Miniature orchid fun at our first GLOS meeting

Dec. 30, 2014 [update]: It is fascinating observing the flowers of the Lepanthes telipogoniflora develop. It’s like origami how such a tiny plant produces these satellite dish flowers.

Dec. 21, 2014 [update]: The Lepanthes telipogoniflora has finally bloomed and it’s so cute!

Nov. 1, 2014 [update]: The Pleurothallis amparoana is blooming and it’s so wacky cute.

Larry wanted to show how tiny these flowers are compared to his fingers.

Here’s a nice clear picture that Larry had took.

Sept. 20, 2014: Lansing will forever be our second home. When life in the D gets too crazy, a quick drive out to the Lansing area never fails to de-stress. Because of that, we figured joining the Greater Lansing Orchid Society (GLOS) made sense to feed our orchidelirium further. This weekend was the first official meeting we had the opportunity to attend and it was a ton of fun!

The guest speaker was Marni Turkel from California and she brought a lot of amazing miniature orchids for sale. That was perfect since now that we brought in our plants from the makeshift greenhouse into our spare bedroom, we really didn’t have any more space left for regular-sized plants. We also couldn’t resist participating in the silent auction and the raffle. Feels great to give to the society!

From Marni Turkel’s wares, we picked up several exciting little gems:

Pleurothallis amparoana

This plant immediately caught our eyes while the vendor table was being setup. We initially thought it was a Scaphosepalum but we got more excited to find out it’s one of those fuzzy toilet bowl orchids!

Masdevallia decumana

(picture from Internet) We will always love Masdevallias no matter how finicky they are with growing conditions.

Porroglossum hirtzii ‘Blanco’

(picture from Internet) I’ve always wanted to supplement our Masdevallia and Dracula collection with Porroglossums but they’re not as widely available. We’re geeked to have been able to pick up a cute little plant from Marni.

Lepanthes telipogoniflora

(picture from Internet) It’s the infamous tiny orchid with enormously disproportionate flowers! Larry really wanted to get one of these so we did.

The few plants on the silent auction table looked great and we were able to win these two:

Paph. Crossianum (insigne x venustum)

(picture from Internet) We didn’t check how the flowers of this hybrid would look before bidding since we saw two Paph species that we truly love as parents.