John E continues his sharing of orchids he has in bloom. We don’t have events at this time of the year for club members to see these. Thanks John and Winsome for the photos.
Dendrobium Hawaii Stripes was registered by Hawaii-based breeder Roy Tokunaga in 2012 and has in its background Phalaenopsis and Latouria dendrobiums. Some of the offspring are very striped, as this website shows. John finds it likes a lot of water.
Lycaste macrophylla var. alba which, naturally enough, John expected to have a white flower.
Masdevallia trochilus was first described for science in 1873. It is found in the cloud forests of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru and is cool- to cold-growing.
Oncidium sphacelatum is a hot- to warm-growing orchid from Mexico, Central and northern South America.
Paphiopedilum delenatii x Snow Squall. Paph, delenatii, from Vietnam, was for many years considered difficult to grow. But generations of selection of stronger-growing stock have solved that problem. Snow Squall is itself a cross of delenatii and the primary hybrid Paph. Greyii.
Thunia veichtiana is a terrestrial deciduous orchid from the lower mountains (600-1000m) of India and Sri Lanka, through Myanmar (Burma) to China, Thailand and Malaysia. Read an earlier post about this plant.
Tauranga Orchid Society 