To be given an orchid "Tokyo Blue" what is it? - Orchid Board

orchidrookie44 · #1 05-05-2008, 08:21 PM

I friend of mine is giving me an orchid. He says it's a "Tokyo Blue". He doesn't know what kind of an orchid it is and had trouble describing it to me. It blooms twice a year. What am I getting...can anyone help the rookie

shams · #2 05-05-2008, 08:27 PM

I think... you will be the proud owner of a Vanda

But just to be sure, does your friend have it hanging in a basket with no medium? Sometimes people grow them in pots too, but generally a vanda doesn't need any medium at all, and like to have their roots growing free.

Oh wait! Here's a picture

Does it look like this?
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1251/...d767f6.jpg?v=0

Dorothy · #3 05-05-2008, 08:42 PM

It should be a Vanda ..
RHS (Royal Horticulture Society) has it registered as Vanda Tokyo Blue
This is what it should look like - http://www.orchideerare.com/PagineFo...VTokyoBlue.jpg
It's parents being the cross of Vanda Chindavat (a hybrid) and Vanda coerulea (a species)
Here is are the parents
Vanda Chindavat - http://www.orchidboard.com/community...chindavat.html
and Vanda coerulea - Orchid of the Week Library: Vanda coerulea

Oh it's a beauty!

Dorothy · #4 05-05-2008, 08:43 PM

Beat me to it, Niki

shams · #5 05-05-2008, 08:52 PM

Wow! I did too! You still have more info on it than I did D! And you're right... it's gorgeous... I want one!

Grandma M · #6 05-05-2008, 10:20 PM

That is a wonderful gift and a beautiful vanda. I'm sure you will enjoy it.
Marilyn

Lilandra · #7 05-05-2008, 11:02 PM

oooh! i think my mom have a tokyo blue (so says the tag). it's beautiful!

AaronM · #8 05-06-2008, 12:09 AM

Dorothy,
Is Vanda coerulea actually that nearly true blue in real life or is that a little trick photography? I have yet to see an orchid with what I would call a nearly primary blue color.
If it really is the same color as Dorothy's picture, where can I get one?

AaronM

AaronM · #9 05-06-2008, 12:13 AM

Never mind. I went on ebay and looked at some other pictures that haven't been touched up like a magazine spread. The V. coerulea pictures all showed a flower that should have been named V. lavendera.

AaronM

BikerDoc5968 · #10 05-06-2008, 09:03 AM

Hey, Dorothy, not that I question your parentage, because you're NEVER wrong

And just because I'm a doctor, which doesn't mean I'm smart...it just means I went to school forever...how is it that the cross looks so much like the species parent and hasn't shown any of the hybrid parent? I understand Mendelian genetics but there isn't any presents of the hybrid parent????!!! So educate this brain-dead Doc