Yesterday, I visited my friend and mentor in all things orchidiadic, Hans Christiansen in Fredensborg,, and I returned with a couple of really nice plants.
I was especially happy, when he let me buy the one flowering of his very few plants of the albinistic form of gratrixianum.
Because it's not a thoroughly albino plant, Hans designates the colour form 'albescens'. I think 'aureum' might, maybe, be more appropriate (bearing in mind the albino form of lowii, where the sometime remnants of anthocyanin in form of a few dark spots do not exclude it from the designation 'aureum')
First a couple of photos of the flower itself in different light:
Flower and plant in toto:
Hans brought back this plant as well as a few other select plants from Germany the other year. The plants came from a nursery, that's now closed to the public, but, as I understand it, turned into some kind of private museum. Hans knew the current owners now departed parents, who ran the nursery for many years. As a token of his longstanding relation to the family, he is once in a while granted to buy some of their exquisite plants.
I have of course no deal in the present flowering of the plant - that honour solely goes to Hans Christiansen. I just couldn't help myself, but had to share my excitement over my new acquisition. So, please, bear with me!
I was especially happy, when he let me buy the one flowering of his very few plants of the albinistic form of gratrixianum.
Because it's not a thoroughly albino plant, Hans designates the colour form 'albescens'. I think 'aureum' might, maybe, be more appropriate (bearing in mind the albino form of lowii, where the sometime remnants of anthocyanin in form of a few dark spots do not exclude it from the designation 'aureum')
First a couple of photos of the flower itself in different light:
Flower and plant in toto:
Hans brought back this plant as well as a few other select plants from Germany the other year. The plants came from a nursery, that's now closed to the public, but, as I understand it, turned into some kind of private museum. Hans knew the current owners now departed parents, who ran the nursery for many years. As a token of his longstanding relation to the family, he is once in a while granted to buy some of their exquisite plants.
I have of course no deal in the present flowering of the plant - that honour solely goes to Hans Christiansen. I just couldn't help myself, but had to share my excitement over my new acquisition. So, please, bear with me!
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