Can anyone ID my vanda?

[Orchidreamer]

This is my NOID vanda. I know I can probably never know for sure, but any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

[MattWoelfsen]

That looks like my Vanda coerulea species plant. My plant has a blue tint that the camera is hard to capture.

[Joyorchid]

Originally Posted by MattWoelfsen

That looks like my Vanda coerulea species plant. My plant has a blue tint that the camera is hard to capture.

I agree with Matt. coerulea.

[Fairorchids]

It has coerulea in background, but it is not a pure species.

It has hints of brown in the lower sepals, so there is sanderiana in it too. Also, in pure coerulea, the petals usually twist, so you see the outside of petals when viewing flower from the from the front. That trait has been bred out in some of the modern line bred plants, but they are much darker blue.

I am guessing that this is an older Rothschildiana, or possibly Rothschildiana bred back to coerulea.

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Where did you buy this Vanda from?

Can you post a pic of the entire plant?

In the pic, can you also use a ruler to show measurements on the plant's leaves?

Provide the answers to the questions, and you will get an answer as to whether this is the species or a hybrid.

With V. coerulea hybrids, it's usually difficult to tell the species from the hybrid if you don't know what traits to look for.

We saw the flowers, now it's time to look at the leaves…

Remember, breeding other Vanda species with V. sanderiana usually makes the progeny bigger than the Vanda species that was crossed with V. sanderiana, (if this makes any sense at all).

If you guys have read some of my posts regarding Vandas, recall that I've mentioned one of the reasons why I choose to grow Vanda species over the hybrids…

That reason was that many Vanda species tend to be smaller than the hybrids are, and that usually the reason why the hybrids are so large is mostly because they've been bred with Vanda sanderiana at some point.

My largest species Vanda doesn't even match the sizes that the hybrids get to be.

Also look at the overall flower shape.

Hybrids containing V. sanderiana tend to have flowers that are more rounded in overall appearance. The petals and the sepals are also more rounded and larger because of the crossing with V. sanderiana.