Sunday, June 27, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Spathoglottis plicata Blume 1825
This species is very common in Java island, and the Javanese has long ago been cultivating it as ornamental plant. The Javanese name it "anggrek tanah" which means "terrestial orchid". It is a little bit confusing since a lot of orchid are essentially terrestial-type, such as Calanthe sp, Phaius sp, Arachnis sp, and so on. However, the common understanding here in Java is, Spathoglottis = anggrek tanah = terrestial orchid. What about the other terrestial orchid? Go and find another term for them...:-)
I have three species of this Spathoglottis, the first is this one with white flower, the others are with white dark purple and yellow flower(Spathoglottis kimbaliana). The yellow one is very rare because I guess it is not native to Java (or Indonesia). But the white and the purple is easily found along the riverbank of wild forest at the mountain.
Phalaenopsis amabilis [L.] Blume 1825
This phalaenopsis is widely known in Indonesia as "moon orchid" because of its white color. It's easy to grow and has good adaptation for dry and hot temperature. Once it is attached to tree, it will grow happily and produce a lot of flower. Moon orchid is one of three national flowers beside Rafflesia arnoldii R.Br and jasminum sambac (L.)Aiton. A lot of hybrids come from this orchid, and therefore it has high economical value. It has reported that this phalaenopsis has several variants, and my collection comes from Java island
Arundina graminifolia [D Don] Hochr. 1910
This orchid, when it doesn't show its flower, will be likely mistankenly identified as grass or as such because its appearance has much resemblance with grass or any gramineae family. But sometimes closer look will find that this plant produce keikis on its cane, which is absolutely no sign of gramineae. At first I didn't believe at all that this is an orchid species, later friend of mine showed me some keikis near the top of the cane, and finally I believed that it is an orchid. And now, after saw the flower by myself, I know I like this flower, it is beautiful and looks like dendrobium.
Dendrobium discolor Lindley 1841
This species has three different colors as far as I know, first is with yellow-brown looks, the other comes with pale creamy white color, and the last one I found was with pale pink and white appearance. This one is the yellow-brown type, and last time it bloomed, it gave off four branches of flowers with contains ten to twelve flowers in each branch. The good thing about this species is that it could easily cultivate and could produce flower anytime in a year when it has sufficient sunlight and nutrition.
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