Marquis :
You wrote : "How "nanum" is Oncidium nanum? ... has leaves of about 8.5 inches/21.6 cm in length... what conditions does it favor... "
1) Leaves to 20 x 4cm
source : Manual of Orchids (Joyce Stewart, Mark Griffiths, Royal Horticultural Society), Timber Press, 1995, page 244.
2) "Grow mounted or potted." source : http://www.clanorchids.com/pages/91012s.htm
"It likes slabs well (especially oak bark) or baskets with my tree fern-redwood and is intermediate, waterwise. "
source : http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Recreation/OrchidSNS/magapr97.html
"warm growing ... in wet montane forest, most often on citrus and avocado trees at elevations of sea level to 1400 meters"
source : http://www.beavervalleyorchids.com/BVOsite/BVO_web_site_master/CATALOG/Species/Oncidium%20Alliance/Catalogbrassavolaandoncidiumpage.htm
Hawkes (Encyclopaedia...) recommends warm to intermediate conditions.
In Native Colombian Orchids, recommended growing conditions are 'cold' (8 to 20 degrees).
************ Oncidium nanum Lindl.
is now called
Lophiaris nana (Lindl.) Braem
name published in Schlechteriana 4(1-2): 19. 1993
************ You should try to get a copy of the following article :
"Oncidium aurisasinorum and Onc. nanum" published in the American Orchid Society Bulletin Vol. 36 , July 1967 No. 7.
************ Regards,
Viateur
_______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
