oncidium praetextum

[u bada]

This is a brazillian oncidium related to oncidium crispum, and basically there's a bunch of them that look similar but are given different names.

Anyway, picked up at a show the other month in spike so can't give credit to flowering it but i suppose i actually liked it more because of the growth habit (not pictured, should have before i started writing this), which are cute round pbs and leaves creeping up the mount. Also it supposedly can handle the variable temperatures and humidity here in LA outside.

So it opened and well it's really brown. While I appreciate white flowers and green flowers very much, the question of such brown flowers now when confronted with them in person is a bit perplexing...

so what are your thoughts? keeper? or trade off? I've asked around already for thoughts and people are giving me mixed comments...

I will say this, in person it has this delicate yet structured texture to it that is both glossy and papery and intriguing...

oncidium praetextum by u u, on Flickr

I attached other images of flower in natural sunlight with different backgrounds to give you other perspectives of flower...