Rth. Dal's Emperor 'Allan'

[SouthPark]

Rth. Dal's Emperor 'Allan' is a mini-catt with yellow flowers. The flowers of this cultivar has been seen on OrchidBoard before.

A bud started to open yesterday, and one flower is fully open this morning. This calls for some pics to upload!

In the warmer climates - the flower is mostly yellow. In cold climates, the low temperature will often allow the edge of the lip to have pinks and/or red colours around the lip perimeter.

The 'white specks' on the petals look like salt specks in the photos - so not very outstanding as seen in the photos. The camera just so-happened to not capture the sparkly diamond glittery feature of the flower in the sunlight (seen in lots of orchid flowers - but can't always be picked up by the camera).

Here are some nice pics below:

Google drive links (crisper pics):
buds
flower pic 1
flower pic 2
flower pic 3
flower pic 4
flower pic 5













Update 1: both flowers opened now!




Update 2: Another flower from a different division (from originally the same plant) opened - and nice to include one more photo, with the flower having developed some pink/violet around the lip perimeter.

[DeaC]

Lovely plant and bloom...but where's ginger? I'm a fan,ya know.

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by DeaC

Lovely plant and bloom...but where's ginger? I'm a fan,ya know.

hahaha! Thanks DeaC for asking about gingercat and liking gingercat!

This is a recent pic - not taken on the same day ----- just a few days before the flowering. It's gingercat sleeping on her shift (again hahaha).

Google drive link:
gingercat

[DirtyCoconuts]

Well done!!

[Leafmite]

I like the shape of this one. Really nice!

[SouthPark]

This time, a flower managed to develop some colour around the lip perimeter - most likely due to the low temperature we had recently - maybe!

This flower here is really from the same plant as the other flowers ----- just divided into divisions.

The original plant had quite a lot of bulbs - which I divided into four lots, and kept growing - totally unphased - and all produced buds and/or flowers very quickly after dividing.

A dendrobium beetle did destroy a bud on one of the divisions. But that's ok! Another division currently has 2 buds and maybe will open in another week or two!

Google drive links (higher res pics):
Rth. Dal's Emperor 'Allan' 1
Rth. Dal's Emperor 'Allan' 2

[SouthPark]

I forgot to mention that the white column will eventually change to violet as the flower ages a bit, and the petals will become a darker yellow. They're originally quite light canary yellow when very new.

[Diane56Victor]

Beautiful, love that tinged pink frill on the lip.
Ive found most of the plants with Dal in the name are good lookers.

Just had a Rlc. Dal's Horizen x Rlc. Burdekin Delight and a couple of other Rlc plants delivered today from Qld.

[WaterWitchin]

Let's have a "later" picture as it ages. I'd like to see the color change.

[JScott]

Originally Posted by WaterWitchin

Let's have a "later" picture as it ages. I'd like to see the color change.

Yes, lets! It's super adorable. I love it. It's so cute!