Den. Golden Aya (aphrodite x capillipes) Always blooms in the spring. Seems to be deciduous everywhere but in my greenhouse. Lots of buds on this plant in an 8″ basket. Hundreds of flowers soon. Smells like an Easter basket full of candy. Flower display lasts about 2 weeks. If I have seedlings or pieces of this plant available on the catalog they will be listed there as DPE1457, but otherwise this is just a pretty picture from my greenhouse posted in my red tag journal.

Here is another plant that could also show up in front of judges. The tag reads P. Green Pixie “Ever Green”. And they are clearly clones of a well selected cultivar. This one actually has a ‘cultivar name’ even if it is enclosed in “regular” quote marks. Sadly there is no such registered Grex called Phal Green Pixie. There is one registered as Phal I-Lan Green Pixie (Phalaenopsis Su-An Cricket x Phalaenopsis Timothy Christopher) and the plant in this picture looks a lot like I would expect a very nice clonable sibling of this cross to look like. But that is just a guess on my part. There is also an I-Lan Green Apple and an I-Lan Green Jewel to consider but if it is one of these three, then it is probably the one with Timothy Christopher as the daddy.

Here is another one of those Taiwanese mericlones. The tag reads “P. Sunrise Star.” There is no cultivar name, but they are identical, so they must be clones. Orchidwiz has an entry for a plant it calls: Dtps Sunrise Star (Dtps Chia Lin x Dtps Tinny Honey). It is registered by Sunrise biotech with the RHS. Nice bright yellow flower with a solid red lip. There is a little fading of the yellow pigment in older flowers. Got about a dozen of these right now. As of this writing (03/4/10), these are not shippable because they are in full bud and bloom. If there are any left later in the year after the flowering season they will show up in my catalog using the tag number DPE2582.

Need a tropical fix? Inside the greenhouse it is a sunny 74 degrees. Small waterfalls are making burbling sounds. The tree frogs are making tadpoles. And Orchids are blooming.