Mediocalcar umboiense

This little species is now bloming in my nanovivarium.

This in Mediocalcar umboiense, a small species from the island of Umboi between New guinea and New britain. It's a species not that common in cultivation, i've had it since august this year(2013). It's growing mounted on a terra-cotta pipe, temperatures between 17-25 °C, and an RH of about 75-80%

sorry for not being able to take better images, but my camera is't that good. The flower is about 7x7 mm so pollinating it was a bit tricky.

 

Julie, you can see my tank here on my flickr page =)

KellyW, This genus in one of my favorite genera as well, although i only grow this species so far. I hope to get more species next year. As far as my understanding is, this species can handle a little warmer temperature then the rest of the genus but M,decoratum wants it cooler, probably max 20°C and cool nights. I think you can get away with warmer days as long as nights are cool. The temperatures given by me above is referring to the air temperature, the clay pipe itself is a few degrees cooler than the surrounding air so the roots are always kept cool and moist. I hope to try to grow more Mediocalcar species like this and then i will know if it works or if i just had luck with this one.

 

Wow nice specimen you have there.