A couple of mazzies
Masdevallia Mars - the red one ; acquired as an 8 leaf division a few months ago ; now settling down and producing several new leaves. Will be nice if it produces a batch of these flopwers altogether , when a bit larger as a plant.
Masd tovarensis ( meaning from the place Tovar in Venezuela ) . Bought as a rubbish plant , three clumps of leaves, no roots, for less than a dollar at a sale ; I wired it to a block of wood, and buried that in medium bark. That was almost a year ago. Rooting nicely and well on the way to recovery. Flowers could be a bit larger, but that will come. This is in a section of this very large genus - 600+ species - which used to be called triquetrous, meaning triangular cross section flower spike stems . Theyall - in this section- flower for several years from the same stem . Nice !
WE don't see a lot of mazzies here in this forum , I guess they are mostly cool or even cold growing, so not many members have suitable conditions. But there are a few which like my cattleya/vanda conditions as you can see. In the past I had a 12 foot x 10 foot greenhouse filled with them, but I wanted to grow Vandas, so I sold the lot, put in more heaters, and that was my first Vanda house, But now the wheel is coming full circle, and I find big saucer flowers a bit too much "in my face" - so their numbers are shrinking, which makes room for more exciting things. Cest la vie as they say across the ( English) Channel.
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) *sigh* Unfortunately, most of the brilliantly colored masdies -- like your red one -- require conditions far cooler than I can provide. 
Originally Posted by mazlani
