Cyrtocidium Gower Ramsey

[PaphMadMan]

Originally Posted by got ants

I posted that Rosie because if you put the two together, I personally couldn't tell the difference. The only thing I might say is the Sweet Sugar MIGHT be bigger. MIGHT because it could be just a matter of a particular growers conditions.

Sometimes I understand name changes like Encyclia cochleata becoming Prosthechea cochleata, as it has a more elongated psuedobulb, and the flower is definitely not an oncidium type. But why change names on two plants that are almost identical to two different lead names?

Gower Ramsey has just 3 species in its ancestry. The same 3 species in different proportions make up 93% of the ancestry of Sweet Sugar, so it is no surprise they may look almost identical.

Your confusion on the hybrid genus name is understandable because RHS is inconsistent. Oncidium varicosum is one of the 3 ancestors listed for Gower Ramsey, but the same species is listed as Gomesa varicosa in the ancestry of Sweet Sugar, resulting in different names applied to the hybrids. Perhaps they are working on updating records and haven't gotten to all of them, or perhaps they are just plain incompetent.