Click here to see our latest addition of our Malaysian orchid species in full HD. These specially shot videos were done with the new Panasonic HD camcorder HDC TM300.
Orchidaceae Malaysiana Slide Show Part 8 added today.
Due to a technical error, we would only produce 9 slide shows in alphabetical order from A-Z.
We have now added :-
Part 7 today.
Kindly click on the respective parts to view accordingly. All music tracks are from Audio Swap and are pleasantly enjoyable. Hope you like it.
We will also add slide shows in future, for 11 other "best studied" species which we have the opportunity to do close observations for five years and more. That would mean five years of flowering, propagation, growth and characteristics cycles on record. These are all lesser known Orchid species of Malaysia.
Your comments and critique are most appreciated.
Thank you for dropping by.
Unlike to common lowland Cymbidium finlaysonianum, this species features heavy red and maroon colors and the flowers are somewhat smaller at sea level. This is from Gua Musang, Kelantan. The plant there have better showing with larger flowers and longer inflorescence stalk. We can conclude that it maybe due to the cooler weather there as compared with Klang's badly poluted air for the last 2 months.
[Kindly click here to start the slide show.]
This five minute show is part of our 20 in the series. Kindly give us your comments so that we would know if you are interested to see the rest of it. The Audio Swap music " Arianna" is by
Juliana and is from the 'Woman Wisdom' album.
Many shots are done in-situ in the wild of Malaysia. The rest are from our collection. All pictures are in high resolution. The Bulbophyllum above is shot on HD.
Enjoy.
Our Vanda helvola is a very large plant and with its irratic flowering seasons make this a difficult specie to deal with and that is why not much is being used for crossings. This plant also do not grow well at sea level unless it is specially grown in a cold room environment.
It if found growing in hugh colonies on vertical limestone cliffs embedded with old roots of large timber trees. The ones we witnessed consisted of over a hundred plants!
This is a collectors' Masterpiece but with almost total clearing at the highlands, It is going to be very difficult to obtain. Some young hobbyists should ponder into getting the seed pods and artificially propagate to increase its survival so that many collectors can appriciate such Rare Malaysian Species.
Tribe GASTRODIEAE Lindl., the Nervilia aragoana is a free flowering species and when grown altogether in a large pot, the cluster seems to be flowering all the time.
The single plant have its season and the flower will only appear after the large leaf dries off. It propagates via seed pods and its rhizomic shoots featuring a single, sometimes very large tuber.
It is common that this species hibernates for a period of 3-4 months.
The new leaves have purple spots but dissapears when fully grown.
The inflorescence is about 28cm tall bearing an average 5 greenish flowers with white hairy lip. Our discovery of this species was in the late 80s in Gua Musang, Kelantan while clearing our land for Cocoa plantings. We stopped and dug out this species to be planted on a reserved area. It has already overgrown its area during the entire period of 20 years.
It is very easy to grow here in Klang. It need 60% shading grown on slightly clayish soil topped with heavy leaf litter. It do not take kindly of chemicals especially fertilisers and fungicides.
We use only 'guano' (Bat droppings) every month. Sprinkling of fine limestones also helps for robust growth.
It can do well in shaded landscaping.
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I picked up a large fallen tree trunk with many other species such as the common Pigeon Orchid (Dendrobium crumenatum) I noticed the significant difference by its pseudobulb which is squarish and short compared to the common brethen. It was not flowering then but only 2 years later under cultivation. It is not commonly found in nurseries or collections except those who are keen in such rare beauties.blog.jpg)
We like the flower shape which is so prominent and proudly, a Dendrobium. Perhaps someone could look into this for hybridization.
The picture was taken in Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Malaysia.
This discription is not confirmed. I suspect it to be Coel. salmonicolor. Anyone can assist?
The colors and pattern of the flowers appears on the 'outside' rather than on the inside as in all orchids!
Does well on lowlands but with medium shade.
This in-situ shot was captured last week in Genting Highlands and was flowering profusely. Our collected species from Gunong Stong, Kelantan, have not flowered for the last ten years although new plants were produced. The entire clump is healthy and getting larger but it did not flower at all.
This 'Dendrobium' look alike could be hybridized with other genus to produce some good flowers and was wondering anyone did it although someone did suggest doing so.
