Vanda tricolor, var suavis
I spent a good amount at a close-out sale, and got this one as a freebie. It was a keiki from a very large bushy plant, a couple of years from blooming size.
As most other tricolors in the US, it is variety suavis, which has a more distinctive appearance than the standard tricolor. It carries a light fragrance, and on this spike, there happens to be a 'siamese twin' flower.
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Kim (Fair Orchids)
Founder of SPCOP (Society to Prevention of Cruelty to Orchid People), with the goal of barring the taxonomists from tinkering with established genera!
I am neither a 'lumper' nor a 'splitter', but I refuse to re-write millions of labels.
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