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Barbosella australis

Syn.: Restrepia australis; Barbosella australis var, genuina; Restrepia loefgrenii; Barbosella loefgrenii; Barbosella australis var. latipetala; Barbosella australis var, loefgrenii

Bulbophyllum putidum

Syn.: Cirrhopetalum putidum; Mastigion putidum

Masdevallia limax

Acianthera pectinata

Syn.: Pleurothallis pectinata; Humboltia pectinata; Pleurothallis pectinata var. major

Platystele ximenae

Lepanthopsis acuminata

lightning illuminates an ash cloud that extends ten kilometres high in this june 5, 2011 eruption of puyehue volcano, near osorno in southern chile. known as a dirty thunderstorm, this phenomenon is yet to be explained by science, as the source of the lightning (or the specific mechanism by which particles of differing charges are separated in the ash cloud) continues to be debated.   

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Spiranthes odorata

Syn.: Spiranthes cernua var. odorata et al.

I can't believe it but for once I repotted an orchid and tears weren't shed, swear words weren't uttered and nobody yelled at plants. The last orchid I got was this beauty, the Chia E Yen. I wasn't going to touch the orchid despite being in sphagnum moss because she was happy and who was I to disturb her but...

I thought those brown things were dead roots. They weren't. But I didn't know. So because of the apparently dead roots and because the healthy roots were tightly pressed against the pot and it seems an upgrade would do the orchid good, I decided to repot her. I would simply take her out, remove the dead roots and put her inside a bigger (and less feeble) pot.

Once I took her out I realised that those brown things weren't dead roots but other type of debris. In any case, I had already destroyed the old pot (inevitable because it was really tightly packed) I had to keep going. So I moved her to a bigger pot. As you can see in the picture above, there was a gap between the media and the walls of the new pot. I thought it would be difficult but it wasn't. I took dry moss and started filling the gap. Then I watered the plant, the dry moss expanded and...