Phal hybrid in bloom since......December 2008! - Orchid Board

camille1585 · #1 01-23-2011, 01:48 PM

No, 2008 is not a typo! Phal Pink Panther ( a trade name) is a plant that I rescued in June 2008 from a garden center where I worked. It re-spiked that summer, and started blooming in early december 2008.

Since then it has been nearly constantly in bloom. Every year it spends 2 months or so bloomless, but that's only because the spikes were busy working on new buds. Then the blooms last 6-8 months. And the best thing is that it continues to throw up spikes. Right now it has 6 spikes, but it's not all that spectacular since each only has 3-4 blooms open at a time and the spikes are sticking out in various directions. Then the 2 older spikes have decided that extending the tip isn't enough, they're also growing side spikes.

I've given up long ago on cutting down spikes for it to conserve energy, that only encourages it to put out 1-2 new spikes. I'll let it be since the plant doesn't seem too much affected. It grows large healthy leaves and roots, and the blooms aren't getting any smaller. It will have to stop blooming at one point, it's going to run out of leaf axils from which to grow spikes!

This is an older pic, since the plant is unmovable it stayed in France and the pic my sister sent today is too fuzzy to post. Pink Panther is a trade name, I've tried to hunt down the RHS registered name of the cross several times but with no luck.

Daethen · #2 01-23-2011, 01:58 PM

Very pretty. I wish you could figure out what it is as I would love to have one. Looks like it has hyrogliphica in it.

RosieC · #3 01-23-2011, 02:26 PM

Really nice. I had a similar colour one which is one of the few that died, but it never had such nice pattening in the spots, or as nice a shape to petals/sepals and lip.

Hmm, wonder if the Pink Panther trade name is still arround in Europe I'll have to keep an eye out, because I just love that.

RosieC · #4 01-23-2011, 02:28 PM

Hmm, Easy Orchids in the UK have one with the same name, but the petals/sepals are rounder looking than yours (and it's out of stock anyway). Ramon also has a Pink Panter in his gallery on OB.

camille1585 · #5 01-23-2011, 02:31 PM

I see it once in a while at the garden center, but it's usually in the spring around easter time. Cameleon orchids is the main commercial grower that carries it. But you might have an easier way to get it, I know that a UK grower has it (found it when searching for the real name of it)
Phalaenopsis 'Pink Panther' They're out of stock for now though.

camille1585 · #6 01-23-2011, 02:32 PM

LOL, you posted while I was typing a reply!

PitcherASAMD · #7 01-23-2011, 02:56 PM

Anyone know where I can get one of these in the US? I'm smitten and in love

Beautiful Camille!

tucker85 · #8 01-23-2011, 02:58 PM

That's a beautiful phal.. Sometimes an individual plant will actually be more vigorous and bloom more than others just like it. Commercial growers are always looking for individual plants with those traits to use in propagating. You have a really nice one there. Congratulations.

RosieC · #9 01-23-2011, 03:00 PM

I think Easy Orchids stock a lot of ones which originate at Camelian Orchids. I'm not sure if Easy Orchids is a grower or just a seller. However it seems most phals in the UK are bought in from Europe even when you get them from a nursary that is growing their own of other genuses.

Anyway, gorgeous one and I'm going to try and get something similar later in the year

Tindomul · #10 01-24-2011, 01:39 AM

Thats gorgeous!!!