Calanthe rosea
I have been looking for Calanthes for a while, but they are hard to find. Then, a couple of months ago Fishing Creek Orchids came to Deep Cut OS to speak, and Stephen Male brought a variety of plants for sale, including 3 different deciduous Calanthes. The first one to bloom is Calanthe rosea, which is easy to identify on the combination of flower color, and the pinched waist on the bulb.
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Kim (Fair Orchids)
Founder of SPCOP (Society to Prevention of Cruelty to Orchid People), with the goal of barring the taxonomists from tinkering with established genera!
I am neither a 'lumper' nor a 'splitter', but I refuse to re-write millions of labels.
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