Vanda coerulea 'alba'

[mollycart1]

Gotcha!

I think I successfully pollinated the flower. The flower itself completely turned to WHITE when I checked the plant this evening.

The pollen was from one of the hybrids - V. bensonii x V. pumila.

[Bud]

WOW! that is amazing...I have the alba strain too but its still 2 yrs from flowering...your flower looks like an albino with short lip...but the form is definitely there

[mollycart1]

Oh, no. It is not the alba form. Upon the pollination, it turned completely 'white'. The lip was broken off as I was trying to insert the pollen.

This is the original plant and the flower.
Vanda coerulea on a stick

[Bud]

Oh, okies...I got confused there...thats still amazing: it turned white when pollinated! Your plant is pregnant LOLZ

[rastafouni]

Hi Naoki and Bud,

On the alba form the entire flower is white and on Naoki's flower, the base of the lip still has a blue spot. Then with the alba form, it is the whole spike who produces white flowers, not a single alba flower among other blue ones.
Some photos of the alba form ( who was in fact registred as Vanda coerulea luwangalba in 2008) that I took during a show in Bangkok :

Vanda coerulea alba | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

But I used to have the same experience than Naoki next to pollination of V. coerulea with a flower who became white.


All my best !

[WhiteRabbit]

Wow - that's really cool! Keep us updated please!

[FairyInTheFlowers]

Hahaha!!! I was thinking of how ironic that a species whose name means 'blue' has a white variety!

[mollycart1]

A pod is developing. Now what is next???