Medusa Rein Orchid

Habenaria medusa

Description:

Deciduous tuberous terrestrial orchid found in a number of South East Asian countries. Habenaria myriotricha is considered by some botanists to be synonymous with this. The predominantly white flowers have a green nectar spur and are almost certainly pollinated by nocturnal moths. I would like to know which and one day hope to locate this plant in the wild for a pollination study.

Habitat:

Cultivated at home in London, in a warm conservatory in diffuse bright light.

Notes:

At first I decided to only post pictures of plants in the wild on here, but some things are just too good not to share and seeing as there are no pics of this species on PN yet, here it is!

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17 Comments

rutasandinas 12 years ago

Hermosas orquídeas, por favor agrégala a la mission Orchids in the World

http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/9525...

craigwilliams 12 years ago

Thanks alin!
CarbonEngineer, I couldn't agree more. Every time I feel like I've seen the strangest things this family has to offer, there's always a species to surprise me. Still can't believe this one.

alin 12 years ago

This is a great photo!

Jonathan Guyot 12 years ago

Amazing ! it is precisely because they are extraordinary that I love orchids.

Hema Shah 12 years ago

Wow Wow Wow !

Dilek Cifci 12 years ago

Just Wowww!

AshleyBradford 12 years ago

That is even better!

craigwilliams 12 years ago

Thanks. I don't have the facilities here, but I know a good lab. here that will sow them.

AshleyBradford 12 years ago

Oh that's exciting! Sounds like you have the facilities for propagation? How nice! I wish you good luck with this.

craigwilliams 12 years ago

Thanks Ashley. I have a couple of seed pods maturing on this one at the moment so hopefully it will become more widely available in time and there'll be less temptation for folk to buy dodgy wild harvested tubers off the net.