West Palm Beach Judging

[Drorchid]

Robert you are right it seems to me a Elfin Touch (Green Hornet x hirtzii)...
Linus I care about this kind of things... because some of this wrongly labelled plants can be breed and it will be a big confusion. And this is more likely when the plant receives an AOS

It could also be a Phrag. (hirtzii x longifolium) either as a man made cross, or as the natural hybrid Phrag. x roethianum, http://phragweb.slipperaceae.info/p...rue&detail=True&habitat=False&botanical=False

or the other possibility is Phrag. christiansenianum.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/P...Phragmipedium_christiansenianum_Orchi_088.jpg

I definitely can tell it is related to Phrag. longifolium, but those twisted petals throw me off... Do you (or anyone else) have a picture of Phrag. Elfin Touch? I couldn't find any on the internet..

Robert

 

[phrag guy]

It could also be a Phrag. (hirtzii x longifolium) either as a man made cross, or as the natural hybrid Phrag. x roethianum, http://phragweb.slipperaceae.info/p...rue&detail=True&habitat=False&botanical=False

or the other possibility is Phrag. christiansenianum.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/P...Phragmipedium_christiansenianum_Orchi_088.jpg

I definitely can tell it is related to Phrag. longifolium, but those twisted petals throw me off... Do you (or anyone else) have a picture of Phrag. Elfin Touch? I couldn't find any on the internet..

Robert

Here are a couple

 

[Drorchid]

Thanks Russel! Yes, it does look like that hybrid! The other possibility, is that it could be the parent, Phrag. Green Hornet. With these longifolium hybrids, it is sometimes hard to distinguish between them, especially if they are mislabeled and have other plants related to longifolium like hirtzii and or christiansenianum in the background...Also, it doesn't help, that longifolium itself is so variable (especially as hartwegii, gracile and hinksianum and other varieties are or were at one time also considered longifolium).
Robert

 

[Linus_Cello]

It's Florida...

"The Orchid Thief" suggests vanda bias...

 

[Erythrone]

I agree with you on that one! Also I noticed they gave the Phrag. Suzanne Decker an AM/AOS. Also a total joke. The form is terrible with twisted petals.

Robert

I agree....

 

[NYEric]

The problem is that some judges don't know Phrags as well as others, (judges and orchid families).

 

[mormodes]

I'm sure y'all will point these out to Frank Smith when you are at his GH for the Paph meeting.