Bulbo appendiculatum x frostii

Description

2” basket. Bulbopohyllum appendiculatum is an unusual and hard-to-find species native to southeast Asia. Flowers are bizarre in appearance with a dramatically yellow and red striped dorsal sepal, extremely long striped ventral sepals that twist together to form a long cone-like structure, and a purple pouch-like lip that looks like a protruding tongue. The dorsal sepal and petals all have strange purple “appendages” hanging from them, so that the flower looks like it’s wearing a gaudy collection of earrings.  B frostii is another miniature Southeast Asian species that produces umbels of a few cream-colored flowers heavily spotted in red, also with the ventral sepals fused into a short, broad cone-like structure. The lip is dark red and tongue-like. The flowers will probably look more like those of frostii, but it will be interesting to wait and see. Mid-size seedlings.