Peter O'Byrne wrote: > the inflorescence on your E. petersii is unlikely to > reach 3 meters long, but 2 meters is quite possible.
Still quite impressive for a relatively small plant; mine is about 8 inches tall (psuedobulbs + leaves). > It is interesting that so many people report their cultivated plants > flowering without forming catch-roots; this rather suggests that the > plant makes catch-roots in response to ant nests, not vice-versa. FWIW, my Ansellia africana just finished blooming with nary a catch-root in sight. Maybe I should ecourage some of the ants living in my hydnophytums to move over to an orchid pot and see what happens! Does anyone know if orchids that house ants within their pseudobulbs also produce catch roots? Since the plant isn't rooting into an ant nest, one might predict no. How about "trash basket" Anthuriums? At they associated with ants? Nick -- Nicholas Plummer [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
