catasetum species

[cb977]

I also had the honor to see the first 'Pierre Couret

That one is fantastic!

[kavanaru]

Originally Posted by cb977

That one is fantastic!

yes... and I think I finally managed to get one in Europe late this summer... it has not bloomed yet as the plant is a bit young, but I have seen pictures of another plant bought under the same name from the same nursery, and WOW WOW WOW exactly as I reember the first 'Pierre Couret', which, by the way, was imported to France, "cloned" there, and distributed for the rest of the world... Funny thing is that this plant is quite difficult to get in Europe (I have the feeling Catasetinae are not quite popular here), and also many of the plants normally seen sold as 'Pierre Couret' are actually anything wth some red in it...

[Bruno De Toni]

No doubts this plant is really spectacular, it is hard to find a color combination like this. Ramon gave a very good explanation about the complex hibridization process of this plant in its natural environment, the only opinion that I have regarding this one is that the blooming spike is very short and quite erect, that makes me think that it may have some others genes in it (I may be wrong). The pilaetums that I have seen they have a long falling spike and flowers regularly spaced along of it. Again is just a speculative observation.

[veekay]

Originally Posted by Jan Pahl

The flower have a very beautiful but very unusual color pattern, in fact a Catasetum-lover friend from Caracas told me once that all "bicolored" and "wine colored" pileatums show at expos had to be more complex man-made hybrids just because In nature the "red" color is always present in the pileum and the petals with no discrimination between both (something I agree with Kanavaru) On the other hand sometimes tapiriceps show bicolored patterns like red in petals and yellow in the pileum, or white in petals and yellow in the pileum, and since "red","purple dotted" and "yellow" pileatums have some tapiriceps genes on it, is quite possible that bicolored patterns will eventually show

Nevertheless I have to quote that Alexis Pardo, in his article "El Género Catasetum en Venezuela" (Orquideophilo vol8, Nº2 Page 8) show a photo that is exactly a mirror image of your pileatum..... and Alexis call it pileatum and not some sort of pileatum with expansum or who-knows-what genes on it.

Jan

Thank you for the message,you right about pileatum 'shfina' did came from Alexis,then to my friend who presently own the plant and my friend to me.
I have done sib cross of this plant with my other catsm.pileatum (A X P), also from Alexis Pardo.
I have seven seedlings,three seedlings have given flowers for me,they are quite lovely.
I would post all the images some time soon.
veekay

[betoguerrero]

Beautifull!!!! This Chid take my words away...