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That’s downright ridiculous!!!

Phal hygrochila (Hygrochilus parishii, Vandopsis parishii)
 

A victim of the "name games" - to me it looks a lot more like a Vanda than a Phal. And a root machine. I was very sad when I broke a gorgeous new root tip while moving the plant to take a photo of it with a better background (in mid-June, I posted it in the Vandaceous sub-forum, family portrait with Phal Little One). But look what happened - the broken root now has TWO beautiful green root tips!

And it is still in bloom (though just starting to lose a few of the oldest flowers.)

roots only take a few months to grow, flowers take years :biggrin: but those are such fast growing roots that pot will be filled in 6 months time.

Ps: Roberta, your "phal" looks a lot like a vanda parishii. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if it had that as a parent at least.

Ain't it though?!:rofl:

It is definitely a species, not hybrid...

At the moment it is lumped into Phalaenopsis. Along with a lot of other things that look nothing like a Phalaenopsis. I looked it all up in Orchidwiz... V. parishii is yet another synonym for Phal. hygrochila . Clearly the taxonomists have trouble with this one... for awhile it was Hygrochilus parishii, the only species in the genus. Well, the trend is away from monotypic (single species) genera so they look for where else to put it. Why it (and for that matter, Sedirea, the other parent of Little One) were put in Phalaenopsis rather than Vanda, I leave to the boffins. (I love that little British-ism, especially fits here)

Just for grins, I took a screenshot of the Orchidwiz list of the names under which it has been known., with dates and references. The one with the green check mark is the nom du jour. Note that RHS has moved all of the hybrid registrations that involve this species into Phal. hygrochila.

Alas, the Rev. Charles Samuel Pollock Parish, whose name used to grace the species, got lost in the shuffle.

I know this is about roots so I did add a couple of roots in my pic :biggrin: but it's mainly about my root protector I have decided to name bob. He was sent from the underworld to cast any thrips or spider mites into oblivion and he has been busy making himself a cobweb fortress in my cymbidium pot.

So meet bob, anyone afraid of creepy crawlies, look away.

Bob is cute! Maybe Bobbie though? (Male spiders do spin webs, but females do it more...)

Well-hung Vanda Chulee Blue Classic No. 5 (the roots are all alive).http://scidmore.com/images/Vanda%20Roots.jpg

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Fully erect Phaleanopsis
http://scidmore.com/images/Phalaenopsis%20Root.jpg

I bought this C warscewiczii last year and was a small 3 bulb back division with a new lead which a rat promptly ate (seen in front of the picture). I was worried it wasn’t going to make through the winter (one of the few plants I’m willing to move indoors) especially since it was potted in sphagnum.

I prefer a very open mixture and this spring I saw a new lead on one of the back bulbs and new root growth. I promptly moved it to a orchiata/large perlite/fine perlite mix around end of May I think. This is all the root growth since then.

https://i.imgur.com/4IcituZ.jpg