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Post by kltower on Dec 14, 2006 23:09:58 GMT 8
I was at Awana (1000m), about mid way on Genting Highlands late last month. I got off to a very good start. I visisted a private orchid farm near the base of the hill. It was owned by a retired Japanese (Malasyia as a second home). Knowing that I am a fellow orchid enthusiat, he gave me three paphiopedilums. Unfortunately, there were no tags. He told me the large one was from Borneo, the mid size one from Cameron Highlands and the small one a hybrid.  The last time I was at this site was a year ago when I took a Japanese to see nepenthes. Now I have a shock of my life. The place looked like it had been bulldozed or ran over by some four wheels. The place is also used as a dump site. I went over the site, about the size of 6 football fields for about three hours. The matured sanguinea are well protected by the lalang and fern bushes but I DID NOT find a single baby or young rosette!!!! rubbish dump  well hidden with arundina orchids (full of them) as company   sanguinea plants can climb over 2 m height  the only 3 young plants I could find. No baby plants!! No flowering or plants with seeds found  lower pitcher, about 20cm  upper pitcher are usually green but here's a nice red one  mirablis and gracilis were also found   |
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Post by David on Dec 15, 2006 8:52:26 GMT 8
The fourth last picture of the sanguinea pitcher is huge Choong. Did not know gracilis and mirabilis also grows in Genting too. I thought they only grew in lowland conditions.
It's kinda sad to know that many neps growing areas are being destroyed to accomodate development or just for the fun of it.
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Post by cactustts on Dec 15, 2006 13:08:25 GMT 8
It's really sad and angry to see that the habitat being destroyed/disturbed.
Highland paphiopedilums don't flower in the lowland where we live, I was also crazy of orchids before but now the "heat" is over. Pls don't heat that up again. Ha, ha.
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Post by artificialive on Dec 15, 2006 14:42:29 GMT 8
Afraid to fall in love again with ur ex lover, cactustts? ha ha ;D
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Post by David on Dec 15, 2006 21:09:18 GMT 8
On Your first picture, the one witht the ordhids. At the background, is it N. ramispina? Cool if you can grow this highland so well.
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Post by kltower on Dec 15, 2006 23:31:21 GMT 8
David, sanguinea can grow to 30 cm. Mirabilis and gracilis can be found in highlands and in highlands their pitchers tend to be bigger too.
Cactustis, I know highland orchids don;t normally bloom in lowlands, but once in a while they do. But I also have some lowland paphs.
Yes David, the plant in the background is a ramispina. They are very hard to grow. It is easier to grow sanguinea. I hope they will last this time with live spaghnum moss.
Choong
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Post by David on Dec 17, 2006 14:15:13 GMT 8
Yes David, the plant in the background is a ramispina. They are very hard to grow. It is easier to grow sanguinea. I hope they will last this time with live spaghnum moss. Could you share your growing environment for your ramispina? Potting media, sunlight, watering routine, humidity... Want to see if I can provide a similar environment for these highlanders. Then I can try a few and see. I've always shy away from highlanders as I've killed a few or those that suervive have either become dwarfts or are merely existing. |
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Post by 3sgjeffery on Dec 19, 2006 14:33:20 GMT 8
AH yoh What a beautiful Nep. I was back from Genting yesterday. It was foggy and rainy the whole day.  sanguinea highlander? |
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Post by David on Dec 20, 2006 18:05:25 GMT 8
Actually I've alsways thought that sanguinea is a highlander until KLtower tells me otherwise. Cameron has a few forms of sanguinea. Saw it in the market before. They were poached from the jungles in Cameron.
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Post by kltower on Dec 20, 2006 22:45:08 GMT 8
David,
I am sure quite abit of the sanguinea sold in Cameron are wild. But some nurseries do sell plants from TC. Tropbio in their Puchong labs are supplying sanguinea TCs locally and internationally. You can get Cameron sanguinea (I think these are TCs) from Sg Buloh.
Choong
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Post by David on Dec 21, 2006 8:47:59 GMT 8
Do they have lowland sanguinmea? I saw a green form and a marron form before, but don't know if it is lowland or highland. I was at Sg. Buloh lately and one nursery had a lot of neps. They have rafflesiana, sanguinea (2 forms), ampullaria, miranda, xventrata and one unknown species. Looks like a green mirabilis but doesn't really match.
If the sanguinea there is lowland, I would go and get one. But the price is crazy. RM50 above. The ampullaria (green, speckle) is going for RM100 xx. Crazy!
Would you know whether Tropbio tissue culture highland sanguinea is grown here in KL or in the highlands? I thought they have stopped doing TC for pitcher plants. Called them up quite a while back and the staff said that the company does not TC neps anymore. Perhaps now someone has asked them to TC on their behalf.
One of my first few neps were from them. I got gracilis from their nursery near Bkt Rahman Putra. Don't know what that road is called. It's on the way out of KL from Sg. Buloh. Eventhough gracilis is not that pretty, but when I first saw it the first time, it was a sight to behold. My heart just went "jumping" up and down!
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