Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi fma. chattaladae #2

This is another plant of Phal. cornu-cervi fma. chattaladae. The flower on this plant is thicker and the color is more intense.

Coelogyne trinervis

This is a medium sized coelogyne that can be found in Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam as well as Sumatra so it is quite widespread. The flower has a musky fragrance which some people may dislike.

Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi fma. chattaladae

A very good specimen of Phal. cornu-cervi fma. chattaladae. The color is solid dark maroon and evenly distributed without lines of uneven color. A plant with darker colored flower is opening soon. I will post the pic when the flower opens.

Phalaenopsis Chan Chee Meng x lamelligera

This is a hybrid made by Mr. Lim Song using his Phal. Chan Chee Meng and lamelligera. Phal. Chan Chee Meng is usually pure yellow and the lamelligera imparted very striking dark red bars onto the yellow making this a very stunning hybrid.

Dendrobium aphyllum

This very beautiful dendrobium flowered again. I think this Dendrobium flower more than once a year, unlike Den. anosmum which usually flower around February.

Paphiopedilum Western Sky x helenae

Just got them from Song Orchids.

Paph. Western Sky is a complex hybrid with insigne, charlesworthii, Leeanum, spicerianum etc in its parentage. Very messy to trace. Paph. helenae is a cute little orange coloured paph from northern Vietnam that requires cooler conditions than spicerianum. Hopefully having such a complex parentage would result in the plant being more tolerant to warmer conditions. One of the plant i selected is greenish with a purple line in the middle of the petals and sepals whereas the other is the usual form.

Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi var 'Red'

This is a normal red cornu-cervi which came from thailand. There has been some confusion over the red variety and the chattaladae variety. The true chattaladae variety is very expensive and costs more than a thousand singapore dollars for a medium sized plant, about $1400. It is cheaper if you fly to thailand and bring it in yourself through the proper channels. It will cost you about $900 including your air-ticket and you get a nice holiday. A very good red will set you back one to two hundred dollars. A normal red is about $30-$50. I will post the picture of cornu-cervi var. chattaladae when mine flowers.

Phalaenopsis bellina

A rounded bellina from LMH nursery many years ago. Generally the bigger and more rounded the flowers are, the more expensive is the plant. However, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and there are some growers who collects plants with 'ugly' features such as backward curving petals, thin petals or inward curving lateral sepals. These traits are found in most plants collected from the wild many years ago. Nowadays, wild plants are fast disappearing due to over collection and destruction of natural habitat.

phalaenopsis lamelligera

These two Phal. lamelligeras are in flower now. One of them has bold markings while the other has a mixture of blotches and stripes. This species is very similar to Phal. cornu-cervi.