Stanhopea tigrina vs Stanhopea nigroviolacea varieties or species:

[pmrorchideas]

I believe that fanciers of showier Stanhopea nigroviolacea should not label their plants as Stanhopea tigrina without the varietal name, nigroviolacea. There might be reasonable doubt among some about whether-or-not the variety nigroviolacea is a true separate species, and I'm not addressing that here. My complaint is that non-nigroviolacea plants are distributed as tigrina, and that the party looking for a true tigrina is hard-pressed now to find one. I've been looking for a true tigrina now for about 45 years (in the San Francisco-Berkeley area of California), and have not found a division, nor have I found a verifiable seedling for sale of the smaller-flowered, more reddish than purple striped-blotched-spotted type, yet.
I've seen plants that were not Stan. tigrina of any variety labeled Stan. tigrina (could have been Stan. maculosa, of which I have a couple, or one of the other plants with similar colors but different morphology from the Pacific Coast of Mexico), but not very close to tigrina. So...if you have a non-virus infected tigrina division or seedling available, and don't think that it is going to fund your retirement annuity, I could be interested.
Thanks,
Paul (pmrorchideas)

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I wanted to add to this thread that I am interested in Stanhopea orchids in general, and those of the Pacific side of Mexico in particular, for they have cultural requirements that are more similar to our regional conditions. I also have interest in other species of the genus, wherever they grow. I just had a tigrina bloom this morning, a plant that I'd picked up on a club "opportunity table," (means raffle) from a very old collector. It is of the darker color form, with 3 flowers on this first blooming of this division, and 140 mm broad, each flower. Hypochil and epichil both check out correctly for the species, vs form found on the Assidensis hybrid.