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Neville H. Howcroft
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 05:44 am: | 
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Dera Edward and Steve,
Thank you for your quick reply. Seems like it might be D adastra.
Nev. |
Edward S. Wright
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 12:17 am: |
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Hi, Nev -
Ask an old timer if this might be Adastra. I suspect it is. Adastra is anosmum (superbum) x pierardii (aphyllum) and was also sometimes made with dearei. Mrs. McCoy and other early Den lovers had a number of them and they were similar to your description. I suspect it is the plant rather than your puffing re the fragrance. I do not recall that wonderful raspberry scent persisting into the primary hybrids. |
Stephen Kemp
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 12:12 am: |
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Hi Nev
You should be able to access the info you require at the RHS's orchid grex search page:
http://www.rhs.org.uk/conservation/registerpages/orchid_parentage.asp
A search using D. anosmum as the pod plant gives 5 results and as the pollen plant there are 20 hits
D. Adastra = D. aphyllum x D.anosmum
I have a plant of this which looks a great deal like D.anosmum both florally and vegetatively (in fact it was labelled as such when I bought it). The flowers are a bit paler than D.anosmum and perhaps a bit smaller but that may have more to do with my cultural conditions than normal habit. I don't know its origins.
Cheers...Steve |
Neville H. Howcroft
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I have recently seen an unusula plant growining in near full sunlight on a Ponciana tree and in near full sun at the Kokopo museum in East new Britain. The plant looks like an exceptionally robust D aphyllum but over 2 m in length, around 1 cm diameter. Leaf texture and colour is the same as D. aphyllum. Howver the flower is larger and looks like D anosmum but he clour is pale pink like D. aphyllum. The labellum is also like D. anosmum. as the flowers were starting to wither I could not be sure they had a scent ( Iam a smoker so my sense of smell is not good). The curator told me it came from Wide Bay in East New Britain. This plant is a curiosity as it looks like a hybrid. Can anyone tell me what hybrids have been made with these two species please as i have no means of getting such information here.
I suspect this is one that has come from someones collection in the past.
Thank You in advance
Nev. Howcroft |
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