Do you have a plant for sale or trade
which you cannot ship or do not want to bother shippping?
No problem.
Click here to make a local-only offer.
It's a free service to our members.
Pleuranthium scalpelligerum is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Cogn. in I.Urban in 1910. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Epidendrum scalpelligerum.
ORIGIN: Found infrequently in Cuba and Jamaica at elevations around 500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with arcuate, anicpitose stems enveloped completely by 4 to 5, non-articulate, distichous, conduplicate, laterally compressed, trangular, falcate, acute, thick-coriaceous leaves that blooms in the late fall and winter on a terminal, sessile, distichous, slender, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with imbricatiung, covering the flowers, similar to the leaves floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.128 inches [3.2 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Author is Ken Slump, posted over 3 years ago
Suggestions for Choosing Plants Requiring Minimal Care
THIS SEEMS LIKE AN IDEAL TOPIC for an article. Many of us want to enjoy orchid flowers with a minimum of fuss and I have found that most ...
Read More
Beginners Start Here
Author is Ken Slump, posted almost 4 years ago
A 12-Step Plan for Becoming a Successful Orchid Grower
IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE ORCHID hobby and perhaps feel you are not enjoying the success with your plants that you had hoped for, read throug...
Read More
Water: The Most Important Nutrient
Author is Roy Tokunaga, posted over 4 years ago
We take water for granted. It falls out of the sky. It flows from the faucet. Oahu city water is considered good for growing Orchids. We use it without thought or concern.
If you study orch...
Read More