Great photos, Cal! Very cool and classy bloom. I can see a face with a spotted "ascot" underneath and a very neat striped shirt. :)

Carol

What an amazing flower and an excellent photo to do it justice. Peter

I love all the restrepia - very cool plants. This one if very colorful. Yours looks very different from mine. I wonder if there is a lot of variation between plants and flowers?

Kevin

Too Cool!

You have captured the beauty of the bloom so well- nice picture- canon??

Thanks for the comments, everyone! :)

Sambac - it's just a simple point and shoot fujifilm finepix camera..I find it has a good macro but the resolution is grainy. I'm thinking of getting a digital SLR at some point soon, but my only justification for getting one is to photograph orchids....doesn't that sound a little ludicrous? Oh wait...where am I again and what crowd am I asking? :)

Good gravy!
That's awesome!
Makes my poor, poor pitifully common Orchids blush with shame...not that I don't love mine mind you...hehehe.

One of my new year's resolutions was to stop growing pleurothalllids, but seeing this I'm weakening again.

Sorry to dig up an old post, but how is this doing for you, Calvin? I go back and forth between wanting one now and waiting til later.

This one is doing okay but I fear it might be dying. I kept it too dry, because I *thought* it was getting water at the back of the tank, but it really wasn't...was also getting strangled by a rogue fern. My tank is quite warm, which I'm sure it despises too...it sadly tried to put out a few growths but didn't get enough water...I'm taking much better care of it now, so we'll see if it forgives me. It's nice and stays small and the flowers are neat

Hey, I got a Restrepia striata for free! It looks very similar to antennifera, from pics that I've seen. I hope yours does forgive you. Is it sad that I'm starting to consider something as small as this as a little too big? Ha. I've got micro mini Pleuros on the brain, I guess.

I only have to say that orchids are great, cool, striking and intriguing flowers. What a impressive one. Congratulations for a good buy.

I knew you'd have trouble Calvin. I think the reward/difficulty equation with pleurothallids is just too unfavorable. I have my latest acquisition, a Pleurothallis sarracenia, on a tree fern mount with sphagnum in a shady part of the garden. We're pretty close to the center of Pleurothallid territory, but it isn't thriving. I think they must need microfungi or something, dang em.

Calvin

What are you growing this one in or on? I find these pretty easy to grow in tree fern or on pieces of tree fern. No other medium has worked for me. In fact, I received a similar restrepia species via a trade. When it arrived it was mounted on something and almost dead. After I took it off the mount I simply wedged between a couple of pieces of tree fern in a clay pot. That plant got so huge I sold it, but kept a couple of keikis for myself. They're growing like gangbusters too.

Kevin