This one just keeps blooming as long as the old flower spikes are green, it keeps sending out new flowers. The little flowers are only around 1cm long.

Masdevallia pyxis
http://home.telkomsa.net/thomasriver/images/orchids/masdevallia_pyxis.jpg

Oh, wow, that is really tiny! Very nice!

Yes it is, and also never fully opens, so trying to pollinate it is quite a problem.

Yes it is, and also never fully opens, so trying to pollinate it is quite a problem.

I wondered if it was fully open at this stage.

I wondered if it was fully open at this stage.


Yep, thats as far as mine goes. The tips curl out slightly on some flowers.

Buy an ant farm! Let them pollinate that! Wow! You breed alot o stuff Gideon!

masdies are so cool :D

Buy an ant farm! Let them pollinate that! Wow! You breed alot o stuff Gideon!

No need to buy one...the ants are free here, can't get rid of them.

I like the weird stuff, I am the guy who buys all the funny little pots behind the everyday Catts and Cymbidiums (although they sometimes find their way into my basket too). The species breeders clap hands when they see me comming.

Finally it seems the numerous pollination attempts has paid off.

Masdevallia pyxis capsule?

http://home.telkomsa.net/thomasriver/images/orchids/masdevallia_pyxis_capsule.jpg

congratulations :Party:

Here another picture of Masdevallia pyxis, which I get from Ton Sijm from Netherland
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/og48/Masdpyxisklein.jpg
Best greetings

Olaf

I like cool weird stuff :evil: :twisted: :evil: :twisted:

These and bulbos have some of the weirdest flowers!

Gideon,

Very nice pictures! Very unusual! Reminds me of the flower of Miltonia russeliana.

Thanks