Showing posts with label orchid vine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label orchid vine. Show all posts

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Mystery Orchid, Airplants

Not a great photo, but can anyone I.D. this mystery orchid? It was given to me as a gift, and has bloomed twice. Also some mystery airplants in the pot purchased from the fall plant sale at Mounts Botanical Garden.

I historically kill orchids, so the fact that I have had this one alive for months inspires me to attempt more orchids. I love orchids, but the high price and my high rate of failure with them has discouraged me from trying more. This one gives me hope.

I have it in indirect sunlight, on the patio, and water it whenever I walk past it. Seems to be working.

Orchid Vine, Bauhinia Yunnanensis


This vine is my pride and joy, the orchid vine Bauhinia yunnanensis. After seeing these online it took me forever to track a live one down. I can't remember the site where I purchased it :(

It has neat bi-lobed butterfly shaped leaves on delicate-looking thin vines. I'm scared to plant it in the ground until it gets larger. It will eventually have beautiful pink orchid-like flowers.

I am currently experimenting with propagating it via cuttings. Currently I have snipped off one vine, dipped the end in rooting hormone, and placed in very moist soil. The cutting is drying up a bit so I will probably make some sort of greenhouse for it to keep the humidity high until (if?) it roots. Hopefully I will have some cuttings of this available for trade/sale.