Silky Blue Orchid (Cyanicula sericea)

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Apr 16, 2005

Silky Blue Orchid
Cyanicula sericea

Silky Blue Orchid in Western Australia, September 2001

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CaptMicha Brookeville, MD(Zone 7a) Apr 18, 2005

You always find the most unual orchids. I never knew Australia boasted so many. This reminds me to send you that sase thing. I can't believe I let that slip my mind!

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Apr 18, 2005

This one is found only in Western Australia, so I was lucky to find it in a fairly short visit over there

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CaptMicha Brookeville, MD(Zone 7a) Apr 18, 2005

I noticed that most of your orchids are naked. Do they flower before they put on growth or is that because of low humidity?

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Apr 18, 2005

Most of these little ground orchids have an underground tuber and put up a single shoot with often just a single leaf and a flower stem with just one or two flowers. You can see that this one has a single leaf at the base of the stem. This is the complete plant and after flowering and hopefully setting and ripening seed, the plant will die back to its underground tuber through the long hot Australian summer and then re-appear the following spring.

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CaptMicha Brookeville, MD(Zone 7a) Apr 18, 2005

They're beautiful. Do they sell these kinds of orchids, hopefully not wild collected, in nurseries in Australia?

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Apr 18, 2005

I believe there are some specialist nurseries that do sell plants of some of these orchids, but I believe they are quite difficult to maintain in cultivation.

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