Phalaenopsis mannii and mannii
 

Here's a mannii
http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/or...1397437456.jpg
And another one (a lot of diversity in the flowers, but only managed to capture 2 very similar)
http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/or...1397437139.jpg
http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/or...1397437384.jpg
http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/or...1397437411.jpg

This one has a bacon scent…

Very cool!

Wow, they are stunning, and so are the pics!

I'm trying at the camera for more than a month, these curved/shiny leaves are hell! ^^

The normal mannii wasn't cooperative, flowers in every directions etc. A lot were much more yellow than the 2 or 3 pictured here. And the mannii "black" is a new flower, even better than those before so I'm pleased it went great capturing this one. :) So thanks a lot :)

One of my favorite species! Nice pics.

As I commented on another forum, I love this one. Interesting your comment about the fragrance being bacon... not sure if I would like that in a flower.

Can you clarify with is the 'black'. As I said on the other forum my 'black' looks more like your lower flowers, but quite dark. Not like the first one.

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This link shows mine. I start to wonder if mine is miss-labled.

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...wer-again.html

Both are mannii, the "black" is just a surname I gave and anyway it's not recognized botanically. It's supposedly a standard mannii, now there's doubts in the phal taxonomy world that the black, mahogany, chocolate… are pure mannii.

The other one is just a standard mannii too. Flowers go from mainly yellow with little reddish to brownish spots to near "black" quality. A total mess :banana:

I keep in a corner of my mind there may have been genetic pollution(s) higher in the genealogy, especially in the asian nurseries that are not minded by adding a little bit of this or that to enhance botanic phals. :evil::badh:

This said, mannii is very variable… :whew

About bacon, well, it's moderate to strong, but not the worst. It's just surprising such flowers have a smokey pig scent… :rofl:

I have a friend who would love bacon smelling flowers. Really cool!

Thanks. Mine was tagged as mannii 'Black' which I took to be a cultivar name. It looks most like your last picture.

I interesting about the asian nurseries. Not good for those of us who like to know parentage of what we have. Oh well :dunno:

Awesome. Love the first one.

Kim

Bacon scent, how interesting!!! :)

The flowers remind me of some kind of wasps somehow.

Mine is a smaller plant than many of my phals, but not a mini. It has a LOT of leaves, more than most of my phals, but they lay very close to each other. The leaves are a reasonable size, but not as big as some phals and not as small as some either... so probably about mid size for a phal.

How come I can't see the pictures?

No-Pro-mwa, they are displaying so there's something wrong on your side.

On the size:
- the "black" is a small-medium phal.
- the "normal" a bit Zartbitter is larger, with elongated leaves. I'll try to take a pic.

Well either someone fixed it or my end fixed it self. I can see them now. They are both different than mine. I will do my own thread as I was about to anyway.

I do really like the dark color of both yours. I think I like the form of the second one.

Neither these is the normal normal one, which looks like a lot like cc. And the difference is in the markings and label.

Bacon?? It must attract humans to pollinate it in the wild then??:rofl:

Very awesome, and pretty flowers.