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DPE1353 Phal. violacea var. coerulea ‘Nancy’s Gift’

Al — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:46:35 +0000

The parents are (‘Sapphire Doll’ AM/AOS x ‘Harvey’)

DPE1309 Phal. braceana ‘Dusky Rose’

Al — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:16:05 +0000

Kind of different from my other braceana in color and shape. Still, it is labeled as a braceana and since it doesn’t fit clearly into any of the other possibilities AND since I have only seen about half a dozen P braceana up close and personal, I don’t feel qualified to say if is correctly identified. Here’s what I will say: It keys out to be P braceana it just manages to look different while doing it.

DPE1200 Phal. braceana ‘Brown Dwarf’

Al — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:12:53 +0000

A very dark flower on a miniature plant. The flower has a “meaty” fragrance that reminds me of a meat peptide used in orchid flasking media. Yummm.

DPE0937 Phal. Distant Star ‘A’

Al — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:52:32 +0000

The parents are (Be Glad ‘Powder Puff’ x venosa ‘Summer Time’). This plant blooms all the time. It also has one of those traits that people who see it love and judges do not like. It’s color fades as the flowers age which creates the effect of different colored flowers on the same inflorescence.

DPE0224 Rnthps. Penang Miami

Al — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:55:02 +0000

The parents are (Ren Kalsom 4n x Phal. equestris) I got this plant from Peter Lin at Big Leaf Orchids almost a decade ago. Alas, it did not survive the fire.

DPE0204 Phal. Fantasy Musick ‘Lemon Lip’

Al — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:17:29 +0000

The parents are (Micro Nova x equestris var. alba). All the other offspring in this grex that I saw bloom had anthocyanin pigments in the lip that masked the yellow. Not only is ‘Lemon Lip’ missing these pigments it is partially peloric; the yellow from the lip shows up in the petals.

DPE0220 Phal. equestris var. aurea ‘Big Yellow’

Al — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:09:02 +0000

DPE0623 Phal. cochlearis ‘Leesburg’

Al — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:09:09 +0000

DPE0605 Phal. violacea ‘Millie’

Al — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:22:15 +0000

This cultivar is twice the size of other P violaceas I have. It’s flowers have somewhat green tips and are larger than the other violaceas too. It was sold to me as Phal viridis but it’s first bloom ruled that out. My belief is that ‘Millie’ is an example of what Eric Christenson, in his book “Phalaenopsis a Monograph” identified as a distinct population of P violacea from the island of Mentawai. Although, while it does have the very long inflorescences that this population is said to have, it also has a ”somewhat flattened and fleshy rachis.” So I don’t know. Whatever. It is clearly a violacea.

DPE1246 Phal. honghenensis ‘Mr. Tippit’

Al — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:54:28 +0000