rossioglossum williansianum var flavidum? (recently found in the wild)

[palm521]

I was able to put my hands on this wild Rare plant from the Area of Chiapas mexico. plant arrived this Friday to me.

there seems to be a disagreement regarding the true identity of this plant.

some people say it is a williansianum others say it might be the rossioglossum schlieperianum var flavidum (alba).
if it is the later, then this plant found its way to mexico jungle by natural means. (unlikely)

your thoughts ?

cheers

PS, added some information.

Antonio.

[Carpe Diem]

Collected in the wild?

[lotis146]

Yes, can you clarify collected in the wild?? Are you saying someone went and took this out of the jungle for you?

[palm521]

yes, someone collected it in the wild, i was told about it AFTER it was collected. so i decided to bring it home.

when rare plants or rare color forms of species are found, i do get the news (alongside other people).

i do plan to seed propagate them, (AS WITH many other rare species or rare color form, that came from the wild).

sadly , wild collected plants, are NORMAL within latin america countries, Mexico is not the exception.

first thing i do is to divide , and provide plants to other professional enthusiast, so it is unlikely the plant clone will die and can be used to propagate.

antonio.

Edit : the pictures both came from the folks who collected, reason of the poor quality, flowers on the albun plant were just too damage for the purpose of this post. (which is the identification)

[Carpe Diem]

I am glad you're handling this in the proper way, i.e. sharing and seed propagation. Sadly, some of the wild plants get collected right out of existence.

[lotis146]

Wow, that sounds like a big responsibility!

Best wishes to you and your plants!

I just saw a hybrid of this plant at Hausermann's. It was a huge beautiful flower. I can only imagine seeing that thing in the wild, even seeing a wild plant. Hopefully it doesn't get "collected out of existence."