Simon Pugh-Jones
Teacher in charge of the Writhlington Orchid Project
Teacher in charge of the Writhlington Orchid Project
Cymbidium dayanum is a very graceful warm growing Cymbidium native to lowland forests from Sikkim in the west to Japan in the east and south through South East Asia to the Philippines and Malaysia. Plants are reported to grow low down on trunks in evergreen forests where conditions will be shaded and humid. Compared […]
Tricholglottis pusilla today March 20th (Day 79) One of the really useful things to come out of our 365 days of orchids is producing an accurate record of flowering times and those wonderful orchid species that flower more than one each year. A great example is Trichoglottis pussila (above) that featured in March during its […]
This is the eighth Aerangis species to appear in 365 days and is the one we find the easiest to succeed with. It is a species from Central and West Africa where it grows in deep shade in woodland up to 700m altitude. The large leaves are a deep green again indicating a plant […]
The World Orchid Conference opens in Ecuador on the 7th November and Jacob Coles is now flying out to represent the Orchid Project and present his talk ‘Orchid Conservation the Writhlington Way’. We wish him luck and look forward to his posts from the conference.
Tonight is firework night so a small oncidium exploding with flowers seems very appropriate. Oncidium longipes is a Brazilian species and we saw it growing in the forests around Macae de Cima in our school visits to Brazil in 2000 and 2006. It is restricted to primary forests and grows in the mid canopy amongst other epiphytes […]