It's Brassavola & family - time! 1

[Secundino]

This is Brassavola David Sander (digbyana x cucullata):

A 17cm flower, with a very long pedicel/ovary. Too much sun this morning; I'll make a better photograph the next days.

 

[Happypaphy7]

I love this! Thanks!

 

[AdamD]

Gorgeous, is it fragrant?

 

[Lanmark]

I like this!

 

[NYEric]

Gorgeous, is it fragrant?

Like digbyana!?

 

[SlipperFan]

That is a nice one. I love frilly lips!

 

[abax]

What a lovely lip...very frilly and looks like a ballet tutu.

 

[Ozpaph]

very nice hybrid considering the parental differential

 

[Secundino]

Flower is now 18,5 x 17,5 cm big, pedicel nearly 19cm (that must be cucullata). A faint smell, like digbyana, with a few dewdrops in the interior of the lip (like in digbyana). I like the extended tip of the lip (cucullata) and the open, non-drooping flower, even when it is in its natural orientation looking down.

I wonder if there is any chance to conserve (part of) the frilly lip when crossing with nodosa. Nodosa for flower count! ( Bv. Jimminey Cricket (nodosa x digbyana) has nearly no fimbriation. )

 

[Ozpaph]

just lovely

 

[Erythrone]

Gorgeous!!

 

[Secundino]

Still in best shape. Bc. Maikai is opening right now, I wonder if it would be a interesting cross - Guarianthe x nodosa X cucullata x digbyana . Rhyncanthe Jim Chew (bowringiana x digbyana) was registered only last year (!) so I believe it is either a cross which does not readily form seeds or a cross which does not grow/flower well. The three photographs I found in the web are quite different from each another, but somehow showy. nodosa x cucullata is Bv. Yaki, which is to me a gorgeous plant, too.

 

[SlipperFan]

That is a great flower!

 

[Migrant13]

And your photos are awesome too!

 

[abax]

I love the side view of the flower. It look even more like
a beautiful ballet dancer in a frilly tutu.

 

[paphioboy]

Very nice! I love the David Sanders with pink tones like yours. Used to have one plant with similarly large flowers and long petals but it didn't last long due to black rot..

 

[Secundino]

This flower just faded. Forty days flowering, I think that is pretty good!

 

[blondie]

very nice such a good hybrid, and very tolerant plant to great growing

 

[Don I]

Very nice.
Don

 

[Happypaphy7]

I like how small the plant seems in the picture.
The ones I've seen had these very long dangly leaves. lol