More blooms in my greenhouse

[SlipperFan]

I posted these in an older thread, but I don't think anyone saw them. So I'll try again:

Angraecum cuculatum





Hammelwellsara June 'Indigo Sue' (Memoria Edmund Harcourt x Z. John Banks. I used a little Photoshop magic on this photo. Can you tell?

 

[Chuck]

You have wonderful flowers but your photos are magical.

Chuck

 

[JeanLux]

You have wonderful flowers but your photos are magical.

Chuck

I agree :clap: !!!! Jean

 

[Ruth]

Lovely plants!
Nice aura around the Hammelwellsara June 'Indigo Sue' !

 

[Susie11]

Lovely plants and great photos Dot.

 

[The Orchid Boy]

I wish my photography was half as good, I might have to get that second one...

 

[jjkOC]

Great photos Dot! I really like the Angraecum... very cool!

 

[SlipperFan]

Thanks, everyone.

 

[abax]

The Ang. is gorgeous and the photos superb...as always. Your photos are
always a treat to look forward to (uh oh...dangling participle).

 

[gnathaniel]

Beautiful plants and photos! Is either fragrant?

Might the Ang actually be Joyce Stewart (cucullatum x scottianum)? Most plants in cultivation labeled cucullatum seem to be the hybrid, supposedly due to a flask-labeling mixup when the Hoosier collection was being sold off.

This drawing is the clearest shot I've found of cucullatum's flower and vegetation, definitely pretty different from my Joyce Stewart which looks a lot like your plant.

 

[Trithor]

Dot, I often take my boys diving off Madagascar. It is a magical place and we love our trips there. It is great to see that other people grow Angraecums as well. I have plants from a whole host of islands and from along the East African coast. Do you grow any others?
Your photos are superb as usual.

 

[SlipperFan]

Dot, I often take my boys diving off Madagascar. It is a magical place and we love our trips there. It is great to see that other people grow Angraecums as well. I have plants from a whole host of islands and from along the East African coast. Do you grow any others?
Your photos are superb as usual.

You are lucky to be so close to such a magical place. I only hope we humans don't destroy this unique land.

Yes, I have several Angraecums, and related genera. It's interesting that when I was introduced to this genus, my initial impression was "Well, they are all white and look the same." Boy, was I wrong!!!

Do you know about the Angraecum Society? It was formed about a year or so ago, and one of it's mail purposes is to save the species in situ Madagascar.

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Hammelwellsara June 'Indigo Sue' (Memoria Edmund Harcourt x Z. John Banks. I used a little Photoshop magic on this photo. Can you tell?

That is pretty darn close to a "black orchid". Fantastic Dot!

 

[Paph_LdyMacBeth]

Beautiful photos! You are lucky to have such a gift.

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[likespaphs]

yum!

 

[SlipperFan]

Beautiful photos! You are lucky to have such a gift.

Thanks. But it's not really a gift, it's a lot of time and work.

 

[Tom-DE]

That Angraecum is mislabeled. It is a hybrid, perhaps Ang. Joyce Stewart . Nice looking plant anyway.

 

[SlipperFan]

That Angraecum is mislabeled. It is a hybrid, perhaps Ang. Joyce Stewart . Nice looking plant anyway.

Well, that's interesting. I got this from Erik Michel, who usually knows his orchids. But I did a search and found this cross of cucullatum x scottianum, which looks an awful lot like my plant:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/minicatt/5871957358/in/faves-genetobia/

If this is true, it's the second Angraecum I have that is mislabeled.

 

[eaborne]

Superb!