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Al's Orchid Greenhouse
204 Masons Lane S.E.
Leesburg Virginia 20175
Local to D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia
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DPE0605 Phal. violacea ‘Millie’

0605a_0This 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.

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This entry was posted on Monday, July 13th, 2009 at 12:22 pm in my Red Tag Journal where I post interesting things and pretty pictures. If it is not also found in my Online catalog and Shopping Cart., by searching the name or tag number, then it is NOT FOR SALE.

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