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inombrable · #1 01-31-2016, 07:29 PM

Same as the last one i just posted, i got it a couple of months ago. Flowers are very small around 8mm in size.

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inombrable · #2 01-31-2016, 08:27 PM

Forgot to post a picture of the plant itself.

Roberta · #3 01-31-2016, 08:46 PM

The plant clinches it... I would strongly suspect Maxillaria densa. Here's a link to the photo of mine on my website.http://orchidcentral.org/Images/Zygo...ax%20densa.jpg

inombrable · #4 01-31-2016, 11:32 PM

Indeed, spot on!!!!

BTW your plant looks in great shape (unlike mine)!!!!

Thank you so much again !!!

Roberta · #5 01-31-2016, 11:51 PM

Next year... the flowers do not last very long. You will be able to catch them when they are fresh, they will look much better!

estación seca · #6 02-01-2016, 01:21 AM

I haven't grown it, but it looks like it grows in a linear fashion up a tree. Roberta's plant is growing this way. Orchids tend to produce roots only from the newest growth and not from older growths.

If this plant is potted like yours it looks like it is doomed to die, since new roots will only come from the growing tip, which is waving in the air. Can you instead mount it on a piece of branch?

Roberta · #7 02-01-2016, 01:34 AM

Actually, mine is in a pot (I got it as a division that had been cut off a larger plant and just put it in pot with medium bark) and then I added a slab of hapu'u (tree fern). It has not really gown into that, it just holds the climbing growths up but a stake would do just as well. Some of these Maxillarias with those "climbing pseudobulbs" just grow that way. (Max. tenuifolia has a similar habit). The one caution is that you do not want to remove the brown sheaths between the pseodobulbs, even though they aren't attractive. They protect roots that run all the way down to the media. Removal of those "ugly sheaths" can kill the plant. I think that plant will be OK. In fact, the one that is brown at the bottom could be potted deeper into the media so that the roots at the base of the lowest p-bulb definitely are where they can get moisture and grow. It looks a bit dehydrated, but it can certainly revive

inombrable · #8 02-01-2016, 02:20 AM

Estacion Seca, good observation, it needs to get a support as you just mentioned (and it will), it was mounted when i bought it but i am still trying to configure my sapce to allocate my orchids (is a new house).

Roberta, yes it looks dehidrated, in fact i am surprised it survived and flowered that fast and easy. I bought it in a local christmas market in a park next to my home and these plants are brought in a trash bag (all in mounts) from a place 3-4 hours from here and then they stay in the cold and with no water at all for about a month or more, i got it on sale in fact as the sellers were leaving in 2 days back home and they didn't wanted to take them back with them. I got at the same time 2 more NOIDs in terrible shape, fortunatelly one of them has already a new growth, the other one was very small and is not looking very good.