its gonna be awesome! Aerides and their counterparts are really nice plants....this one easy to grow in a temperate climate?
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Buds a day or two before they open.
And the spent flowers. They look like this usually at around 10AM.
its gonna be awesome! Aerides and their counterparts are really nice plants....this one easy to grow in a temperate climate?
Hello Jordan. I'm not sure with this unguiculatum in a temperate setting. This one loves bright, indirect sunlight, lots of heat, and lots of water. It doesn't seem to have a "dormant" period, grows throughout the year, and is in bloom every other month or so.
sounds like my kind of orchid, if only it was cooler......thats all i can really grow you see.
Woo-hoo!! I'm going to have to look for this one. Water I can provide. Sunlight and heat I've got. Constant flowers I love! Thanks for the info - I must go shopping now!
Pteroceras unguiculatum is to me one of the two most underrated orchids in the Philippines, the other being Ceraia simplicissima (Dendrobium crumenatum). They are so common and widespread that a lot of keepers plainly ignores them. And yet, make no mistake about it, I do love these plants. Not only are the blooms quite sizable- around 3 cm across for P. unguiculatum and 5 cm for C. simplicissima- but they are intensely sweetly scented. The frequent flowering of these species compensates the fugacious nature of the flowers.
Very well grown Angel. I can see the plant is very robust and it looks so attractive with all those roots.
Its a nice thing to have ; the short flowering is not all bad ; a good talking point when you have a visitor - I have several things I'll never take out of the greenhouse, but which are good to see when I am in there, for whatever reason.
Beautiful. Now only if I could find one here