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Today I bought a few new carnivorous plants.

• Cephalotus follicularis
• Darlingtonia californica
• Nepenthes jacquelineae
• Nepenthes ramispina
• Nepenthes singalana
• Nepenthes vogelii

Am extremely happy I finally found 2 that I’ve been looking for (the Cephalotus and Darlingtonia). All of these plants are still very tiny – the Cephalotus’ pitchers are about 9mm in height, and the Darlingtonia pitchers are about 25mm high. Photos of these 2 follow (no photos of the Nepenthes yet)

Cephalotus follicularis

Cephalotus follicularis close-up

Darlingtonia californica

Darlingtonia californica

Darlingtonia californica

Today I was given a small Dendrochilum filiforme with 6 pseudobulbs and 1 new growth on the way.

5 plants I had on order arrived in the post today. This is the list of plants:

• Bulbophyllum blepharistes
• Bulbophyllum purpurascens
• Bulbophyllum spathulatum
• Pleurothallis palliolata
• Restrepia trichoglossa

Here are some photos I took of them after unpacking

Bulbophyllum blepharistes unpacked

Bulbophyllum purpurascens unpacked

Bulbophyllum purpurascens unpacked - buds

Bulbophyllum spathulatum unpacked

Pleurothallis palliolata unpacked

Restrepia trichoglossa unpacked

On the 15th of last month I was given 3 new plants:

• Dendrobium exile
• Restrepia brachypus
• Zootrophion atropurpureum

I bought 2 new plants at the Duckitts open day yesterday, and they are:

• Cattleychea Darling Glow
• Powellara (Cattlianthe Noemi Santiago X Brassanthe Maikai)

and this is what they look like:

Cattleychea Darling Glow

Powellara (Cattlianthe Noemi Santiago X Brassanthe Maikai)

Today I bought myself a few plants..

• Ascofinetia Peaches ‘Kultana’
• Bulbophyllum putidum
• Bulbophyllum wendlandianum
• Dendrobium pulchellum
• Encyclia prismatocarpa
• Paphiopedilum Leeanum
• Stanhopea NOID

It’s been a while since my last post due to me buying myself a new toy. I now (finally) have a DSLR camera. It’s a Canon EOS 550D, with a nice little EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro lens – very nice   I have some photos of plants that have been in flower, but will post them a little later on. However, this post won’t be lacking in photos as I bought a few plants @ Duckitt’s yesterday (their first open day of 2010) The plants I bought were:

• Cymbidium Hot Doll (registration pending – parents: C. Kusuda Shining x (C. Kusuda Shining x C. Dolly “Heatherhill”)
• Hawkinsara X Cattleytonia Capri “Lea”
• Polystachya Frieda’s Blush (P. Darling Rose “Cape Strawberry” x P. longiscapa “Jupiter”)
• Laelia rubescens (the very same plant I recently bought from Plantae – smaller, though)
• Laelia bradei (bought a larger, stronger plant this time as previous plant isn’t doing too well. Will try giving this a different spot in the greenhouse)

Here are the photos of the plants above which are in flower

Cymbidium Hot Doll (2010-05-01)

Hawkinsara X Cattleytonia Capri "Lea" (2010-05-01)

Polystachya Frieda's Blush (2010-05-01)

At the Rare Plant Fair on the 27th of March, I bought the following plants:

• Ceropegia stapeliiformis
• Hoodia gordonii
• Huernia barbata
• Huernia quinta
• Huernia thurettii
• Orbea ???
• Stapelia hirsuta
• Stapelia gigantea
• Stapelia leendertziae
• Stapelia tsomoensis
• Stapelia unicornis

I’m not sure what the Orbea is. What I do know is it’s a rambling/ground cover/creeping type. I thought the label was in the pot, but once I arrived home I noticed it was missing. It’s supposed to be dropping it’s leaves now for the coming winter, but will come back in spring. Here’s a photo I just took of Huernia thurettii

Huernia thurettii

On Saturday the 13th,  I bought a few  flasks (of which the Microcoelia exilis and Cymbidium Australian Midnight were donated – thank you, Richard):

• Cymbidium Australian Midnight ‘Black Velvet’
• Cymbidium elegans
• Dendrobium spectabile
• Euchile mariae
• Microcoelia exilis
• Vanda testacea

On Tuesday the 23rd, I bought 2 new plants off the plant sales table at the March COS meeting:

• Dendrobium macrophyllum
• Epidendrum peperomia

and took 3 plants home from the raffle:

• Anacheilium baculus
• Dendrobium kingianum
• Miltonia Lanikai

Then on the 26th some plants I’d ordered arrived in the post:

• Bulbophyllum arfakianum
• Dendrobium peguanum
• Dendrobium purpureum
• Laelia rubescens
• Plectrelminthus caudatus

And on the 28th I got the following:

• Barbosella australis
• Dockrillia wassellii

Unfortunately no photos yet. Will update as soon as I’ve taken a few. I’d also bought a few Stapeliads from the Rare Plant Fair in Stellenbosch on the 27th, but that’ll be another post.

The following are new plants since the last COS meeting in January:

• Brassavola perrinii (possibly dead – attempting to recover)
• 2 NOID Paphiopedilums (very likely dead – will see if anything happens)
• A NOID Paraphalaenopsis (possibly dead – attempting to recover)
• A NOID Phalaenopsis (possibly dead – attempting to recover)
• Phalaenopsis X intermedia
• Polystachya Duckitt Limelight
• A NOID Vanda (possibly dead – attempting to recover)

Polystachya Duckitt Limelight