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How to pot orchids, orchid composts - The North of England Orchid Society
... the right is very much in need of attention, the old growths could do with a clean up and the old papery sheaths on them should be removed to cheat any insect pests from ... has now been cleaned up, the old papery sheaths removed and some of the old roots removed, but as this is a cattleya, at least four of the old pseudobulbs have been retained to ensure ...
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Bamboo
... solid parenchyma tissue. Bamboos are widespread throughout the Old and New World tropics, with one species (Arundinaria gigantea) ... it consists of a series of tightly overlapping protective sheaths surrounding the developing nodes and internodes (each sheath ... ) of yellow-groove bamboo (Phyllostachys aureosulcata), consisting of minute papery bracts (lemma and palea) which enclose an ovule-bearing ...
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The World of Gourds
... members of the diverse gourd family. The seeds have two papery wing membranes and become airborne like a glider when released ... , honey dew, santa claus, casaba and banana come from the Old World Cucumis melo. The remarkable variety of melons certainly includes ... an important social function. Men In New Guinea Wearing Penis Sheaths Where To Purchase A Penis Sheath Gourd References: Armstrong, W.P. ...
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Floridata: Chamaedorea seifrizii
... fronds each with about 12 dark green pinnate leaflets. As the old fronds die, these should be trimmed off and the leaf bases ... and fruit in these environments. The flowers arise from the leaf sheaths or covering and are dull yellow in color. The fruits are ... . microspadix (hardy bamboo palm) is very similar in look but has larger, papery-textured leaves and can be grown outdoors in frost-prone areas ...
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How to Grow the Garlic herb.
... were found chiseled into a clay Sumerian tablet that was more than 3,000 years old. Garlic is a key ingredient to a wide variety of recipes, and is quickly becoming ... weather is wet in early August, pull up one bulb and see how many sheaths (very thin papery layers around the bulb) you can peel off the bulb - if there are only ...
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CSSA Newsletters #11
... until the conditions no longer pose a threat (mid-November). Conophytum should be tearing through papery sheaths and can be misted regularly to encourage growth. Their flower buds look like little inverted ... . The dangers associated with potting up are that the plant is still living with the old soil, debris and toxins that persist. Furthermore, the roots may be stressed from being pot ...
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Laelia tenebrosa Culture
... sheaths that become dry and papery with age. The robust plants sometimes have a purplish brown tint on the pseudobulbs and leaves. Some growers indicate that plants seldom become large since an old ... , including an alba form with green sepals and petals and a white lip. The very old cultivar 'Walton Grange' has nankeen-yellow sepals and petals and a white lip decorated with ...
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Jay's Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia B - Br
... Parlat 1860 SUBFAMILY Orchidoideae, TRIBE Orchideae, SUBTRIBE Orchidinae. There are two species in this old world intermediate to cool growing, terrestrial genus that arise from buried root stem, ovoid ... grows cool to cold as a small epiphyte with stout ascending rhizomes covered with papery sheaths, compressed, narrowly oblong-ovate pseudobulbs with 1-2 fleshy leaves. The flowers have inflated ...
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Jay's Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia A&B
... tubers with a leafy, glabrous stem with papery basal sheaths carrying oblong-lanceloate to ovate-elliptic, obtuse ... sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear-lanceolate, thin textured, acute leaf that blooms on an axillary, erect, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, loosely many flowered, racemose inflorescence with papery ... large branches and trunks as well as old bushes and smaller trees in hot woodlands with ...
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Difficult Mesembs
... sheaths, most growers think: I have done something wrong, thus plant should not grow now. But in fact conos are perfectly happy to grow from midsummer onwards. As soon as their old leaves have been reduced to a papery shell, the new leaves can emerge, encouraged by a few light waterings ...
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