Habenaria medusa
Submitted by bernabu on Tue, 14/08/2012 - 20:02
Score: 9.6, Votes: 8
Habenaria medusa.
Distribution Malesia.
Have attached several different images from different angles including an image showing this plant in a local florists shop window. The owner told me that it created a lot of interest.
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Score: 9.6, Votes: 8
awesome
love your work Bernard!
Regards wellsy
Habenaria
beautiful pictures, congratulation Bernard
Bli-Diuma
Masterpieces
This are masterpieces of photography!
Thanks to Steve, Jules and
Thanks to Steve, Jules and Horst for their kind remarks.
bernabu
Habenaria medusa
Beautiful sp and beautiful pictures indeed!
Great flower shop too
Lovely images that bring the orchid to life. Lucky to have such an unusual flower shop nearby too
for sale
Several dozen flowering specimens were for sale on the streets in Chatuchak market, Bangkok, on Wednesday at the price of three Euros per plant. It is easier to buy beautiful orchids in a market than to find them in the forest. It was very obvious that the plants had been taken from the forest by inexperienced collectors.
B.medusa.
I make no excuses for owning this plant which was given to me several years ago and I have since given away 12 tubers and hope this year to give some more.
bernabu
b. medusa
Congratulations on the pictures and also on growing this orchid. It is really spectacular and very special. In addition you grow them and multiplicate them..... just great.
Rene
H.medusa
Rik. Is it possible that the flowering specimens you saw for sale in the market in Bankok were not Habenaria medusa, which is found in Malesia -(Borneo, Java, Sulawesi and Sumatra) but a very similar species Habenaria godefroyi which is found across Indo-China ?
bernabu
Excellent set of images...I
Excellent set of images...I have always observed that H. medusae is a photogenic plant...
Jose
Habenaria medusa
Sorry for the late reply Bernard. I am fully aware that your plant is CITES certified and I believe that growers like you will prevent the extinction of this species. Even illegal collection does little damage compared with the ongoing clearing of forests in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. The annual forest fires destroy and degrade the remaining forests. The future is bleak for orchids species with a limited distribution area.
The plants in Chatuchak market are Habenaria medusa and not Habenaria godefroyi. The origin of the plants is probably Laos. It is even possible that the illegal collectors have found this species in Thailand (and maybe even made it extinct in Thailand) before it has been officially recorded.
An annotated checklist of the Orchidaceae of Laos by Andre Schuiteman, Pierre Bonnet, Bouakhaykhone Svengsuksa and Daniel Barthelemy.
Nordic Journal of Botany 26: 257-316, 2008
Habenaria medusa Kraenzl.
Vietnam; Sumatra, Java, Borneo, ?Sulawesi.
Laos: Boli-khamxai (S); Champasak (NUOL cult. P3 [P. Bonnet]); Khammouan (NUOL cult. OL943 [M. Newman et al.];N); Vientiane (S).
Terrestrial in forest, including forest at the base of limestone hills; 500 m a.s.l. August-October.
Habenaria
Thanks for your information Rik. It's nearly 55 years since I was in the Malay Peninsular, I think at that time 4/5ths of the land mass was jungle. Wonder what the position is now?
bernabu