V. tricolor & Ascda. Princess Mikasa

[rastafouni]

Wua you're gonna have another great bloom on your tricolor ! Great !

I have checked on different documents that I have on Vanda tricolor and I think that, mainly due to the color and especially to the characteristic shape of the lip, there is a very good chance that this plant is a tricolor var. suavis.
Photos and descriptions in my possessions on various varieties such as (some not recognized as valid species by authorities like Kew Gardens) tricolor var planilabris, var purpurea, var tricolor or var major don't match in colors, patterns and shape of the lips with flowers of your plant but does with var suavis even if the shapes of the petals and sepals are a bit round and flat but I have seen that of some plants of tricolor var suavis.

[Roy]

Thanks Philippe, I agree with your research.
Try these on for size.
Again, supposed to be tricolor v. suavis or Suavis.



This one I believe to be tricolor v. planilabris.

[rastafouni]

Roy, I agree with you too. The second one is an another var. suavis and the color pattern of the last one matches with var planilabris.
You are lucky to have this planilabris, it is not seen so often to sell or at least with the proper identification...

[Roy]

Philippe, I bought the plant as V. bensonii. The 1st pic I posted was from the seller, flowers dead on arrival. It flowered for me the next year & here is the pic it was ID'd from. Would have liked bensonii but not dissapointed with another tricolor, at least a different one. Can't say that I've seen another one for sale anywhere here.

[rastafouni]

Roy, maybe in Indonesia you can find it sold as a var planilabris but I have never seen it to sell around here as well. In fact, I guess you have to be "lucky enough" to buy it sold under a wrong ID to get it...