Post by dieter on Jan 3, 2014 11:02:44 GMT
Dear all,
I wish everyone a good start into 2014.
Recently, I posted these pictures in the GFP and CPUK forums, so they may look familiar to those of you who also visit those forums ;-)
I will start with a tuber forming orchid species. I obtained a single tuber about 1.5 years ago. The plant grew well during the previous winter and formed 5-8 tubers at the end of the growing season. This winter I have 5 plants and 4 of them are either already in flower or will start flowering soon.
This species just forms a pair of leaves which stay alive throughout the season and then a single flower stalk.
The flower obviously imitates some insect. Interestingly, it forms some tentacle-like structures as part of this.
Next I will show some pictures of my most advanced D. macrophylla ssp. monantha. This plant produces more than 30 flower stalks this season:
Meanwhile, the plant has grown further and the first flowers are likly to open some time next week.
If you check carefully, you will see that one flower stalk in the background carries three flower buds. It is a first time that I observe that behaviour for this form (usually this is one of the typical features for ssp. macrophylla).
Unfortunately, it currently seems that this plant is more or less the only D. macrophylla ssp. monantha which will flower this season.
Now a somewhat sorry looking plant. At the beginning of the season some kind of pest ate away large parts of the leaf surface. I was never able to find it. however.
Now back to some nice looking plants. Currently, some of my D. erythrorhiza ssp. squamosa are just looking great. This is the sand growing form:
Interestingly, outside of the reddish parts of the leaf no tentacles are formed. I remember that Sean Spence posted some pictures of forms which did bring this to the extremes and had nearly no tentacles at all.
Here is a different form. The colouration is just the other way around: reddish central parts and green outer parts of the leaves.
Finally an outlook to one of the next flowers::
This is a snapshot of the space for the (larger) climbing tuberous drosera species:
As the plants are difficult to identify on this shot, I give you a list of the species growing there:
6 pots with different D. macrantha ssp. macrantha (including 3 Rock Outcrop Form clones)
3 pots with different D. macrantha ssp. planchonii
3 pots with different D. modesta
3 pots with different D. (aff.) pallida, including those two on the right hand side.
The D. macrantha ssp. macrantha have partially started to flower, the ssp. planchonii and somewhat later the D. pallida will follow. Some of the D. pallida have more than 30 flower buds in development:
One of the D. pallida came too close to the lights and will therefore not flower, but the others will certainly make up for that!
In contrast to this, only very few flowers of the D. macrantha Rock Outcrop forms can be expected (all from the same clone).
I hope you like the pictures!
Cheers
Dieter
P.S. There are some more new pictures on my website and another update is in preparation.
I wish everyone a good start into 2014.
Recently, I posted these pictures in the GFP and CPUK forums, so they may look familiar to those of you who also visit those forums ;-)
I will start with a tuber forming orchid species. I obtained a single tuber about 1.5 years ago. The plant grew well during the previous winter and formed 5-8 tubers at the end of the growing season. This winter I have 5 plants and 4 of them are either already in flower or will start flowering soon.
This species just forms a pair of leaves which stay alive throughout the season and then a single flower stalk.
The flower obviously imitates some insect. Interestingly, it forms some tentacle-like structures as part of this.
Next I will show some pictures of my most advanced D. macrophylla ssp. monantha. This plant produces more than 30 flower stalks this season:
Meanwhile, the plant has grown further and the first flowers are likly to open some time next week.
If you check carefully, you will see that one flower stalk in the background carries three flower buds. It is a first time that I observe that behaviour for this form (usually this is one of the typical features for ssp. macrophylla).
Unfortunately, it currently seems that this plant is more or less the only D. macrophylla ssp. monantha which will flower this season.
Now a somewhat sorry looking plant. At the beginning of the season some kind of pest ate away large parts of the leaf surface. I was never able to find it. however.
Now back to some nice looking plants. Currently, some of my D. erythrorhiza ssp. squamosa are just looking great. This is the sand growing form:
Interestingly, outside of the reddish parts of the leaf no tentacles are formed. I remember that Sean Spence posted some pictures of forms which did bring this to the extremes and had nearly no tentacles at all.
Here is a different form. The colouration is just the other way around: reddish central parts and green outer parts of the leaves.
Finally an outlook to one of the next flowers::
This is a snapshot of the space for the (larger) climbing tuberous drosera species:
As the plants are difficult to identify on this shot, I give you a list of the species growing there:
6 pots with different D. macrantha ssp. macrantha (including 3 Rock Outcrop Form clones)
3 pots with different D. macrantha ssp. planchonii
3 pots with different D. modesta
3 pots with different D. (aff.) pallida, including those two on the right hand side.
The D. macrantha ssp. macrantha have partially started to flower, the ssp. planchonii and somewhat later the D. pallida will follow. Some of the D. pallida have more than 30 flower buds in development:
One of the D. pallida came too close to the lights and will therefore not flower, but the others will certainly make up for that!
In contrast to this, only very few flowers of the D. macrantha Rock Outcrop forms can be expected (all from the same clone).
I hope you like the pictures!
Cheers
Dieter
P.S. There are some more new pictures on my website and another update is in preparation.