Disa atricapilla

[fredg]

A winter growing Disa, it requires a dry summer rest. The buds seem to take forever to open. One not to grow in a Sarracenia lagoon

[Pauli]

A obscure but nevertheless wonderful flower and very fine pictures

[Peter Maguire]

Lovely photos of a fascinating plant Fred.
Am I correct in thinking it has a relatively short flower stalk? The one I flowered last year had such a long, spindly flower stalk that it needed support for the inflorescence. It hasn't yet flowered yet this year.

[fredg]

Prospective height 5 - 30cm.  I think that one is about 15 - 20cm. So it is a little spindly when you see all the buds at the top.

[Peter Maguire]

Same as mine then; you might find it needs support when all the flowers start to open.
I was reading yesterday that the best flowering in the wild is just after a fire and then it becomes less prolific...... Makes me wonder whether mine will flower again this year.

[fredg]

Betterer and betterer was the cry 

[Maggi Young]

My word! It really is a cracker, isn't it?  All those colours- carved from wax it seems!!

[fredg]

Yin maer

[fredg]

Jiist ra yin maer tae gaen

[WimB]

Jiist ra yin maer tae gaen

Wonderful and whatever you're writing it looks a bit like West-Flemish (my native dialect)... Just one more to go?? - In W-Flemish: Juste moe ien meir te goan

[fredg]

Spot on WimB it's a Scottish dialect very like Dutch/Flemish.

Just the one more to go

[fredg]

Full house, all seven flowers.

[fredg]

41 days after the first flower opened it's still looking good. What has happened since the last flower opened is that the flowers have begun to separate vertically.

Please excuse image quality, it's windy out there (and the spiderlings have been busy).


Now I need to ask how I'm supposed to give it a dry late spring/summer rest when it's in full flower and seed production?

[Roma]

Plants don't read the books or not the same ones we do