Most expensive orchid?
 

It looks very normal to me. What do you guys think? :hmm

caroline

http://www.newsgd.com/pictures/scenery/200501270034.htm

Looks like an average Cymbidium to me.

It has unusual markings on the sepals and petals, but other than that it doesn't appear special. There's obviously some reason that they value it so highly. Perhaps it has variegated foliage or it's a unique variant.

You could buy a greenhouse and lots of nice plants for $202,000.

You could buy my greenhouse and all the plants in it for half that... Come on, make an offer before winter!

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Am I missing something? There is no picture on the linked page!?

We should make it a prize for the next contest :) Any sponsors ? Don't PM me all at once, I only have a 350msg limit.

Count me out! I'm retired :biggrin:

for 202,000...id rather put a nice down payment on a house on a nice lot with a tiny green house

You must have that backwards Marco :evil: , tiny green house, come on think big...tiny house, less mess to clean and big green house, did I say big...huge is what I meant...and full of :dance: chids, :dance: chids, :dance: chids..

yeah Cheryl tiny greenhouse to house phals paphs and neos :) I would dread the chore of watering and repotting when spring comes... I'm lazy :biggrin: and im super anal it takes me an hour or so just water my plants now making sure not to water in the crown and making sure the base of the plant is dry before the it goes back on the grow table :blushing:

Gotcha...takes me a good 2 hours to water mine in the kitchen sink now that I have it down to a science, baking dish never looked so good. Greenhouse would house a great sprinkler system with plenty of fans to dry before crown rot...oh my gosh, can't believe I am saying this...would worry no matter how big or small the greenhouse. Just got a bug lately, visiting working greenhouses and makes me want more meaning bigger area. But it's hard to get away from the condo lifestyle. Hummmmm, bigger condo, great down payment...

It might be time to move out of the condo soon Cheryl :biggrin: Or you can get that bigger condo and have nice room set aside a hobby room if you will :)

I could put a healthy down payment on my house down here in Central Florida for that price. Geez....hard to believe that a plant could be worth that much. I balked when I paid over $80.00 for a paph from Krull-Smith for a very nice lowii.

Yeah... Few yearly payments (I mean yearly--with no deductions!) just for an orchid... Cool!!

OK. way too steep for my taste.. I haven't spent more than $45 on an orchid yet and I thought that was high. I'd be scared to death I would kill it...

Anybody find out anything else about that orchid that made it so special???

By the way, did anybody else see the Midsome Murder episode on orchids? on A&E? The orchid in question was so special people many people were killed for it.. and it was going for much more than the 202K..

Oh my.... Such is the power of these beauties..

The most expensive - legit - orchid I've ever seen was back in the later '70's or early '80's, and it was a wild-collected blue Phalaenopsis violacea for $30,000 offered by Simanis Orchids in Indonesia.

Considering that it was one-of-a-kind, with the entire population being that single plant, and that every blue violacea since originated there, it was a good investment for someone. (Although I doubt they paid the full amount.)

I think it’s the genetically engineered orchid that glows in the dark. It has the same gene inserted that makes the tobacco plant glow.

If I had 200 k I would go pro with orchids!

The most I have spent is $100 on a black ruby phalaenopsis. I almost killed it but now its back to a size of a seedling

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Maybe its a specimin plant. May be extremely huge and offering fabulous propagation as well as being a fabulous flower. I have seen specimin plants here sell for over $1000.

Check out the last item in the Paph. listing just at start of Phrags.
Paph. Sanderianum 'Rapunzel' AM/AOS SALE! $19,999
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Yes, but you have to remember those are Canadian dollars, not US dollars, so when you do the conversion, it actually only costs $50. so it's a value. :evil:

This is a contest, right?
202,000
Korean Won equivalent to $215.31 USD
Indonesian Rupiah - $22.24 USD
Vietnam Dong - $12.58

Oh, such barbs Scott! :poke: Give us another couple of years and our dollar will be worth more than yours! It certainly was in the 60's!

Meanwhile, I look at the flower on that Cymbidium and think...does this have a virus or something? Those irregular white markings look almost virus-like to my mind.

I've read of Hepaticas in Japan selling for $20,000 US (that must be close to a million Canadian according to Scott's math :evil: )...they must have money to burn!