Surprise to all

[veekay]

Hi Guys,
Here is a surprise to all,my friend flowered a pileatum ,the description is on the image and it was taken by Blackberry phone,
I would take my Nikon f100 slr camera with me and do the photographs on Friday ,if the the pollen is still in the flower.
Kindly comment on the flowers.
regards
veekay
Note: Please note that there is a correction in name of the catasetum,it should read catasetum pileatum(Imperialis X pecas)
veekay

[marydaniellesantos]

That is gorgeous! Are you or your friend going to pollinate it?

Thank you for sharing! I would love to see more pics!

[natasha]

wow! love the color!!!

[Oscarman]

very nice veekay, awesome colors

[kavanaru]

wow! Gorgeous!! very nice plant and very well grown! Congratulations to your friend...

P.S.- what is Ctsm. Pecas?

Originally Posted by marydaniellesantos

That is gorgeous! Are you or your friend going to pollinate it?

Mary, this plant cannot be pollinated as it is now. All those flowers are male flowers. Catasetum has unisexual flowers, which are normally separated in time: a plant produces either male or female flowers each time (being male flowers more common than female ones). Sometimes, but notvery often one plant can produce female and male spikes at the same time, or even both kind offlowers on teh same spike, but this is quite rare. From time to time, you can also finf hermafrodite flowers.

Female flowers of pileatum (and of most Catasetum species) look like this one:

Photo from Afriorchids in Flickr. If you click onit you should be redirected to his gallery.

[veekay]

Originally Posted by marydaniellesantos

That is gorgeous! Are you or your friend going to pollinate it?

Thank you for sharing! I would love to see more pics!

Thanks we may use this plant as pollen donar.
veekay

[veekay]

Hi Kavanaru,
Thanks for the mail.I found the English translation for the word peca and it means freckles.
veekay

[kavanaru]

Originally Posted by veekay

Hi Kavanaru,
Thanks for the mail.I found the English translation for the word peca and it means freckles.
veekay

HI Veekay I know. spanish is my potehr tongue and pecas is also spanish... I was wondering more what "Ctsm. Pecas" is? the shown plant and your post indicates that the shown plant is Catasetum pileatum, however, the way it is labelled on the photo indicates a hybrid

P.S.- I see you have edited the name now

[marydaniellesantos]

Originally Posted by veekay

Thanks we may use this plant as pollen donar.
veekay

Oh wow, please let me know! I'm very interested!

[marydaniellesantos]

Originally Posted by kavanaru

wow! Gorgeous!! very nice plant and very well grown! Congratulations to your friend...

P.S.- what is Ctsm. Pecas?




Mary, this plant cannot be pollinated as it is now. All those flowers are male flowers. Catasetum has unisexual flowers, which are normally separated in time: a plant produces either male or female flowers each time (being male flowers more common than female ones). Sometimes, but notvery often one plant can produce female and male spikes at the same time, or even both kind offlowers on teh same spike, but this is quite rare. From time to time, you can also finf hermafrodite flowers.

Female flowers of pileatum (and of most Catasetum species) look like this one:

Photo from Afriorchids in Flickr. If you click onit you should be redirected to his gallery.

LOL. And that is exactly why I don't pollinate. I'll stick to the germination process...