Showing posts with label lilac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lilac. Show all posts
Friday, October 11, 2024

Cattleya Monte Elegante 'Hsin Pu'

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  I photographed this orchid at this month meeting of the PR orchid judging center.  The plant was tall, had immaculate pseudobulbs and the ...
Monday, October 7, 2024

A cross of Lc. Lory Ann 'Paradise' x Myrmecophila lyonsii

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  This cross of Lc. Lory Ann 'Paradise' and Myrmecophila lyonsii is a large plant that produces a head of lilac colored flowers.  T...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Calanthe rubens Ridl. 1890

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I used to grow many plants of Calanthe rubens .  They would put a beautiful show in early winter.  However eventually I gave all my pl...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Cattleya intermedia Graham 1828, a plant in my garden.

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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Brassocattleya Maikai,(Brassavola nodosa x Cattleya bowringiana) easy to grow in Puerto Rico

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This common hybrid is easy to grow outside in coastal Puerto Rico.  If given regular fertilization and plenty of sun it will bloom abu...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Rhyncholaelia digbyana x Cattleya Atalanta

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An exceedingly old cross, this plant only bloomed for me when exposed to full sunlight for a few hours each morning.  Unfortunately I los...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

Psychilis krugii Sauleda, Psy kraenzlinii (Bello) Sauleda y Psy. x raganii

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Psy. x raganii, hybrid of Psy. kraenzlinii and Psy. krugii Psy. kraenzlinii Psy. krugii
Saturday, May 7, 2016

Dendrobium tortile Lindley 1847, twelve years from keiki to bloom!

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In April 2004 my friend Caridad brought a plant of this species in bloom to a meeting of the Mayaguez orchid society.  I admired th...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Dendrobium Love Memory "Fizz" close up of a single flower

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Dendrobium trantuanii Perner & Dang 2003

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I brought this orchid about a year and a half ago.  Compared with my other Dendrobium this plant has been a slow, deliberate grower.  Th...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Cattleya nobilior Rchb.f 1883

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This plant was brought to the April 10 meeting of the AOS judges on Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Friday, April 8, 2016

Caulaelia Orchidglade (Caularthron bicornutum x Laelia undulata)

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I saw this plant in the 2016 Puerto Rico Orchid Society show.  I was surprised when I found who the parents of this hybrid were because a...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

Paphiopedilum Song of Love (Paph lowii x Paph. liemianum) this is a first bloom seedling

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This is a first bloom of a plant I brought from Carter and Holmes some time ago.  Paphiopedilum are not really that popular in Puerto R...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Bollopetalum Midnight Blue (Zygopetalum Arthur Elle x Zygopetalum Skippy Ku)

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I saw this hybrid on the December meeting of the Orquidistas de Puerto Rico.  These types of hybrids are not that common in the island...
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Friday, February 13, 2015

Psychilis kraenzlinii (Bello) Sauleda 1988, from the north coast of Puerto Rico

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This is Psychilis x raganii , sometimes shown as Psy. kraenzlinii Note the different coloring These are the first flowers of ...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Epidendrum ackermanii Hágsater 2004, in Maricao, the inflorescence of a plant growing under the shade of a Clusia rosea

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Most flowers of this species are a pale lilac color, this inflorescence had unusually deep colored flowers.  I saw this plant in the Maricao...
Sunday, September 7, 2014

Schomburgkia undulata Lindley 1841 now Laelia undulata

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I brought this plant many years ago from Tropical Orchid Farm which is in Hawaii. 
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Friday, June 20, 2014

Sobralia callosa L.O. Williams 1946

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This is the first blooming in my garden of this orchid.  The color is impressively bright and eyecatching.  This orchid bloomed at the sa...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Bulbophyllum facetum Garay 1997

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  This is the first blooming of this philippine endemic in my collection.  Compared with other members of the sestochilus section of Bulb...
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Thursday, May 22, 2014

Dendrobium Fulum, an "antilope" Dendrobium hybrid

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I photographed this plant in the garden of Edna Hamilton of St. Croix.  The plant is remarkable, not only for the beauty of its flower...