Ctsm. De Etta Harris 'Green Goddess'

[Jmoney]

I have grown a number of green orchids over the years, including paphs, catts, even a cymbidium and a neofinetia or two, but nothing I have seen in person has been anywhere remotely as green as these flowers. Just a rich, solid, deep green. This came from SVO and was selected and named by Fred.

These pics are from 9/2024, currently in spike again. Putting the pollen on a green FDK but thus far not successful!

(The green is a tad darker with flash but even in natural light it is much greener than anything I've grown).

[isurus79]

Ohh, that's cool! If you have time, I'd love to see this in natural sunlight! Flash just doesn't do it justice.

[Jmoney]

I promise I will take natural light pics next time! The current spike faded pretty quickly - I took pollen from 3 flowers to keep trying that FDK cross and the other flowers must have shot off the pollinia in short order. Or maybe the fungus gnats did it...

[WaterWitchin]

Wowza! Now that is GREEN!

I don't usually care much for the "green" colored blooms of anything, but would sure make an exception for that!