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Dollythehun 03-22-2017 07:13 PM

Epidendrum radicans 'Pinky'
 
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In the spring of 2015 I found a basket of this on a supplier's greenhouse floor. He gave me a chunk. Some one else identified it for me. It has just grown since then. I put it under a cheap grow light this fall and now have 4 scapes soon to bloom and maybe more to come.

It gets bright light, water and fert sometimes and otherwise benign neglect. Easy and adaptable...but not floofy.

Bohata 03-22-2017 07:35 PM

But it blooms so much more constantly than "floofys"!
Nice color!

Dollythehun 03-22-2017 08:26 PM

Something to be said for easy and rewarding, huh?😁

jkofferdahl 03-22-2017 09:06 PM

Absolutely lovely! I'm a big fan of Epis.

estación seca 03-22-2017 10:12 PM

Really nice color!

I remember seeing flower beds full of reed-stem Epis in coastal southern California when I was a kid. They were mostly a yellow-orange-red variety.

Watch carefully for spider mites. They love these.

Fernando 03-23-2017 05:50 AM

Nice, but no 'radicans'. More like a secundum-hybrid.
They flower all year round ... well, more or less. Sometimes they take a sabbatical, too!

Dollythehun 03-23-2017 09:30 AM

It came without any name. An orchid dealer suggested it was radicans. Thanks for the info, Fernando, I'll look into that.
The original plant was collected by a Purdue professor who obtained it (I understand) from their native habitat where they grow like weeds (and are mowed off by brush hogs).

From another site, Phapmadman says: "Epi. radicans should typically have relatively abundant roots along the stem, and most other reed-stems will be more limited to roots only at the base - a relative difference, not absolute..." this plants has abundant stem roots.

Fernando 03-23-2017 01:12 PM

That would be radicans, indeed. As far as I know, radicans is semi-resupinate, not like the flowers in your photo.
Alas - it's beautiful as it is.

Mountaineer370 03-23-2017 02:30 PM

What a beautiful springtime burst of color!

Dollythehun 03-23-2017 03:01 PM

I see your point. Apparently there is a lot of breeding being done.
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