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Kulelat 03-21-2021 07:48 AM

NOID, My friend just gave it to me (UPDATED: ORCHID STARTED TO BLOOM 🌻)
 
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I've been in the hobby of orchids recently but I've never seen this type of orchid. My friend said he found it stuck to the bark of a felled tree. He also has the same type of orchid but according to him, it never produced flowers. It only makes this kind of structures (they look like serrated flower structures maybe, in photo).

Thanks for the response. Hoping to learn more with you guys! Cheers!

(Update : The orchid started to make a flower/s soon maybe)

Roberta 03-21-2021 12:11 PM

First, Welcome!
Without flowers quite impossible to make an identification. I would suspect that it is in the Vanda family, but that's still a big group. That does look like a flower spike. If it blooms then maybe an ID is possible.

estación seca 03-21-2021 04:05 PM

Welcome to the Orchid Board!

Post photos when it blooms. People will probably be able to give you a genus.

Orchidtinkerer 03-21-2021 04:07 PM

I would have guessed a Vanda crossed with a phalaenopsis.

It is actually producing 3 flower spikes, the leaves have some resemblance to phals but the leaf spacing is far too wide for a regular phal.

Kulelat 03-21-2021 05:14 PM

Thank you, will do.

Mr.Fakename 03-21-2021 06:33 PM

Interesting, the spikes are reminiscent of Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi.

Do you have more info about the location where it was found?

Roberta 03-21-2021 06:46 PM

It also reminds me of the developing spikes on my Phal hygrochila (Hygrochilus parishii) but that one is larger, and also comes from southern China and southeast Asia... I was assuming if the plant from the OP was from the Philippines, that wouldn't make sense... but could be related, one of those less common Vandaceous genera that might have been lumped into Phalaenopsis by now. If it turns out to be a hybrid, Vandopirea Little One (which is now a Phalaenopsis since both Vandaceous parents got the lumping treatment) comes to mind. Looking forward to seeing flowers.

Fairorchids 03-22-2021 08:48 AM

Could look like an Aerides, though leaves are slighly wider than most species.

jcec1 03-28-2021 12:27 PM

I think it might be a Gastrochilus.

Kulelat 04-29-2021 06:44 PM

[UPDATE] The no ID orchid finally made some flowers!
 
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Hopefully this will help in identification.


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