Gongora cassidea - Orchid Board

coz2001 · #1 10-10-2013, 04:39 PM

Smells orange-ish really nice.

isurus79 · #2 10-10-2013, 08:50 PM

I'm not familiar with this species. Thanks for showing, I really like it!

IncurablePlantHead · #3 10-10-2013, 09:12 PM

Wow that's unusual....and looks really appropriate for the season. Resemble a pile of harvest pumpkins and a nice fragrance to boot!

euplusia · #4 10-11-2013, 11:31 AM

A well grown plant, lovely flowers of contrasting colours, love it. An unusual species.
I put a question mark behind the species epithet cassidea. I do not think so, even if Jay Pfahl shows in his orchidspecies site a similar coloured plant with the name cassidea. In this particular case I go with Rudolf Jenny and his Swiss Orchid Foundation Site, orchid.unibas.ch. Mr. Jenny has studied Gongora species over decades and has even written a monograph about Gongora.
I think that you have Gongora amparoana.
I purchased an identical plant many years ago labelled Gongora cassidea in Germany, and only when I flowered a cassidea and compared them, I was able to identify my first one as Gongora amparoana.

tuvoc · #5 10-11-2013, 11:53 AM

Cool.

Kim

coz2001 · #6 10-11-2013, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by euplusia

A well grown plant, lovely flowers of contrasting colours, love it. An unusual species.
I put a question mark behind the species epithet cassidea. I do not think so, even if Jay Pfahl shows in his orchidspecies site a similar coloured plant with the name cassidea. In this particular case I go with Rudolf Jenny and his Swiss Orchid Foundation Site, orchid.unibas.ch. Mr. Jenny has studied Gongora species over decades and has even written a monograph about Gongora.
I think that you have Gongora amparoana.
I purchased an identical plant many years ago labelled Gongora cassidea in Germany, and only when I flowered a cassidea and compared them, I was able to identify my first one as Gongora amparoana.

Thank you for letting me know euplusia, I only looked at some google pictures and its really hard to tell but your probably right

This is the only thing I don't like about the orchid hobby mislabeled plants.

euplusia · #7 10-11-2013, 07:32 PM

Nor do I like mislabeled plants, and I put a lot of efforts in identification. But sometimes it is very specific and reliable sources are hard to get by, so I don't want to blame the vendor.
For your comparison I post pics and a dissected flower of my cassidea.

coz2001 · #8 10-12-2013, 02:19 AM

So mine will be Gongora amparoana am I right?

I post a link for future viewers of your Gongora cassidea.

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...-cassidea.html