Phragmipedium ritcherii 'Hydra'

[treefrog]

I just named it 10s ago
This is a very vigorous grower that blooms all year long. The spikes consistently branches which is not a common feature of this species. The plant flowering habit is difficult to capture with a picture so I've added a video.

Cheers,
Mathieu

 

[e-spice]

Very cool video. Nicely grown. I kind of want one now.

 

[mrhappyrotter]

So cool! Yes, branching spikes is one of my favorite features of this genus.

Neat to see your set-up and yard as well. Although I love the climate and biome where I live (except for several months at the height of summer and depths of winter), it's super neat to see such a completely different tropical environment!

 

[treefrog]

By trying to find on the forum other pictures of P. ritcherii for comparison, I found out their are no other pictures.....This is surprising how cool this species is with its elegant leaves, compact form and relatively big flowers.

 

[Hilmar]

hi,

yes, you are right I think, not many pictures to be shown, here another one

 

[mrhappyrotter]

By trying to find on the forum other pictures of P. ritcherii for comparison, I found out their are no other pictures.....This is surprising how cool this species is with its elegant leaves, compact form and relatively big flowers.

The correctly spelled name of this natural hybrid is "richteri" (or x richteri).

If you searched for examples using the spelling in the title of this thread, then that may explain why you didn't see any other photos. But searching by the correct spelling brings up several nice examples.

 

[ORG]

I must correct you in spelling the correct name. The species was desccribed as a distinct species. One of the reason in the description was thet the inflorescence was branched an flowerd longer then most of the other species. The longest inflorescences, which we saw before the description was more than 2 metres long. A long time it was discussed if it was a species or a natural hybrid. But I had never seen a hybrid whit so a constant morphology like richteri. I saw more than 100 plants in flower in culture, I have seen also seedling of and all are constant the same. When I remember correctly also plants were found in nature.
Here a picture of Phrag. richteri 'Anja' cultivated by Mr. Bauch.
The species was described by me and Jürgen Röth in honour for Mr. Walter Richter, an exraordinary orchid grower and gardener in East-Germany, when he had his 9oth birthday

 

[ORG]

I had forgotten to write.
Really an excellent cultivated clone, congratulation to the grower!

 

[treefrog]

The correctly spelled name of this natural hybrid is "richteri" (or x richteri).

Darn dyslexia, it make sense now

 

[treefrog]

I must correct you in spelling the correct name. The species was desccribed as a distinct species. One of the reason in the description was thet the inflorescence was branched an flowerd longer then most of the other species. The longest inflorescences, which we saw before the description was more than 2 metres long. A long time it was discussed if it was a species or a natural hybrid. But I had never seen a hybrid whit so a constant morphology like richteri. I saw more than 100 plants in flower in culture, I have seen also seedling of and all are constant the same. When I remember correctly also plants were found in nature.
Here a picture of Phrag. richteri 'Anja' cultivated by Mr. Bauch.
The species was described by me and Jürgen Röth in honour for Mr. Walter Richter, an exraordinary orchid grower and gardener in East-Germany, when he had his 9oth birthday

Yes, I know some localities in Peru where you can find them growing naturally on rock cliffs. Here are some crappt cellphone pictures.

 

[mrhappyrotter]

Yes, I know some localities in Peru where you can find them growing naturally on rock cliffs. Here are some crappt cellphone pictures.

WOW!

 

[PhilaGardener]

Beautiful both in the pot and in situ!

 

[FrankRC]

Olaf is correct, this is a species, not a hybrid. There are reasons in addition to what Olaf has stated. However, not a natural hybrid.

Best,

 

[Hilmar]

yes, I think so, too. We made three generations of richteri by selfing or by sib crossing and we got everytime the same type of richteri, no splitting or changing of the flowers

 

[ORG]

Interesting is also that this species came in trade also as Phragmipedium amazonica, Phrag. peruviana or Phrag. topperi. I have seen also in culture plants labeled as ecudorense. These were used also for hybridization.
It is really time to accept the name Phrag. richteri
Thanks also Frank and Hilmar, and especially Teafrog