Mormodes buccinator var. aureum

[Bruno De Toni]

I already posted this plant last year and I want to shear again its beauty. Even though the plant is not very strong, in this opportunity it gave me two spikes with golden yellow flowers with a very strong menthol fragance. Is one of my favorites.
Mormodes buccinator aureum on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Mormodes buccinator aureum on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

[isurus79]

Another great one! I wonder how the offspring of this plant would look if crossed with that red Mormodes with the hairy lip you recently posted?

[Gena]

Stunning, Bruno!!!! Simply stunning! Love everything in this plant, particularly combination of colours! It is so beautiful this green-golden palette …. Love it!
When mine will reach flowering size …..????

[Bruno De Toni]

Originally Posted by isurus79

Another great one! I wonder how the offspring of this plant would look if crossed with that red Mormodes with the hairy lip you recently posted?

Good question Steve, but as Jan said I have to cross my fingers and wait a female flower , I am sure that the result would be superb .

[Bruno De Toni]

Originally Posted by Gena

Stunning, Bruno!!!! Simply stunning! Love everything in this plant, particularly combination of colours! It is so beautiful this green-golden palette …. Love it!
When mine will reach flowering size …..????

Thanks a lot Gena, yes it is really beautiful, but I have another one which is darker, close to orange that one is much more spectacular (Is the one of my avatar). I almost lost it but now is fully recovered (still have a small bulb) and it is next to send out a spike, hopfully with a few buds. Let´s wait to see it again. By the way be patient .

[Gena]

Originally Posted by Bruno De Toni

but I have another one which is darker, close to orange that one is much more spectacular (Is the one of my avatar)

I never forget this one .... since I saw it here for the first time HOME
It is amazing! And such a lovely picture! To use rocks as background was brilliant!

[Gena]

Originally Posted by Jan Pahl

Gena, from the same page you posted, the red-yellow one here....

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do you know which species that Mormodes belongs to????...

EDIT. By the way, USINA (in spanish "ingenio","fábrica", "complejo industrial" or "factoría") is not a place in brazil, but the word for factory, specialy the big ones. ThemI don't have even a clue from which part of Brazil they came from... It looks like buccinator to me, but the colors aren't "right" I think.

Nix, Jan …. unfortunately. I saw couple of pictures posted at Mombu the Orquideas Forum Mormodes da usina - Mombu the Orquideas Forum but I could not identify it. I agree with you about buccinator – it just doesn’t feel right to me. And it’s a pity that there is no picture of the whole plant, than, at least, it could be possible to understand to which section this plant belongs.
About coloration – it is very peculiar indeed! It is not so seldom a contrasting coloration is presented in the genus but shown one is quite odd.

[Gena]

Originally Posted by Jan Pahl

I pronounce you my Mormodes teacher

Oh mine! What have I done now????
My first spontaneous thoughts were to write immediately “my name is Miguel. I am from Barcelona. I know nothing!”. (©Fawlty Towers).

Originally Posted by Jan Pahl

Section differentiation by vegetative behaviour... ummmm, ummmm, that's new to me.... : ^)
..... and I humbly ask....pleaseeeee can you explain me how todifferenciate Mormodes by this traits

Actually Jan, this new systematic was proposed by Dr. Gerardo A. Salazar Chávez at 15th WOC in Brazil in 1996. So, redefinition of the sections of Mormodes was proposed on the basis of leaf and inflorescence features, as follows (I quote):
”1) Section Mormodes (Eumormodes, including Klotzschia), characterized by the non-basal inflorescence produced from the mature pseudobulb: underside of leaves divided of epicuticular way mesophyll lacking idioblasts with spirally thickened walls;
2) Section Coryodes (including Coelodes), characterized by the basal inflorescence produced from the developing shoot underside of leaves covered by a dense of layer of epicuticular wax: mesophyll shows large idioblasts with spirally thickened walls.”

Originally Posted by Jan Pahl

By the way Gena, my e-mail is janpahl@gmail.com, and I also in a Spanish speaking forum

https://www.google.com/accounts/Serv...2F&cd=US&hl=es

with Bruno, Ramón, and other Catasetinae (and other orchids) lovers. If you like to post there, I can translate to you each post, and each reply

Thank you, Jan! I really appreciate that! I do not speak Spanish unfortunately .... ..... It is very generous of you, seriously! Thank you!!!

Originally Posted by Jan Pahl

I also recommend this forum,

https://www.google.com/accounts/Serv...D1&cd=US&hl=es

is in Portuguese, but is quite illustrative about Catasetums.

This link I can not open .... .... weird

[Bruno De Toni]

Actually Jan, this new systematic was proposed by Dr. Gerardo A. Salazar Chávez at 15th WOC in Brazil in 1996

As a matter of fact this guy is known as the GURU in mormodes. I have different mormodes plants and I can tell you that there are big differences in some of them just in the way of the ammount and arragement of the flowers on the spike, the flower display and fragance as well. All of them are known as buccinator but I am sure they cannot be. I guess that there is a lot to go through to this genera and is a pitty that only a few people did some work on this plants.

[kavanaru]

Originally Posted by jan reloaded

By the way Sensei... the link that don't work is this one

http://groups.google.com/group/catas...?lnk=srg&pli=1

Jan and Gena, the problem is that you have to be registered in this forum to be able to open and its content. You need to apply for membership, and the moderator decides whether you are should accepted or not. On my side, I can say that I have applied 3 times (several months apart) and have always being rejected.... so... I gave up...