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Your smallest orchid
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Posted by heth 6 (My Page) on Fri, Oct 30, 09 at 11:29
| A wile ago someone asked how big your largest orchid was, so what about your smallest? Flower size, Plant height, leaf length, ext. |
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RE: Your smallest orchid
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| Schoenorchis fragrans, a vanda relative all of an inch tall or so. But I'm interested in obtaining bulbophyllum minutissimum, a plant on the order of millimeters. Smallest flower would be the schoenorchis also. |
RE: Your smallest orchid
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| It is Dendrobium lichenastrum, a fragrant Australian species with 1/4" flowers and 1/2" leaves. I have it in bloom right now and have tried to get a flower picture, but no luck so far. |
RE: Your smallest orchid
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- Posted by ttkidd Toronto ON (My Page) on
Fri, Oct 30, 09 at 12:49
| Aerangis pumilio. It hasn't flowered yet for me, but from the few dead spikes it has on it, it has flowered a few times before. The entire plant is about the diameter of a quarter. Tyler |
RE: Your smallest orchid
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| Pleurothallis microphylla. The entire growth, leaf and stem, is less than 1cm, about 5/16ths of an inch. |
RE: Your smallest orchid
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| Bulbophyllum shepherdii has tiny orange flowers 2mm x 1mm, there is a photo of the plant on the orchid mounting thread. |
RE: Your smallest orchid
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| Lepanthes telipogonaflora probably takes the cake, you could sneeze and blow it to nether regions. Lepanthes tenticulata, Aerangis punctata, Meiracyllium trinasutum, Dendrobium cuthbertsonii, Psychopsiella limminghei, Pteroceras semiteretifolium are all super tiny like nickel sized. |
RE: Your smallest orchid
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| I suppose i can cope with inches but now we have nickel sized. The flowers of Dendrobium cuthbertsonii are not especially small. Sorry, Lepanthes telipogonaflora hasn't taken the cake. it has got the wooden spoon. A search of that unreliable source the internet suggests the flowers are sized at 1.25 centimeters. Any "advance" on 2mm? Actually the local orchid society has benching class for orchids where the individual flowers are less than 10mm. Most of the plants benched in that section have long racemes with many tiny individual flowers. I grow Bulbophyllum shepherdii for the interesting leaves rather than the flowers.
Some Orchid Societies provide a glass for this Benching Class so that you can see the flower details. |
RE: Your smallest orchid
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| I do have a smaller plant than the Pleuro microphylla. It is my Barbosella dusenii. The growths are 1/4" tall yet the flower is much bigger than you would expect. It's related to Pleuros. When it comes to small flowers, I have fairly big plants with flowers too small to even measure, like Angraecum subulatum. |
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