Vanda coerulea

[mollycart1]

I attended the OS annual summer picnic at one of the members house. As I walked in to one of her greenhouse, I spotted several blooming Vandas. She happened to have 3 coeruleas and she offered me to take one of them saying that I have given her some orchids all the time. ( Yes, I do. when I find plants I do not care, they go to her. )

Although I have one "wild" form, I have been looking for one like this for a long time.

[WhiteRabbit]

Beautiful!

[dounoharm]

what a deal! great flowers!

[Bud]

Beautiful coerulea....this is the first coerulea I ever posted and I was given grief by three people saying it wasnt one but a hybrid...so when my wild coerulea bloomed and I posted it....another member said it was something else....so I am awaiting for my two kinds of coerulea to bloom again and see if it will change color and form....but I still have my coerulea pictures in my album

[Leafmite]

I would like to get one of these someday. They are beautiful.

[rastafouni]

In my eyes a very attractive V. coerulea due to its general form and its nearly semi-alba color !!!!!!!

Wonderful, I love it.

[smweaver]

I too think this is a wonderful form, Naoki. Are the two "horns" on the lip rather sharply (instead of bluntly) pointed? They look to be from this angle, although it's a little hard to tell. The lip also looks rather narrow, instead of the broad lips of the V. coerulea hybrids. It's a great-looking bloom, in my opinion, and as Philippe pointed out, it's nearly a semi-alba, which is also distinctive. Now please start go back and tell your friend how desperately I want one of her plants--and no, I do not consider pathetically groveling to be beneath me either :-).

Steve

[tucker85]

Very nice!

[Tindomul]

Love blue orchids!

[mollycart1]

Originally Posted by smweaver

I too think this is a wonderful form, Naoki. Are the two "horns" on the lip rather sharply (instead of bluntly) pointed? They look to be from this angle, although it's a little hard to tell. The lip also looks rather narrow, instead of the broad lips of the V. coerulea hybrids. It's a great-looking bloom, in my opinion, and as Philippe pointed out, it's nearly a semi-alba, which is also distinctive. Now please start go back and tell your friend how desperately I want one of her plants--and no, I do not consider pathetically groveling to be beneath me either :-).

Steve

Steve,
Since she tends to underwater all of her Vandas, this one has a few underdeveloped leaves.

What I did not say was each plant had at least one or two matured keikis. In addition, one of them had some purplish color at the end of both sepals and pedals. She offered me to take that one, but it was too pretty to accept it "free". I, however, put a tag with my name on its keiki.