Brachypetalum Extravaganza

[John Boy]

Here's some more, not much time to play with the kit, but I guess you can see what's what:

From left:
leucochilum outcross (no name as yet)
concolor China Type
Deception album
Iratsume album, and a good one too!
concolor (wild plant)

Good enough for an extra shot or 2:

Paphiopedilum Iratsume album "You're mine"

Paphiopedilum Iratsume album "You're mine"

 

[Wendelin]

What I can see is, that you've got a lot of nice plants! :drool:

 

[goldenrose]

... A little David vs. Goliath:
Joyce Hasegawa thinking about having thaianum for supper....

Run, thaianum, run..!!!

Dang! that last shot is wonderful!

:rollhappy:

Great comparison!

:rollhappy::rollhappy: How did I miss this a couple months ago?
WONDERFUL!!!
and the latest are wonderful too, especially Iratsume!

 

[peter.orchid]

Hello John Boy,
your brachypetalums are very nice,
congratulation!

 

[paphioboy]

That Iratsume alba is gorgeous!!!

 

[Howzat]

Gee, wonderful collection of Brachy's. Larger and better than most hobbyists living in the tropics. Congratulation!!!!!
I love that Iratsume. Can you give some measurements please (Flower span and Dorsal width). It could be the missing piece of white hybridising.

 

[SelectOrchids]

It could be the missing piece of white hybridising.

Very nice one, but unfortunately it is of no use for the complex white breeding

Complex white breeding use the dominant genes of insigne sanderae, which is a dominant albinistic-like flower, and the whitening effect of niveum ( which erases the brown and green to replace them by pink, itself removed by the insigne sanderae traits) together to produce white complex.

So if you use the iratsume album, or any brachy album, you get the same thing as if you were using a coloratum form.

 

[NYEric]

Thanx for sharing the 2nd group.

 

[John Boy]

I'm currently on a business trip, I'll provide the measurements of Iratsume when I'm back.

 

[SlipperFan]

What a lovely group!

 

[biothanasis]

Lovely blooms!!!! :clap:

 

[John Boy]

I'm really sorry guys, I've been too bussy for my own good. My trouble is: I'm horribly bad making time, and I can't work out how to squeeze anything more than 43hours into any one day.

Here's what's out and about right now.

"Black & White" on the right you do know, it's been kind enough to even start one further bud, about 2 weeks from opening, No. 2 still pests me for a cultivar.

Not quite your Thailand standart of frontline outcrossing, but good enough for thriving within Europe. I hope you'll like these 2. There's a few more, but the 2 are worthy of your attention...

 

[Mocchaccino]

i love the albino bellatulum

 

[eaborne]

Very nice flowers!

 

[Dido]

2 great ones you have there, would be great to cross????