Ornithophora radicans
In 2014 Pahoa was threatened by a lava flow.
A grower in the projected lava path began selling off as much of his stock as he could.
I went in a few times buying up fairly large quantities of varieties of his orchids.
I picked up the Dendrochilums I just posted about in another thread, many others and this Ornithophora radicans.
Per IOSPE, this belongs to the Oncidiinae Subtribe.
As luck turned out, the lava flow stopped before it reached his place.
But, I made out like a bandit.
This one was one of my prides.
I almost lost it to the gasses evolved by the 2018 eruption about a mile from here.
Like many of our fruit trees and such, this one took about 2 years to begin looking as if it might recover.
It was originally a dense covering on the raft.
The remaining clumps, after dying back, have begun to regenerate.
Hopefully, It'll again cover the entire top of the raft.
|
Linear Mode
