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Lovely flower, Darlene! Actually, the parents can't have been 'var. annamense', but this seems to rely on a misidentification error perpetuated in eternity by the otherwise excellent Sam of former Orchid Inn. I think your endearing Freudian slip regarding the form/variety of the flower...

Beautiful, Rudolf! 😍

Very nice, Justin! 🥰 In all respects - and especially that the form of the petals is without the angular "shoulders", that to me makes so many a sandie unattractive! (I know, not so much about the plants, just my personal, aesthetic idiosyncracy! 🤪 )

Wonderful, Istvan, just wonderful! 🥰 And this actual flower's beauty doesn't diminish, just because you had a mishap with the other one! Please, tell us its parentage/clonal name - and, not least, whence you got hold of it? :p

Wonderful, dark colours, David! May we have a close-up of the staminodal shield? Please, expound on this....for us here high up in the Northern Hemisphere?1

Hear, hear! 🙂

Lovely henry!

I can follow your thoughts, Tony.....but must admit, that I find the slight spicerianum-like dorsal not without some charm. Glad the other 3 better lived up to your harsh standards! ;) Maybe, #4 could find a good home with some transatlantic ST-member (your side of the pond, I mean) who would...

Well, as the result of their hybridization with rothschildianum show up so clearly and stablely different (for one), I think, that you, if you prefer to see them as the same species, should at least grant them varietal status! And someone should teach the AOC, that the registrar at RHS is the...

I cannot but wholeheartedly agree! No reason to modestly retract or modify your claim, Chris. If anyone disagrees, I dare them to show us photos of a better clone! There is no doubt in my mind: this is a GM (Gold Medal - FCC) P. helenae fma aureum, if ever there was one! 🤩 Great job, Chris -...

Nope, I don't smoke what-so-ever, but might show early signs of dementia, though! 🤯 The post of course belonged in another thread....thank you for making me aware of the blunder, Rudolf! 🙂

This thread is from 2017 and the plant unfortunately long departed! 😪

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Very, very lovely coloured and beautiful flowers, Stephen! 🙂 As per usual, though, we are confronted with the Oceanic (read: AOC) cockup in regard to the identification of this hybrid - that in the eyes of the rest of the world and to the registrar at RHS is, correctly, identified as Wössner...

Wonderful, Leslie, just wonderful! 🤩

One gets a nice impression, but might we see the flower in natural light to get more of an impression what it really looks like?

They don't come greater than this! 🥰 (A sad note: while I was struck during the first round of covid (the Wuhan typical variety) my Lemon Elf as so many others of my best plants went to orchid heaven. The only, but quite comforting thought, though, is, that I didn't join them! 😷)

Pleeeeeazzzzzz...send a division through one of your European dealer-friends! 😃

Such beauty makes one (almost) forget the perfidiousity of Albion ("La perfide Albion" as Marquis de Ximenès had it, long before anyone thought of Brexit)! 😁

Amen to that! 😇