This little guy we picked up on top of a trash heap (which only involved some minor tire squealing once we spotted it), has finally bloomed after a whole year of recovery.
From the bloom, I'm guessing its a Phal San Luca.
I picked it up out of the trash heap from a newly-sold house that had stood empty on our block for the last 4 months. My reconstruction is that the agent bought a few plants to spruce up the interior and then they never got watered while the agent was showing the place.
The phal had a lot going for it when I found it. The leaves were parched and a little burned but the roots, even though in standing water when I found them, were healthy looking and had not started to rot. I don't think they had been in water for long. When I got home I dried him off and put him in with the other orchids. He was soon guzzling a lot of fertilizer and making roots.
[ April 4th. Update,
in full bloom.]
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