At our society auction I just got a Bulb. onkostellida. I can find no reference of this plant and was hoping some of our bulbo experts here may have heard this name used. I am almost positive the plant is an echinolabium, and will have a picture of the flower in a week or two since it has three spikes.

Park Bear, you're first on the division list for it. Thanks for not bidding me up too high. BTW, my mom couldn't stop talking about how sweet your cockatoo was...maybe I can twist her arm a little into a new pet :twisted:

Jon

He is a sweet bird and he is very well behaved, better than my kids sometimes :lol:. He took a little nap in the car on the way home for about 15 minutes and then he was ready to go again.

On the bulbo, I figured you would have better success than I would and I would learn from you. I also wanted to, maybe, bid on some of the bigger multiflorals, but I decided to save my money for another day.

I poked a little at that name, and not coming up with anything either.

If its a synonym for echinolabium, it must be very new. Is it a large plant?

Otherwise I'd start looking under some of the other genera that are now under the Bulbo umbrella like Cirropetallum.

Thanks very much for checking around Rick.
If I had a mature division of this plant next to a mature division of echinolabium you couldn't tell them apart. How and where it got this name is beyond me, I may just have to find who it came from and see where they got it. I should have some photos posted in a little over a week when it blooms, thanks again.

Jon

Jon that isn't a name that I am familiar with either. Has it bloomed? Pic?

Pics of it are available in the "Bulbophyllum echinolabium" thread I started a few days ago in the Orchid Gallery. Me and the flies can't tell it isn't echinolabium.

Jon