Sometimes I need to know how to rescue plants where I was the one doing the damage to the plant. About a year ago I was going to mount a Oncidium varicosum but put it aside and promptly forgot about it. I got tipped over and lay on its side for more than a year. The result was three pseudobulbs going one way and one pseudobulb and a new growth growing 90 degrees in a different direction.
Oncidium varicosum grows in Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. It is cool to hot growing and blooms in summer and fall with many yellow flowers on spikes up to 5 feet long. The genus Oncidium (Onc) contains 600 species from throughout Central America and South America. They grow in a wide variety of environments. If you know a little about where the species grows, they do very well in cultivation.
Now I have two small divisions, neither of which has roots. It is a good thing this bloomed once for me so I could see the flower.
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