I appreciate your comments guys. I always manage to feel kind of inferior here when I see all your plants

Gina, are you kidding!? Inferior? 😄 Your greenhouse is amazing, and everything you grow in there, is really special!💕

Oh please. Don't think of it as inferior. You just grow a lot of different plants and some of them happen to be orchids. Your collection makes me so jealous!!
Between you, Lindsey, Elaine and Ursula, you guys grow my butt upside down, inside out, backwards and forwards!!
You do nothing but add strongly to the site, these threads, and our collective plant knowledge!

Everyone brings different knowledge, different experiences, and collectively we are better with everyone involved. ❤️

I saw this paph a few days ago at teh San Atonio Botanical Garden. No tag

It is Paphiopedilum glaucophyllum.

@sedumzz I think this an interesting bloom

It looks peloric! Having 3 lips?
Just curious, was this the only bloom on that plant looking like that?

Interesting? Well that is one word for it.
Mis-shapened is another. Clasped petals is another term to describe it.

It is a shame though. Peloric forms of orchids are so pretty, somewhat rare, and commonly have reversions in form. I hope that this is only temporary.

No? I forgot, I think all of them on 1 stalk had 3, on another stock had 5. It was labeled Cattleya intermediate, so ID is correct I think.

Bigbill, thanks for ID! I will move Imaggy!!!
I have a noid orchid here: So interesting, but bad photo. Just genus is fine I have a few other IDs

Is this a giant Bulbophyllum falcatum?

So this one crazy intermediate bloom wasn't a fluke!

I know, all you need is genus.


Your unknown is a Bulbophyllum. It is one of the species that has the flowers arranged on a 'rachis'. But since it is so out of focus, it is impossible to go any further then that.

I appreciate your kind comments! Hopefully soon I'll have a nice photo to share with yall on what else we grow...I am getting 2 rhizomes on Friday from Hawaii of a heliconia I have wanted to grow for over 20 years. Heliconia indica cv Spectabilis. I hope I can make them go! Wish I had a photo to show, Google would give you an idea

Ursula said: Is this a giant Bulbophyllum falcatum?

So this one crazy intermediate bloom wasn't a fluke!

Yes you can see some of the others on the side in this photo::


Thank you for the ID ! I thinj bulbophyppim are sooo cute!!
Do you know what thus is?







I also saw a super duper cool vanda pakchong blue!!!!

I would have to say that it is probably a species of Gongora. But I can't be 100 % sure.

I added the blue Vanda to the Orchid forum info-box, since it was a nice and clear pic.
Don't mind me saying so, one does like to see pics in the database which add information and are also visually nice/interesting. I thought that one fit the bill.

:thankyou:where is the info box?

Sedumzz,
Go to the homepage of the Orchid forum. On my IPad it is to the right of the page.
Here is the top part of the page

On my IPhone it is at the bottom of the page, below our threads.

So I have this blooming too. What is it? Seems to be the same as already shown by others. I have always thought it was Dend loddigesii

If you are comparing yours to Prabhi's Den, the one thing that really sticks out for me are the canes. Prabhi's are bare of leaves, yours is still green.
I would think yours is loddigesii.
@BigBill ?

Well, I remember loddigesii blooming on both leafed and leafless canes. It just has seldom more then one or two flowers together. The canes typically are very slender, Prahbi's were a bit fatter.
Loddigesii will bloom Spring and Fall with there being more blooms this time of year.
But those gorgeous little frilly lipped blossoms are so cute and colorful. But I can find no reason to think that it is not loddigesii! Nice job Gina!!

Nice Job is right!
I tried several plants of Den loddegesii through the years, I think I managed 1 single bloom. I could grow the plant reasonably ok, but they refused to bloom for me. I could never figure them out!

Leafed out canes and bare canes - hmm maybe I never got the seasons right!