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Bud 01-01-2012 12:11 AM

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Nice cutie pie of a plant you have there. If you google the name:
" Sophronitis brevipedunculata "
there are many flowers that crop up (75 or more)and the one that caught my eye is this picture photographed by Ardisia from Spain in the orchid board named "infojardin"

Chris147 01-01-2012 12:18 AM

I have seen this picture as well, but I am not 100% sold that this is a brevipedunculata. If you look at the bulbs on the plant, they are more elongated that a brevipedunculata. Brevipedunculata have small, round pseudobulbs leading me to believe that that plant might be a coccina.

Bud 01-01-2012 12:57 AM

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these are photos from IOSPE and Orchids Wiki = elongated and almost flat bulb... yours is a golfball round bulb...
two strikes against your rounded bulb=
so should you question your plant instead?
*three strikes= the Spanish picture is also ovoid shape

buckie 01-01-2012 01:08 AM

IOSPE PHOTOS

A very good reference, should help in this ID.

Warren

Chris147 01-01-2012 01:11 AM

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Actually if you look Very closely on the picture that you posted you can see that the bulbs are small and round just like the plant that I have. There may be a slight difference between the two plants because mine is var. Binot. Here is a true brevipedunculata picture

FairyInTheFlowers 01-01-2012 11:24 AM

WOW!!!! Those pictures are AMAZING!!!

Chris147 01-01-2012 11:50 AM

I agree. Now I just need to give it a ton of light so that it turns purple. I don't know what it is with me and having my plants purple, but it's so fascinating. I have a laelia liliputana that is all purple with a little green. Te seller grew it outside al the time. Sadly I cannot do that due to the cold weather. The plant will be purple though. That's my mission.

Bud 01-01-2012 03:22 PM

Well... there are several forms of your plant and variations...and If your tag says Sophronitis brevipedunculata; I beleive you. No need to make it purple: just follow the culture of your plant and post blooms of it in the future and give joy to the others...before I joined OB I used to throw away tags because they were unsigtly sticking out of the pot...that says how little I beleived in names, tags , species...all I ever beleive in is the beauty of the flower that the plant provides...the rest is just politics

isurus79 01-01-2012 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris147 (Post 460602)
I agree. Now I just need to give it a ton of light so that it turns purple. I don't know what it is with me and having my plants purple, but it's so fascinating. I have a laelia liliputana that is all purple with a little green. Te seller grew it outside al the time. Sadly I cannot do that due to the cold weather. The plant will be purple though. That's my mission.

Me too! I love it when my plants turn purple and they always reward me with great flowers!

Chris147 01-01-2012 08:31 PM

I just love when plants that are supposed to be green turn purple. It's so odd and exotic. I have a couple of other plants that also have the ability to take full sun allowing the plants to turn purple. They are rhyncholaelia digbyana (I have 4 plants) and a Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis. The bulb. phalaenopsis is mainly green, but there is a noticable purplish tinge. One of my digbyana is the same way. The other three have not had the chance to get that much sun because I bought them later in the year, and the sun is not always out. Next year, I would love to give them as much sun as they can take. Who knows they may even bloom better.


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