New Blooms

[cowboy51278]

Been a lot of spikes and buds floating around but not a ton of new blooms for the last few weeks. These three took pitty on me and opened up over the last week.

Cymbidium Aloifolium
Octomeria gracilis
Ornithochilis fuscus

Thanks for checking them out

[Chubidubi]

Beautiful plants and nice place you have there.

[cb977]

Paul, those are great!
I loved the Cym and then the last photo just knocked my socks off!

[gixrj18]

Love the last one, please let me know if you end up with any seeds from this one....that you want to get rid of!

[tuvoc]

Great bunch again, Paul. The cym is a knockout, and the other two are pretty fine too.

Kim

[smweaver]

Beautiful cymbidium, Paul. Are the flowers fragrant? Also (and this question is for anyone who might care to give an opinion), do you know if Cymbidium aloifolium and Cym. bicolor are synonyms for the same species? I have one of each, but to me they look suspiciously alike. The only difference is that the one labeled aloifolium is about twice the size of the one that's labeled bicolor. Just curious about the two (or, perhaps, one) species. Again, very nice cymbidium you have; both plant and flowers look fantastic.

Steve

[cowboy51278]

Originally Posted by smweaver

do you know if Cymbidium aloifolium and Cym. bicolor are synonyms for the same species? Steve

as far as I know cym bicolor and cym aloifolium are two different species.

aloifolium has striations across the lip with yellow under tones. while bicolor has a solid burgandy lip with yellow spotting. the petals and sepals also seem to have more of the burgandy color. i have seen aloifolium that has almost no burgandy on the petals or sepals and bicolor with almost solid burgandy petals and sepals but in the end its always the lip that defines them. next time they bloom look to see if the lips are spoted or striated.

here is a pic of my aloifolium next to a bicolor

can anyone else chime in???

[charmbutterfly]

They are wonderful!! I love the cym!