This is a cross of Renanthera phillippinense and Rhynchostylis gigantea alba.
Showing posts with label alba. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alba. Show all posts
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Renanstylis Susan Lim 'Howdy Doody'
This is a cross of Renanthera phillippinense and Rhynchostylis gigantea alba.
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Bletia patula Graham 1836 a flower without any trace of pigmentation
Monday, April 3, 2017
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Dendrobium purpureum Roxb. 1820 var. alba, first blooming 2016
This is the first time this plant has bloomed for me. The plant is still small, I expect that as it get bigger the inflorescences will be larger and fuller.
Friday, May 6, 2016
These colonies of Sphatoglottis plicata and Spa. plicata var. alba were obliterated when the road was repaired from damage
These orchids were growing on a fern prairie next to highest point of highway 10 in Puerto Rico. Unfortunately, the road on this spot, started cracking and slumping. A massive rework of the down slope side of the road was done to protect the road from further damage and to repair it. The whole area was denued and reshaped. Some day I will return to see if the orchids have returned. However these particular orchids are abundant in the extreme in certain estreches of this road. In this places even constant removal of plants by people that stop to uproot them, seems to make no dent in the populations.
Saturday, June 6, 2015
Anacheilium cochleatum Hoffmannsegg 1842, an alba form
Seen at the Mayaguez orchid festival May 2015.
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Encyclia cordigera var alba
Photographed at the 2014 Ponce Orchid society show in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Friday, September 27, 2013
Bletia patula var alba Hawkes 1950, a rare sighting
| Fully mature flower |
| Newly opened flower |
I had heard of Bletia
patula alba for many years but had never seen one “in the flesh”. Yesterday in the Mayaguez Orchid festival I
finally was able to see one. A plant of
this type was awarded by the AOS many years ago, but so far as I know that
plant was lost. I found a very pale form
of this species in the wild some years ago, but in all my field trips I have
never seen an alba in the wild. In some
areas of Arecibo I have seen fields where there were thousands of plants but
all of them were uniformly colored. I
would hope that this clone will be selfed and the seed sown or some divisions
are distributed among hobbyists so that it is not lost again.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Psychilis krugii, a form of the species with no purple color.
Psychilis krugii is an orchid that is endemic of Puerto RIco, it is mostly found in the southwestern part of the island. In the 2012 PR orchid society show there was an area dedicated to native orchids. Among the various species on display there was this plant of Psychilis krugii with white green flowers. The flower lacked the characteristic purple red colors that typical Psy, krugii has on the column and the lip. Typically plants that lack anthocyanins, and therefore are green/white are classified as albas. But taxonomic rules are explicit, you just describe a plant as "var. alba" if there is just a single plant of the type, as this classification implies that there are a number of plants that share the alba characteristic, not just a single clone. When I saw this plant I thought it was a very rare mutation, since I had never seen one on the wild, but since then, thanks to facebook, I have seen photos elsewhere of plants that look identical to this one, including a plant "in situ". I have a botanist friend that is already interested in this orchid so we hopefully we will see a description of it in the future.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Vanda sanderiana var. alba
An impressive plant of Vanda sanderiana var. alba. Unfortunately I could not take a photo that would make justice to the beauty of this plant due to the way it was oriented on the exhibit.
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