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| The commonly seen Mediocalcar is Mediocalcar decoratum, see: http://www.orchidspecies.com/mediocalcdecoratum.htm which has an orange body with a yellow fringe. Less commonly seen is Mediocalcar versteegii which has a red body and a white frindge, see: http://www.orchidspecies.com/medioversteegii.htm. I have them both and the orange/red coloration of the body is true to form. The fringe, on the other hand, is yellow on both plants. The growth habit is totally different, M decoratum makes a mat, like a small leaved ice plant, M versteegii has a more rambling habit with a larger space between leaves. There can be no confusion between the two because of this and I'm sure my plants are labelled correctly. It could be a natural hybrid with the plant showing traits of the 2 species. I have searched for a M versteegii with white fringe but have been unable to find one at this time. Does anyone grow one with the distinctive white? I would love to trade you for a small piece of it, I have 2 plants of the M versteegii (red body, yellow fringe)so could offer one of them if so desired. Does anyone grow another species of the genus? Nick |
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- Posted by Greencurls Z5 (My Page) on Sun, Jan 27, 13 at 17:03
| Hi Nick. I do not grow any Mediocalar. But I did see that JLOrchids has a Mediocalar bifolium. It is red and white with a rambling growth habit. JL has 20% off their entire stock right now too if you are interested. |
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- Posted by orchidnick z9Ca (orchidnick@yahoo.com) on Mon, Jan 28, 13 at 0:06
| Thanks for the lead, I got the versteegii from them a year ago. I could swear the picture then showed a white fringe as does Jay Phal on his page but I am not sure. I'll get on of the bifolims and see how that turns out. Nick |
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- Posted by Greencurls Z5 (My Page) on Mon, Jan 28, 13 at 19:19
| That seems strange. Maybe JL can help you find one with the white fringe. Or at least they can tell you how theirs bloomed out. |
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- Posted by orchidnick z9Ca (orchidnick@yahoo.com) on Mon, Jan 28, 13 at 20:22
| I talked to J&L, they say it has a yellow fringe, bifolium is white. The confusion is that Jay Phal's site and others on the google list show it white. One person has one with a green fringe. Not the first time there is divergence in descriptions by various sources. I wanted to see if any of the members grew it and what their color is, no luck so far. Nick |
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- Posted by orchidnick z9Ca (orchidnick@yahoo.com) on Sat, Feb 2, 13 at 0:16
| I have a second M versteegii, won it at a raffle, no idea where it came from. Same growth habit, it just bloomed for the first time. Body of the flower is a deep red, the fringe is pale green, very attractive. I have read that they can start out green and become yellow prior to fading but the other one started yellow and stayed yellow until fading. No such confusion about the others, decoratums are orange/yellow, no ifs or buts there. Nick |
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| Hi Nick, cannot shed much light but the RHS has five varieties of your mystery orchid on Genera Mediocalcar search. Link below. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Mediocalcar species list
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| Nick, For what it is worth, they showed a versteegii in the February Orchids magazine that sure looked red/white. It was a sub-species called vulcanicum. (I'll double check this when I get home tonight) There seems to be some confusion on the web about this sub-species also, I see pics of both white and yellow fringed plants. Good luck, Bob |
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| Here you go. Handy tool. Find spelling errors, synonyms. etc. Just enter the genera name. (link in an above post) Mediocalcar versteegii J.J.Sm., Bull. D�p. Agric. Indes N�erl. 19: 28 (1908). |
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- Posted by orchidnick z9Ca (orchidnick@yahoo.com) on Tue, Feb 5, 13 at 15:46
| The one I got from J&L is subs versteegii and it has the yellow lip. Subsp vulcanicum then has the white lip. I won another Mediocalar versteegii from a raffle table and it just bloomed for the first time, it's green color intensified and it is a definite green just like the picture on Jay Phal's site. http://www.orchidspecies.com/orphotdir/medverstegsubsintermedium.jpg There is another subspecies called amphigenium, have not found a picture of that one yet. Beginning to make sense. Nick |
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