orchid identification needed

[Tmai]

Maybe a bamboo orchid? A friend brought me one from Hawaii. She said they are one of the first plants to colonize on lava flows there.

Good to have you back, Pat!

Tami

[wetfeet101b]

Maybe a bamboo orchid? A friend brought me one from Hawaii. She said they are one of the first plants to colonize on lava flows there.

Good to have you back, Pat!

Tami

Definitely not an Arundina. The foliage of the "bamboo orchid" resembles tall grass or corn stalk.

The plant pictured appears to be closer (physically) to a vandaceous group or maybe an old world epidendrum.

~John

[Tmai]

Definitely not an Arundina. The foliage of the "bamboo orchid" resembles tall grass or corn stalk.

The plant pictured appears to be closer (physically) to a vandaceous group or maybe an old world epidendrum.

~John

Ah. You are right. I was looking at the wrong thing in the picture. Lovely garden!

[clintdawley]

It's a renanthera cross of some type...

[Mahon]

Thanks BD and Tami! It's been a while, but I am finally situated at a Naval Base here in Chicago...

Ah, I was looking at the wrong orchid too! Is it the tall thing that looks like a stick? I'd have no idea then... :P

-PM