Bulbophyllum agastor
Submitted by bernabu on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 21:03
Score: 9.0, Votes: 2
Bulbophyllum agastor
This is one of the smaller sized species in section Macrobulbum and is found in PNG.
Bernard
Vote Result
Score: 9.0, Votes: 2
thats awesome
thats an awesome plant Bernard!
I think I just added that to my wishlist!
Regards wellsy
Regards wellsy
bulbo
Just wondering has anyone got any plants for sale in Australia ?
Just to clarify, are you
Just to clarify, are you referring to B. agastor, the macrobulbum section or Bulbo's generally?
bulbophyllum agastor
hello can some one sell me a plant of the bulbophyllum agastor and what wold that cost kind reagards mark
Mouth watering
Hey bernabu, you are making everyones mouth water, mine too as I dont have this one either
Pawpaw
Macrobulbon
Surely there must be an orchid nursery that could supply species from this section in Australia, especially with you living so close to PNG, where the Macrobulbon species are found. More and more growers around the world are turning their attention and learning more about this large and interesting genus.
bernabu
bernabu
There are
Last time I checked Geoff Stocker and Murray Shergold where selling them.
Bulbophyllum hashimotoi
Mark, welcome. I note that in your member profile, that you expressed an interest in obtaining some species from section Macrobulbon, including B.hashimotoi, this was described by Yukawa & Karasawa in 1997 and is considered by many to be a synonym of B.orthosepalum. Only time will tell if this position will be generally accepted.
hope this helps
Bernard
bernabu
I checked
I just checked the Monocot site and Bulbophyllum hashimotoi is a separate species.
"Bulbophyllum hashimotoi T.Yukawa & K.Karas., Ann. Tsukuba Bot. Gard. 16: 17 (1997).
This name is accepted."
B agastor
This plant should be available in FLASK from Phil Spence of Orchid Productions at Wamberal NSW. I got some a few years ago and have a reasonably large plant now. It grows continuously with five new leads at present -probably two years off "flowering size" if lucky.
Whilst in PNG with Phil Spence and Geoff Stocker, we went to a roadside cutting in the highlands that was covered with this plant in flower and with seed pods. At the first sign of interest the locals were up the cliff and throwing down plants at us. Kind of hard to have all these desirable plants in your hands and knowing that that is as far as the plants will go. Still, much seed was collected. Last time I was at Phil's he had flasks.
I also would be interested to know if anyone in Australia has B orthosepalum. I have heard of only one person who may have it but live in hope that one of my unflowered plants may turn out to be an orthosepalum. I have always considered hashimotoi and orthosepalum to be the same.
Rgds
JK
OK
migocab, I must confess that I expected you to come back on this species.
The monocot list still shows this as a valid species, but in the very near future you will find that it will become a synonym. So yes at this time it is considered a good species. Someone has jumped the gun, which confirms my answer to your personal communications with myself, regarding the other lists that you queried and the validity aspect.
bernabu
bernabu
update
Checking through the World Checklist at Kew, I see that B.hishimotoi is now a synonym of B.orthosepalum.
bernabu