V. "Fries with Ketchup and Mustard"
 

This is a NoID…

i see fries with ketchup and mustard, how bout you?
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...ba720ce_4k.jpgFrogs by J Solo, on Flickr



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and a few days older....

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...b9f363d_4k.jpgMacodes by J Solo, on Flickr

You not getting enough to eat, DC?


Great colors, though. I love orange!

Now you're making me hungry.

I do admit, i am eating so much more fresh fruit and veggies and i have not had fries in a long time!!!

lol.

these semi terete vandas are so happy in this climate that they really do bloom almost all year...not continuously, but at any point they could spike

Beauty!

That is stunning. I want that lol. Unfortunately, I can't grow Vandas. Or at least I don't think I can. I've never tried. They would do okay outside in the summer with the high humidity and their roots all exposed to the air, but then I would have to bring them in the house in the winter, and the humidity is low, and I don't think I get enough sun in the winter to keep them happy, and putting them under my light setup would be probrlematic, with them being so tall, and the roots hanging down so far, I just don't think it would work. So I will just look at yours, and enjoy it from afar. That really is a spectacular plant. Good job.

Fantastic DC!!!!!! I can see hot dog mustard with ketchup. I can even smell it from here!!!!!

An absolute stunner! Reminds me more of a smoothie though... :)

do you have a shower that does not get a lot use?

i know a few folks who grow these guys and then relocate them to sort of hibernate for the winter...they don't thrive indoors but they seem to bounce back and enjoy the summers

In fact do have a shower that does not get a lot of use. Your idea intrigues me... I guess off I go to shop for Vandas :rofl::rofl::rofl:

so this was a treat...last week the last of the three flowers on this gal faded and fell and then yesterday i was just cruising through the vanda section and i noticed this, a whole ne spike with more buds!!!! score

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...b21e464_4k.jpgTitle II by J Solo, on Flickr

DC ------ I just have to ask you ---- do you want MORE FRIES with that? !!!!

Hahahahaha

i LIKE this plant a lot...this is now the THIRD spike since i made this thread and that suggests, maybe, it will be a 6 month bloomer!!! that would be great


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...bdb5d714_c.jpgVanda by J Solo, on Flickr

so the almost impossible happened to me this weekend.

I went to a paid garden called Flamingo Gardens which is have been to many many years ago and forgotten all about.

it is an amazing sprawling landscape of rain forest and bizarre plants bc the original owners, the Wrays got plant samples from all sorts of vendors and tried to see what would grow.

this was in 1933.

this place used to sell some of the cuttings and prunings and this included the 1000+ orchids. this was back in the 70s and 80s

fast forward and i get a LONG piece of ratty vanda from a friend that she said her grandmother put in the tree and it has been cut and shared 100 times.

well my friend and her grandmother live about 4 miles from this garden and i saw a few plants that looked a lot like my vanda...all the same name and slight variations from the one above to pinker....i snapped a few pics and sent them to my friend and her abuela facetimed me immediately!!!

i had to spend literally 25 minutes on the phone with her finding the 13 or so remaining orchids she had purchased there close to 50 years ago and we were able to ID like 10


it was hilarious, she was SO excited and would just yell in spanish about the saints and it was really fun.


so this is NOT ketchup and mustard.


it is V. josephine van brero

here is one of the many samples i saw there

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and some other cool stuff

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5b00a150_c.jpgUntitled by J Solo, on Flickr




https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...24f15af7_c.jpgUntitled by J Solo, on Flickr




https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...a4c5cdf9_c.jpgUntitled by J Solo, on Flickr



https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d1af2d22_c.jpgUntitled by J Solo, on Flickr


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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e1532a5a_c.jpgUntitled by J Solo, on Flickr

:verycool:Now that's a place I'd definitely return to. TY.

I love everything about that post! Thanks!!

That is a really beautiful orchid and the gardens look like a great place to visit. So glad you could ID your orchid. :)

Beautiful plant, and thanks for the laugh. I can see why you would call it that.

It could not be a Vanda JVB since those have petals that fold back more. What you have is a Vanda JVB crossed with something. That is why yours has that nice shape. Look up Vanda TMA or Vanda Tan Chay Yan for something that looks similar. All the Vanda JVB (Josephine Van Brero) crosses I've seen have that reddish lip shaped just like yours. Colors vary depending on what the JVB is crossed with, but the overall shape is pretty much like what you have there. Chances of finding the actual name are pretty slim since there are many JVB crosses and many look quite similar. I have too slightly different ones that look like yours, but I also have a bright yellow, orange yellow, and orange that are all shaped like yours (all JVB crosses), but have no names, and virtually no way to find out. They are nice, but all still NoID's.

Yug. You are probably right. But since the lineage of the plants I have is me to my friend (F) and she got them directly from abuela (A) I had direct access to the source of my cutting.

If abuela says it was this from this garden, “shrug” who am I to argue with Abuela???

Wise choice. Never argue with an abuela. About a year late to the start of this party, but definitely peaches and cream.

I've argued with 'highly-informed' orchid folk before - only from a very informed position, though - and have been proven to be correct on almost all occasions. I just use lots of tact, and it helps if you can use some of their own past writings / sayings to show that they may already support your position. The most recent was a former orchid club president - very knowlegable & generous - in his late 80's. This gentleman had been an AG science instructor in earlier years, and was very well informed on ag topics. He was telling me I didn't know what I was talking about when we were discussing types of papayas. I told him I had seen a few male ones, but they were rather rare, and that a few blocks from where I (and he) lived I had seen another one recently. He told me I didn't know what I was talking about, and he doubted I even knew what one looked like. He said it was probably something else that I had mistaken for a papaya. I told him where to look. About a week later he called me and said I was right; it was a male. If I wasn't sure, I'd not have said so. Just like with this vanda.

So, regarding the JVB issue, try to find any photo of a straight JVB that is not like what I described - lateral petals twisted back almost like a V. tricolor, and leaves spaced pretty far apart where they join the main stem. I'd love to see one that does not look like that, but it really isn't all that important since it couldn't be proven without a genetic test anyway, and most folks would think that is too much bother.

Hey DC, I think both names are fitting but it is always great when after wondering and wondering we finally think we found the right name.
I say think as it sounds like this one started to breed in the wild up to a radius of 4 miles and then a cutting was taken off one of the wild growing ones?
I was thinking the leaves are not 100% vanda but I just checked and the JVB was made using a Papilionanthe teres which would explain that lol

looks like a vanda JVB hybrid (Josephine von Brero) and is likely a quarter terete plant, I used to grow a few of those when in South Fla and they have great sunset tones color, can take full sun and heavy feeding, love the rainy days and bloom almost constantly. In a large clay pot with large chunks of either coal, tree fern, lava rock.
A great plant, thanks for posting.
BTW, these type of vandas can be seen in oriental tropical gardens in a group setting with many always in bloom.