Hello, Howard. Glad to see new video! Your orchids are gorgeous as always! I have a little advice. If the title of the video is "Episode 29. Laelia autumnalis, platystele orectoglossa" more people will find the video. We usually search for information about orchids by their name.
Beautiful orchid, UK must have so many slugs and snails, maybe all the skinks I have keep those beasties numbers down. The little orchids are so dainty, just lovely
Hi Mr Howard, your platystele is stunning and super cute. Too bad it's cool growing. I realise many minis tend to be cool growing. Do you grow any macrochilium? I think they are really beautiful. I have killed mine, yet to try again. Thank you once again for the lovely sharing.
Good morning. Beautiful orchid. I also have Laelia gouldiana but mine bloomed a while ago. I always was under impression that laelia gouldiana and Laelia autumnalis are different species
Thanks Tantija. It's a really beautiful orchid with a lovely scent. Although, since posting the video, I've discovered that there's a lot more to the naming and classification of this group of orchids than I realised!
Yes, cool and moist as far as possible. Mine would probably grow much better if it was consistently cooler and moister but it seems to be much more tolerant than many other cloud forest orchids.
Hi Howard, I’m getting into mini-miniature orchids and miniatures, I purchased a Lepanthes Ova-Rajae and a L. Guatemalensis. Do you have any Lepanthes? I appreciate you showing also your miniatures. For the last plant I can’t answer unfortunately but it looks really nice, I can suggest you to ask Reddit (in orchid subreddit). There might be someone who knows there. I’m looking forward for the next video
The Laelia is stunning, but it’s not a autumnalis but gouldiana! The bulbs lack the extra nodes and the leaves are too rigid. But the main giveaway are the beautiful flowers themselves; the red lines on the callus, which autumnalis lack. Stunning nonetheless!
Looks like you're correct!. This is one of the benefits of UA-cam. Thanks for commenting. I have corrected the information as best I can. Have you grown both x gouldiana and autumnalis? If so how do they compare, especially for scent?
@@HowardRice I can’t tell you about the scent, yet! I do grow both, but the autumnalis (var. atrorubens) hasn’t flowered yet opposed to the gouldiana, but the plants look substantially different from one another; the bulbs are more squat, have more nodes, wrinkle different & the leaves are more arching and bendy. Hopefully upcoming season it will be strong enough to bloom! Ps. there is a very handy pdf to be found on the web about the classification of Mexican Laelias!
Hello Howard, Laelia anceps is a very complex species that is considered by some biologists to belong to a different genus (Amalia) it has four sub species from different parts in mexico to Guatemala that grow from cool cloud forests to drier oak forests. Perhaps the specimen at the botanical gardens is a pseudo hybrid as it looks to have attributes from different sub species. In Mexico, they flower right in time for the day of the dead, and the flowers are paraded through town. You should check out Laelia furfuracea!
Many thanks for that additional information. I also found a really useful UA-cam video from someone in Mexico who had filmed L. autumnalis growing on oak trees in the wild and he was bemoaning the fact that they are heavily collected. I watched it using auto-translate for the captions which isn't perfect but I could understand most of it. I don't know what the source of the L. anceps in Cambridge Botanic Gardens was. The accession number dates it to 1994.
That tiny orchid is the most precious thing ever!!!!!!!
Great video again. Congratulations on getting a thousand sucribers
Hello, Howard. Glad to see new video! Your orchids are gorgeous as always! I have a little advice. If the title of the video is "Episode 29. Laelia autumnalis, platystele orectoglossa" more people will find the video. We usually search for information about orchids by their name.
Thanks Kate. Whoops! I forgot but I've amended the title now!
Beautiful orchid, UK must have so many slugs and snails, maybe all the skinks I have keep those beasties numbers down. The little orchids are so dainty, just lovely
Thank you for the informative info,will apply it my Laelia autummalis care,especially the winter light
Wonderful video, thank you!
Hi Mr Howard, your platystele is stunning and super cute. Too bad it's cool growing. I realise many minis tend to be cool growing. Do you grow any macrochilium? I think they are really beautiful. I have killed mine, yet to try again. Thank you once again for the lovely sharing.
Good morning. Beautiful orchid. I also have Laelia gouldiana but mine bloomed a while ago. I always was under impression that laelia gouldiana and Laelia autumnalis are different species
Thanks Tantija. It's a really beautiful orchid with a lovely scent. Although, since posting the video, I've discovered that there's a lot more to the naming and classification of this group of orchids than I realised!
That miniature is adorable! It grows on the cooler side, i assume...?
Yes, cool and moist as far as possible. Mine would probably grow much better if it was consistently cooler and moister but it seems to be much more tolerant than many other cloud forest orchids.
Congrats on the Laelia autumnali. Informative video.
Interesting, particularly love the miniature.😊
Love the platystele, putting it on my list! Thanks for your great info.
I keep my autumnalis outside in the summer as well. Lovely plant.
Lovely. Congratulations on your increasing subscribers. 🙂
Hi Howard, I’m getting into mini-miniature orchids and miniatures, I purchased a Lepanthes Ova-Rajae and a L. Guatemalensis. Do you have any Lepanthes? I appreciate you showing also your miniatures. For the last plant I can’t answer unfortunately but it looks really nice, I can suggest you to ask Reddit (in orchid subreddit). There might be someone who knows there.
I’m looking forward for the next video
The Laelia autumnalis looks great, I have Laelia gouldiana in my collection which looks similar and has just finished blooming, it is also scented.
The Laelia is stunning, but it’s not a autumnalis but gouldiana! The bulbs lack the extra nodes and the leaves are too rigid. But the main giveaway are the beautiful flowers themselves; the red lines on the callus, which autumnalis lack.
Stunning nonetheless!
Looks like you're correct!. This is one of the benefits of UA-cam. Thanks for commenting. I have corrected the information as best I can. Have you grown both x gouldiana and autumnalis? If so how do they compare, especially for scent?
@@HowardRice I can’t tell you about the scent, yet! I do grow both, but the autumnalis (var. atrorubens) hasn’t flowered yet opposed to the gouldiana, but the plants look substantially different from one another; the bulbs are more squat, have more nodes, wrinkle different & the leaves are more arching and bendy. Hopefully upcoming season it will be strong enough to bloom!
Ps. there is a very handy pdf to be found on the web about the classification of Mexican Laelias!
Hello Howard, Laelia anceps is a very complex species that is considered by some biologists to belong to a different genus (Amalia) it has four sub species from different parts in mexico to Guatemala that grow from cool cloud forests to drier oak forests. Perhaps the specimen at the botanical gardens is a pseudo hybrid as it looks to have attributes from different sub species. In Mexico, they flower right in time for the day of the dead, and the flowers are paraded through town. You should check out Laelia furfuracea!
Many thanks for that additional information. I also found a really useful UA-cam video from someone in Mexico who had filmed L. autumnalis growing on oak trees in the wild and he was bemoaning the fact that they are heavily collected. I watched it using auto-translate for the captions which isn't perfect but I could understand most of it. I don't know what the source of the L. anceps in Cambridge Botanic Gardens was. The accession number dates it to 1994.