Thursday, June 17, 2010
Encyclia Mary Motes (Encyclia alata x Encyclia plicata)
I purchased this plant two years ago. It was in a clay pot with lava rock as its media. I did not pay much for it because the plant was small and it looked sick. I continued to try to grow the plant in the pot in which I bought it. It kept looking worse and worse. So I took it out of the pot, trimmed off all of the dead roots, soaked it in Physan and then mounted it on a piece of tree fern plaque inside of a wooden basket. It was slow to get started, but new roots started to appear and during the first spring that I owned it, it had grown four new bulbs.
This spring flower spikes grew from each of the four new bulbs. The spikes are long (they vary between 2 1/2 feet to 4 1/2 feet long). The spikes have only these two blooms open right now which opened within the last day or two, but the plant has 143 buds.
I have been very curious as to what the blooms look like. I looked the plant up on Orchidwiz. It has information about the plant, but NO picture. I have also searched the web and have not been able to find a picture. Now I was REALLY curious. Most encyclias do not have spectacular blooms or colors. As encyclias go, this is an attractive blossom. My curiousity is finally satisfied.
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