Mtssa. Shelob-ISH - Orchid Board

gravotrope · #1 11-10-2013, 01:44 PM

Not sure what this is, but it's pretty. Any ideas?

Laserbeak · #2 11-10-2013, 02:06 PM

I don't know but it's gorgeous, and we have almost the same kitchen!

bellini girl · #3 11-10-2013, 02:38 PM

Probably some kind of Miltassia hybrid. Very pretty

gravotrope · #4 11-10-2013, 04:50 PM

It should have 2 leads by spring...for some reason the pseudo-bulb that bloomed last winter didn't send off a new lead, but the one before it did, so after it finishes its blooms I'm going to give it a brief rest and then some superthrive. It looks a lot like the shelob but the spots on the labellum are just different and so is the color, seems like more of the classic miltonia coming through. possibly a shelob that selfed??

MrsSky · #5 11-10-2013, 07:03 PM

Thats very pretty! It looks like Miltassia C. M. Fitch ‘Dark Monarch’ or maybe Shelob webmaster. I'm very fond of my Shelob Tolkiens. They bloom regularly and grow like a weed.

Optimist · #6 11-10-2013, 09:08 PM

Look up Mtssa. C. M. Fitch 'Izumi' . It looks a lot like that. Like an all rasberry shelob. I found this at Larrys Orchids in the Miltonia Alliance section. Their photo was taken with some more light.

gravotrope · #7 11-13-2013, 05:41 PM

I found it. Looks exactly like Degarmoara memoria Jay Yamada 'kauai'. It seems to also be placed under the nothogenus Aliceara in some places.

Not all no-I.D.'s are this lucky or identifiable. But when you pick something up at an orchid show, there's most likely going to be a name for it somewhere. I should have gotten it back then and written it down!