Warning: Actual on-topic orchid-related text below... Has anyone on the list ever seen Coryanthes species blooming in nature? I am curious to know the orientation of the plant and inflorescence. I am currently growing two Coryanthes species (C. elegantium and C. thivii). Both species produce an inflorescence that grows out from the plant horizontally or partially erect. If I negelect to stake the inflorescence the weight of the flowers breaks it. How do they avoid this problem in the wild? Since Coryanthes are ant-garden plants, I imagine that they would often grow on top of horizontal branches. In that case, a plant in a basket would be in approximately the same orientation as a wild plant.
So how do they do it? Nick -- Nicholas Plummer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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