Some New Year's bloomers

[Roberta]

You need all the sunshine you can get! Beautiful!

[No-Pro-mwa]

Oh, I just love the peacock.

[Dollythehun]

It's an easy bloomer.

[estación seca]

I looked it up to learn what the abbreviation means. It's supposed to be Bpl. and it is Brassoepilaelia.

Bpl. Golden Peacock 'Orange Beauty' AM/OSROC (Bl. Richard Mueller x Epi. vitellinum) / Orchids.com

[Dollythehun]

Yes, but I copied the tag exactly, because I knew you and Ray would be watching.😀😁😉

[estación seca]

At the cactus society I see people who have carefully copied typos from tag to tag. When I try to correct them they fly into a frenzy. I guess a tag is a sacred infallible relic?

[Roberta]

I get tags with typos and butchered names even from local commercial growers who know better... I figure it's a learning experience when I look up a plant, can't match what the tag says with the reference (because it's wrong), work on another part of the name, and come up with what it should be. I feel like Sherlock Holmes. (Hint: I love the ability of looking up names based on a small part, that Orchidwiz provides. I have deciphered damaged and faded tags that way too)

[Dollythehun]

I fixed it. I printed it exactly so I wouldn't get called out. 😉

[estación seca]

What's really funny is when the tag from a completely different plant is in the pot, and the owner refuses to believe it, because that's what the tag says.

[Roberta]

A "sanity check" is always appropriate... that's part of the learning process, too - it feels good when one is able to catch an error and correct it.