Pterostylis

[Slug Killer]

Hi, just wondering if anyone has some Pterostylis for sale as you don't see them to often. Or if anyone nows where I can get some?

Regards

Dave

[art600]

I have a friend who grows them.  I will ask him if he has any for sale.

[WimB]

Hello,

Paul Christian at http://www.rareplants.co.uk/ sells them though I think it are the last days he has them for sale this season.

[Paul T]

Rob,

Interesting that it is just coming into growth for you.  They're just coming out of summer dormancy here as well, so yours is obviously still on southern hemisphere timing.    I have a growing collection of these (no pun intended) and thoroughly enjoy them.  I already have one species in bud.... it's an autumn one I am presuming, or else it is very confused.  The genus Pterostylis is in the process of being split up into a number of other genera.

[Paul T]

Rob,

Well they certainly have perfectly timed themselves to here in their native habitat.  I'm don't think that we have those species native near Canberra, but within a couple of hours from here I think.  I have a few baptistii named forms, plus assorted species and hybrids.  That particular collection has gone ahead in leaps and bounds this year as our local orchid society contains an expert (the type who writes books and is part of the name changes etc) who was selling some dormant tubers over summer.  Another addiction in the making for me I think.

[Slug Killer]

I've been growing some for a few years now but unable to identify them and have given up asking people now. These were in flower three weeks ago. They were marked as Curta but i've been told they are not. Mystery.

[Maggi Young]

Looks very like Pterostylis cutra , as I think of it, Dave! See these SRGC links.....
http://www.srgc.org.uk/shows/perth/report.html
and from the old forum,
http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/141/29960.html

Ah, well, let's sit back now and wait for the opinions of others to come in.
 It is a super potful you have there, whatever!

[Carlo]

Looks like it had something really bad to eat!

[Slug Killer]

 

[Lesley Cox]

I see what you mean Carlo. It looks like my P. curta (the only species I have).

[Paul T]

They look to me a bit like curta, but more brown on them I think than the ones I have seen.  I think there is quite a bit of mixing up even here in Australia of "commercial" sales of Pterostylis.  I have 2 sources of curta and one I'm fairly certain isn't.  It is much slower to multiply than the other, but the darn things refuse to flower on the same years.  Now my curta is doing much better than it used to so I expect it to flower every year and hopefully I can get them in flower side by side at some point.  If they can be easily messed up here in Aus where they're native, then heaven knows what they're like overseas!!