>Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:53:25 -0700 (PDT) >From: michael timmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [OGD] Cymbidium canaliculatum >Does anyone know where I can purchase a Cymbidium >canaliculatum? Found several places in Australia that >export to the USA; however, the price of paperwork and >shipping is prohibitively expensive. I'd be interested >in hearing from any growers who also might either have >this plant for sale or have information regarding its >ease (or difficulty) of culture. Thank you!
Michael Cymbidium canaliculatum grows freely around my part of the world, as Steve Kemp said, mainly in cracks of dead hardwood trees (we call it Ironbark it is so hard) with the roots going into the rotting heart. Since the trees are dead, there is absolutely no shade and our summer heat here is regularly 40 deg C. In winter we can get down to 2 deg. C early mornings but the daytime temp is usually around 20 deg C. We are on the Tropic of Capricorn here (equates with your Tropic of Cancer running between the tip of Florida and Cuba), so there is a high light intensity as well. The leaves of this orchid have adapted to the harsh environment and are stiff and leathery. Timber getters often cut down the dead trees and slice a section of the tree holding the plant into a block. That way they don't need to be repotted as it takes many years for this particular wood to decompose. Whether you can grow it or not depends on how much you can replicate this environment. Having said that I have seen one flower in a glasshouse in New Zealand even if the flower scape was short in length and in the number of flowers. Sorry I can't help you with a supplier in the US. Colin Hamilton Webmaster Australian Orchid Council/"OrchidsAustralia" Rockhampton, Qld. Australia www.orchidsaustralia.com You were sent here as a warning to others, weren't you. _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
