WI Bloom

Wow, its beautiful GT.

Neat, isn't it? :-)

It's very pretty. Pitty it only lasts a few hours.

beautiful

What an astonishingly beautiful plant. I love it.

beautiful ,pity it only last a few hours Greenthumb....

Its taking everything I have not to camp out next to it and wait......lol. I'm hoping to see a few more blooms through the month.

I'm trying to visualize what it would be like in the wild...it would probably look like a ripple of growth...from the initial flower in the centre, to it's progeny in successive rings of blossom and new growth? are there many mother leaves on the outer regions of a clump of foliage? with concentric growth from the middle clump...to satellite clumps all around it?? That would be fantastic!

This does spread out like that. I've a new start I hadn't even cut in the fall that started blooming, then I cut it, it stopped....lol. I've read recommendations to treat it with more pourous substrate each year, I think it could climb around in moss and hummus like an orchid. Especially connected with the parent plant, that blooming start wasn't in soil, it was in the air.

Sounds like a really interesting plant, GT...will keep my eye out for it in the catalogues.

It resembles an orchid.

Seems to have a similar habit as well GG. Though not epiphytic, it doesn't require soil to grow, it is found nestled into moss of trees in nature like an orchid.