Monday, October 26, 2015
Trisetella hoeijeri
Trisetella hoeijeri is a tiny species from Ecuador that was once classified as Masdevallia. Most of the Trisetellas
have small reddish-brown flowers with short tails, but this one,
obviously, is different. The plant is a few centimeters tall and the
flowers are 4 cm from tip to tip. The plant should be grown mounted and cool with plenty of water. For some reason my plant only produced a couple of flowers this winter and probably needs just a little more light.
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by far my favourite Trisetella! I saw hundreds of them in situ, sadly not in the blooming period...
ReplyDeleteIn my experience they bloom in several flushes beginning in autumn, so you still may have a bigger blooming a bit later ;-)
Thanks, Laurent. It is my favorite Trisetella, too, though I'm fond of them all. The flowers on the others, though, are all somewhat the same.
DeleteI really wonder how flower shapes would "melt" in hybrids! I've a batch of nearly adult hoeijerii x triglochin, and a much younger batch of regia x hoijerii :-)
ReplyDeleteThose sound amazing, Laurent. Years ago I did a bunch of Masdevallia-Trisetella hybrids, as well as some Trisetella hybrids, but the guy who was doing all the flasking for me went out of business and I never got anything from him. Haven't really tried any hybridizing since.
Deletewell, today I found one flask of my first Trisetella intergeneric: M. chaparensis x T. regia. they're very poorly rooted, but the size is decent for deflasking. and I've to do it right now, as the flask is contaminated on one side!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like an interesting cross. Can't even imagine what it would be like.
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