can't wait!

[cb977]

Very cool! I'm excited too!

Looking forward to

[Frdemetr]

At least one Galeandra species (Galeandra lacustris), despite described as epiphitic in IOSPE, grows in annually flooded grounds (Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia); I never saw this species; perhaps it survives on submerged/partially submerged branches, part of the year.
But I think the 'mystery plant' is an Habenaria.

Frederico

[Faerygirl]

OKay I have been enlightened that the plant I am to receive is Trichoceros onaensis. In looking up this Genus, I see that there are only 5 species. Of the 5, none are considered aquatic. I am wondering if they have the plant id's incorrectly...?