Sophronitis brevipedunculata!!!

[Bud]

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]

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]

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]

IOSPE PHOTOS

A very good reference, should help in this ID.

Warren

[Chris147]

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]

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

[Chris147]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Chris147

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]

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.