My Dtps I-Hsin 'Black Jack' look-a-like NoID

[The Mutant]

Or, my evil Phal as it is also called (it's dark, and dark = evil).

This Phal is very hard to photograph since I can't take pics of it when it's too overcast outside, due to me having a lousy camera that needs lots of daylight. Also, the camera loves to enhance some colours and neglect others which is why photos of this Phal demand a lot of colour adjustments on the computer afterwards. I have tried to get the colours as close to the real ones as possible, but this is on my computer screen. What it might look on yours I have no idea.

As you can see, the two newest flowers, which both developed after the chid had been re-potted, have much more yellow on the lip. I don't think it has ever had as much yellow before not even on the newly opened flowers since I bought it. It seems it really wanted some fertilizer.

I'm also very glad that the spike has started growing again after the re-potting. This means I have even more flowers to look forward to. And, yes, it is one of my favourites.

So, by popular demand from one person, here it is!

[billc]

That is one nice looking flower!

Bill

[tucker85]

Beautiful! I love that color and the little bit of yellow is very nice. Don't blame your camera for problems with certain colors. Even with very expensive cameras and lenses it's often difficult to photograph some colors in nature.

[The Mutant]

Thanks for the nice comments.

It really is one of my absolute favs. It's such a contradicting Phal with leaves ranging between 20 - 28cm, a 50cm spike and 4,5 x 3,5cm flowers (approximately 7.9"-11" leaves, 19.7" spike, and 1.8" x 1.4" flowers). The plant in itself is actually the largest one I have... I also discovered what seems to be some growths on several of the nodes on the spike so it seems it might be planning to do some branching as well. How many flowers does it plan to get..?

[tuvoc]

Cool. I have one very similar that is in bloom.

Kim

[Eahonn]

I want one purple is my favorite color

[silken]

Very nice!

[Shirley]

Very pretty bloom and lovely intense colour. I thought you might like to see my Dtps. I-Hsin Black Jack 'Black Rose' which is now in spike. Its one of my favourites, blooming regularly this time of year and I love the colour pattern on the flowers.

[The Mutant]

Yours is very cute.
I think mine is pretending to be a Dtps. I-Hsin Black Jack 'Peter Lin' because that's the one it looks most similar to (as far as I can tell). It's to bad I'll never know what mine is being a NoID and all, but still I love it.

Beautiful phal.