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Dischidias

To Keith & all others interested in this subject:
     Ahhhh, one of my favorite plants, an "ant plant" that is
epiphytic.  I have 4 or 5 different Dischidias and the one that took off
right away and started growing, once I mounted it came from Ted Green in
Hawaii.  The others I got from a group order from Australia & it took
them over a year to get out of shock & acclimated to my greenhouse.  Now
they are growing all over, blooming and just being neat.  I saw my first
Dischidia at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens growing up the posts that
hold the greenhouse up.  It was probably D. imbricata.  I grow my
Dischidias on hanging pieces of bark, just like I do my small orchids,
and they get watered once a week.  Once-in-a-while, I fertilize but they
seem to do just fine growing on that piece of bark which is hung up on
the greenhouse wall next to the house (we have a leanto) and since there
are plants hanging over them, they get diffused light and not direct
light.  I suppose this is similar to what they get in the rainforests. 
I would be interested to find out the nurseries that sell Dischidias,
other than Ted Green in Hawaii.  I paid $ 30.00 for that Dischidia years
ago and I guess it was really worth paying more for a plant that was
acclimated to our hemisphere because it didn't take long for the plant
to start growing.   That's my 2 cents on Dischidias.  Judy Showers
(Greenhouse grower in Pennsylvania, zone 6)
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