My 2013 blooming Coelogynes

[Yéri]

Hello everyone!

I'm not sure whether I should post this in Member's Display or here, but as it's all Coelogynes I decided I'd go for this section of the forum.

Here are a couple of pictures of my Coelogynes that have bloomed this year!

Coelogyne lentiginosa


Coelogyne rumphii 'alba'


Coelogyne Memoria W. Micholitz


Coelogyne ochracea x lawrenceana (sorry about the pizza background...)


Coelogyne ovalis


Coelogyne viscosa


And showing promising buds, I can't wait for this one to open!
Coelogyne xyrekes


As for those that haven't bloomed yet: C. pulverula, C. tomentosa, C. asperata, C. fuliginosa, C. trinervis, C. fimbriata, C. speciosa, C. flexuosa, C. flaccida, C. stricta, C. lawrenceana, C. mooreana, C. huettneriana, C. fuscescens.

As you can see, I'm a die-hard Coelogyne fan! I hope to post at least as many pictures in 2014

[SilverShaded]

Some less usual ones there, very interesting to see!

[sbrofio]

They are all lovely!
and about pizza...

[orchidsarefun]

wow.......beautiful collection. The fragrance in your grow area must be special too.
Why don't you seed -propagate ? This genus is one of the least hybridised.....

[Yéri]

Originally Posted by orchidsarefun

wow.......beautiful collection. The fragrance in your grow area must be special too.
Why don't you seed -propagate ? This genus is one of the least hybridised.....

I'm afraid the fragrance wasn't that amazing. You could smell it if you stuck your nose in it, but it wasn't any stronger than that. Maybe you have any tips in order to enhance fragrance?

As for propagation, I am about to try my hands on propagation soon, but it was my intention indeed to at least propagate the less common Coelogynes out there (and other uncommon orchids).
I'm totally in love with the genus and I only see the same ones over and over, which is something I would love to change

Don't be fooled by my collection though, I bought a lot of those this year only. I'm not that experienced in the genus (or even in orchids in general), but I'm passionate and young enough to make plenty of mistakes and learn from them!

[orchidsarefun]

I was at a greenhouse and the scent in one of the growing rooms was amazing. I asked - and was told it was a C tomentosa - though the plant had no label and they spent about 10 minutes trying to find out what it was. I would have bought it if it wasn't in such poor condition, the 3 spikes had also almost finished blooming.

I have a c lactea ( maybe huetterana, will wait and see how many blooms it has ) which hopefully blooms early next year. Its a huge plant.

The hybrids definitely look better. GL !

[Yéri]

Oh yes C. tomentosa is said to be very fragrant, mine hasn't bloomed yet so we'll see

As for your C. lactea (syn to C. flaccida), one of the major differences with C. huettneriana is that the flower spikes appear at the bottom of the adult pseudobulb, whereas huettneriana has them coming out of the new shoots.
C. lactea also has a pendant inflorescence, huettneriana tends to have an erect flower spike. That should help you determining which one it is as soon as you see something popping out

Some other visible differences are the pseudobulbs: C. huettneriana has more ovoïd (round) pseudobulbs and they more cramped up together.

Hope this helped a bit!

[Paul]

Nicely done!

[WhiteRabbit]

Fabulous!

[NYCorchidman]

I like the ovalis the best, and the all green one is also cute.