This was one tough plant to capture! Me and the wife spent about an hour with it playing with lighting, angles, etc... Again, I can't take credit for the blooms. I placed an order with SVO on my birthday this year and this is one that I got. I was amazed when it showed up as I didn't order it in spike, just ordered off the list. At first count it had 66 buds, but a few blasted and as you can see most of the buds were damaged in shipping. But that's to be expected this time of year. The plant itself is amazing with 6 backbulbs.
Did some research on the name, found out it's named after a vampire on the series Dark Shadows, I'm not familiar with it. But I thought it was fitting that it was named after a vampire, dark wine colored blooms, hooded flowers, makes sense. The cross is Clowesia Grace Dunn 'Live Oak' HCC/AOS x mormodes tapoayensis 'SVO'
Mormodia Barnabas Collins
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