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12-15-2013, 10:57 PM
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Stanhopea oculator or ?
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12-16-2013, 01:13 AM
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The stanhopeaculture blog says it should smell like vanilla/mint/chocolate, and that the color and spots can be variable.
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12-16-2013, 06:47 PM
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Looks like oculata to me. I have a tough time telling it apart from some of its close cousins though.
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12-16-2013, 11:53 PM
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What does it smell like?
I have a Stanhopea wardii that looks similar, a mostly white background instead of the usual yellow. It smells blatantly of white TicTac candies.
This is my wardii, confirmed 2x including by the grower. Yours looks similar, but also looks a lot like the occulata x wardii hybrids.
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12-17-2013, 12:49 AM
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No clue but absolutely totally gorgeous!
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12-18-2013, 04:41 AM
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I'm sorry I can't recall the smell as it had bloomed months ago. I think there was a distinct vanilla sweet smell to it. JungleMel, are you sure that's a wardii? I have wardii and it looks nothing like that. I guess oculata is a highly variable species. I did some more research, I thought it was a dodsoniana but now leaning more towards oculata.
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12-19-2013, 12:09 AM
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You'd be best off sending pictures of it to an expert, rather than trying to ID it yourself. Many Stanhopeas labeled and bred as species in the US are actually hybrids. Mine was confirmed to be wardii, but I'm not an expert, so no I'm not sure it's wardii. Know what I mean? There's a few experts in Stanhopeas around with contact info on the internet, or you could ask for an ID from the person you got it from?
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12-25-2013, 04:44 PM
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Awesome flower, nice photo angles!!!
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01-06-2014, 02:06 PM
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Nice spots!!! The scents on these stanhopeas sounds divine.
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01-18-2014, 09:01 PM
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@ JungleMel :
There are 2 experts on Stanhopeinae, but these gentlemen are too busy to be able to answer such questions.
Though I am not an expert, you might take it from me anyway  :
>> the above photographs show flowers of Stanhopea oculata, and flowers of S. oculata are indeed rather small.
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