Meyers Conservatory - troymeyers.com
Site Navigation
Flasking Home Page
Your Picks List
Comprehensive List
Articles in the Site
Search
Ready-To-Go Flasks
Fast-Turn Flasks
Greenhouse Plants
Current Reservations
Testimonials
 
Flasks of
Myrmecophila tibicinis 'Halcyon' × self
 
 
 
 
Number: TN2515
Name: Myrmecophila tibicinis 'Halcyon' × self
(Also commonly known as Schomburgkia tibicinis)
Type: self    (What's that?)
Seed Donor: Dale Borders
 
Click to Enlarge
Thumbnail
Pod Parent Flowers
Click to Enlarge
Thumbnail
Pod Parent Capsules at 74 days
 
 
Culture Notes from Donor: Parent plant: Temperature range I (60-83°F)
 
Comments: This species is a strong, robust grower with pseudobulbs up to 18" (46 cm) tall. Inflorescences are 6' (1.8m) tall, sometimes more. Flowers strongly, but pleasantly scented.
 
For additional origin/habitat information supplied courtesy of Charles and Margaret Baker, see further below, near the bottom of this page.

Temperatures we attempt to use in the lab & greenhouse:
For Species:   Spring, Summer, Autumn: days average 87°F, nights 68°F; best fit is Warm-Intermediate 87-64°F (Source: Baker's Web OSC)
For Species:   Winter: days average 79°F, nights 58°F; best fit is Cool-Intermediate 75-58°F (Source: Baker's Web OSC)

About the name...
Etymology of Myrmecophila   From Greek "myrmekos" ant; "phileo" love as a friend. (Source: Brown 1956)
Etymology of tibicinis   From Latin "tibicinis" flute-like. (Source: Mayr & Schmucker 1998)
Pronunciation of Myrmecophila   meer-me-KOF-i-la (Source: Hawkes 1978)
Pronunciation of tibicinis   ti-bi-SIN-is (Source: Hawkes 1978)
If you would like to direct someone to this web page, please copy and paste this URL into your email:
http://troymeyers.com/d?012515

Flask Information
Availability: Capsules failed. We were not able to make any flasks.
You should: Consider placing a "Notify Retries" Request, and if an identical pollination (the same parents) is done again, we'll let you know.
You might also want to: View items of the same species.
View items of the same genus.

Ordering Information
You are not currently logged in.
You must be a registered user and be logged in to reserve a flask or place a notification request. Please log in:
LOG IN
Registered Email Address

Password
  
Remember my login information:   (what's this for?)
  No!
  Remember email
  Remember email & password
 
 

The origin/habitat information below is supplied courtesy of Charles and Margaret Baker

The following information is based on the name of the plant provided by the donor, and assumes that the name is correct. If the plant has been misidentified, then the following information may not be correct.
This text is copyrighted by the Bakers and may not be reproduced without permission.

ORIGIN/HABITAT: Eastern Mexico southward through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and possibly Nicaragua. In Mexico, plants are found in the states of Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Yucatán. They grow in the lowlands and on the lower slopes in regions facing the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Plants grow on the surface of the ground or on trees and shrubs in sand dunes, and savannas, They are found in both humid and dry forests at up to 1950 ft. (600 m).
More about this information and the Bakers...
 
 

Go to Flasking Home Page -- Contact Us
Contents of all pages Copyright © 1999-2024. All rights reserved.