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WSBEorchids

Simon Pugh-Jones

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Teacher in charge of the Writhlington Orchid Project

Cymbidium erythrostylum- 365 days of orchids – day 1998

  Our second Cymbidium this week is Cymbidium erythrostylum. This small growing cymbidium is native to Vietnam where it grows in cool forests at around 1500m. We find this species very straight forward and reliable with the advantage of flowering relatively quickly from seed. The plant shown in the photograph flowered three years out of […]

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Phalaenopsis pulcherrima ‘coerulea’ – 365 days of orchids – day 1995

Our plants have coped with Mondays hot weather – here in Radstock the highest temperature recorded on our weather station was 34.7C and the greenhouse temperatures hit 39C Some of our plants positively enjoy the warm weather and one of them is  Phalaenopsis pulcherrima. This species, long known as Doritis pulcherrima, is unusual in so […]

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