Brassia verrucosa

[hcubed]

Funny, mine started blooming literally 2 days ago! I've actually grown to like the scent. :-)

[panam]

Goodness, it looks like it has warts! These are so interesting.

[hcubed]

That is actually what the names means, I believe. "warty"

[hcubed]

Definition of VERRUCOSE
: covered with warty elevations
First Known Use of VERRUCOSE
1686

[devasha]

Very pretty, love the bumps!

[Dorsetman]

Can't wait for mine to bloom. Can you tell me when they bloom? I've had mine since July last year. The orchid plant has doubled in size, but no flower yet? It is kept in the greenhouse, with 50% shadecloth. Should it have more light?

I think it needs a short rest , although if growing strongly it often spikes a bit prematurely, before the bulb is properly made up. I also recall that it used to do well in my cool - to intermediate house, and likes it less in my intermediate- to - warm house. So a bit fussy. But we often see specimens with a dozen spikes at the shows here in England.

[Hemde]

Can't wait for mine to bloom. Can you tell me when they bloom? I've had mine since July last year. The orchid plant has doubled in size, but no flower yet? It is kept in the greenhouse, with 50% shadecloth. Should it have more light?

I think it needs a short rest , although if growing strongly it often spikes a bit prematurely, before the bulb is properly made up. I also recall that it used to do well in my cool - to intermediate house, and likes it less in my intermediate- to - warm house. So a bit fussy. But we often see specimens with a dozen spikes at the shows here in England.

- From my point of view, Geoff is right, this species requires a rest period (February-March), with lower temperatures, after growth of bulbs to bloom.

[TwoStems]

Simply stunning! The raised spots are really different!

[rosie]

- From my point of view, Geoff is right, this species requires a rest period (February-March), with lower temperatures, after growth of bulbs to bloom.

Thanks Geoff, Daniel. As it is Autumn here in Oz. I will try to give it a cooler area in the shadehouse. A lower shelf, perhaps. Temps. here during day about 23 C. (down to 12 - 15 C overnight)

[Dorsetman]

Thanks Geoff, Daniel. As it is Autumn here in Oz. I will try to give it a cooler area in the shadehouse. A lower shelf, perhaps. Temps. here during day about 23 C. (down to 12 - 15 C overnight)

Its the night temp' which is important - you want the bottom end of that range in in my book - 12 rather than 15. A few degrees can be so critical. It is interesting if you get the chance to walk up a hill in a rain forest and see orchids - you find that at one height one species appears, and maybe as little as 50 feet higher, it disappears , and you can't see any difference - but as you go up it gets cooler, and the orchids know the difference ...
You can see Dendrobium infundibulum - or something very much like it, growing terrestrially, on the main road up the highest hill/mountain in Thailand - Doi Inthanon ( from memory) and it grows at the side of the road for just about 100-200 yards, as you go gently up ( you are in a National Park, so don't collect - unless you want to learn about Thailand Gaols at first hand ) . That sticks in my memory - as all my fortunate discoveries of orchids in the wild do , far more than what I was doing yesterday ! This is one of the pleasures (?) of growing old I guess...memories like that