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New month

Thanks for starting a new thread with such a very pretty picture!!

We have no Moderator right now.

Come on guys...need you to encourage Ursula!

I think she should be our fearless leader and Moderator here on the Orchid forum!!

We NEED her!!!

I hope everybody is ok with that, if not please yell!!
I am now officially our moderator and I understand that I will have some big shoes to fill, as Kathy always did a great job.

Good, I certainly vote yes for Ursula.

Here is my Little Stars plant. It outdid itself this year.

Jim

Shining bright, Jim! Playing with new iPhone like a kid with new toy....

Thanks Ursula. Let me know if I can help.

Thanks!!
Kathy, I will yell if I need help!! For sure!
Jim, your B. Little Stars looks great! Yours is way ahead of mine.

I took some pictures today, I have some repeat bloomers here.
The first one is a true mini, the cute blooms are in the mm size range - Platystele stenostachya, this one never quit blooming all Summer long.


Another teensy little thing, but this one is still a tiny plant.
Pleurothallis lanceola


Sigmatostalix unguiculata is also a mini and the silly blooms are always a delight.


and then there is the Lc not Irene Finney with more blooms (and another spike popping through the sheath.)


Blc George King 'Serendipity' opened a second spike


I haven't posted my Angraecum distichum for a while, what would I do without the Rajasthani fellow.... It was loaded with little blooms this morning.


Ceratostylis philippinensis 'Parkside' CCM/AOS is a happy camper this month. And the little blooms are fragrant.



and Mediocalcar decoratum is showing a few 'candy-corns'

Ursula, great show with a wonderful variety. If I had to pick a favorite, it would be the Ceratostylis.

Here is Potinara Eye Candy 'Sweet Sensation'.

Jim

Thanks Jim. The Ceratostylis is not too fussy at all!

Cute Potinara!! Nice contrast.

C. purp

Bree, you mean Laelia purpurata?

Yeah but I thought it changed to Cattleya

It did!

Yikes!! What is the world coming too!!!!
But, nice blooms, Bree!!

With reference to the parade of name changes, I agree with Ursula...YIKES!

Jim

How is it that a plant that has been a Laelia it's whole life now
is suddenly called Cattleya? Did the experts discover some new
exciting development in the flower anatomy? Or was this mis- named
all along?


Mtssa. Kauai's Choice 'Tropical Fragance' AM/AOS
I think this is the most difficult to photograph flower I've ever been confronted with.
I would love to hear how you take pictures of such a dark bloom. I have no light
other than natural sunlight.

If the experts had indeed changed the name for a really good reason, one certainly should honor the new name I think. But, who knows why this one is now a Cattleya. Many of these name changes seem to be willy-nilly.

I know they changed the names of some Iris , they said because they have new Genetic testing that identifies related genera.
Much like DNA paternity testing.