Stanhopea nigroviolacea semi-alba?

[Rowangreen]

Pale green sepals, pink petals (with some green at the end) and lip white with pink blush towards the top. Very curious about how other people see things: do you see the green/pink bits as darker?

In some cases semi-albas result from having one copy of an alba gene and one normal. So if you selfed this it's possible you'd get some full albas resulting.

[smweaver]

Thanks again, everyone, for your comments.

Originally Posted by Rowangreen

Very curious about how other people see things: do you see the green/pink bits as darker?

I can see certain shades of red (vermillion, for example) and pink, so I could tell the tips of the petals had something in the pink range. Greens (and browns) are more problematic for me. I can see some shades of green, but they have to be very vibrant or they tend to get washed out.

My mother-in-law (God love her) is under the impression that I am, quite literally, blind to all colors. When I explained that I basically have problems with greens and browns, she looked at me sadly and asked, "So you can't see trees?" She's horrified that I might one day go for a walk in a forest and endanger my life.

[Rowangreen]

That's interesting. Funny about the MOL. I have trouble with recognising faces. I recently heard someone saying that faceblind people just saw faces as a blur. Sounds to me like people going round with censorship blurs over them! Which doesn't make any sense... I see faces fine, just I don't seem to file them correctly a lot of the time. So if I've only met someone once I might not recognise them, especially if it's a different location or something.

[isurus79]

Originally Posted by smweaver

My mother-in-law (God love her) is under the impression that I am, quite literally, blind to all colors. When I explained that I basically have problems with greens and browns, she looked at me sadly and asked, "So you can't see trees?" She's horrified that I might one day go for a walk in a forest and endanger my life.

[NeofinetiaCanada2014]

Beautiful colors; sepals chartreuse; petals pale pink,tipped chartreuse; white lip, base blushed light pink; hypochile white, lined lime green.


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[palm521]

you hit the jackpot whit this one.

please be very careful with this plant. and if possible clone it.!

Congrats!

[Kevinator]

Apparently a semi-alba version of this plant is extremely rare, but is a thing. I just saw a picture of this on the catalog of rogue orchids with identical flowers and was labeled as "semi-alba". You really should treasure that plant! It looks amazing!

[Tindomul]

Great colour combos!

[Leah]

This is quite an old post but I just stumbled upon it. I don't think I have ever considered Stanhopea a "pretty" flower, but this is beautiful! The colours compliment each other and it's just beautiful. 'sigh'

I have ordered my first couple of Stans. and one is a nigroviolacea. If only I have the same luck.

smweaver - if you read this, how is the plant going and have you cloned it???

[smweaver]

Hello, Leah, and thank you for your comments. The plant is doing very well, and it produced half a dozen new growths last summer. It did have a much better flowering in 2016, with eight blooms produced from four spikes over the course of a six week period. At first I was disappointed that all the spikes didn't produce blooms at once. But considering how very short the lifespan of the blooms is, I guess it was better to have lots of flowers produced over an extended time period.

In answer to your question regarding cloning, no I haven't gotten it mericloned. I'm a small-time hobbyist and I wouldn't have the first idea how to go about having the plant cloned.

Thank you again for your feedback.

Steve