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Showing posts with label stanhopea frymirei x self. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stanhopea frymirei x self. Show all posts
We are right in the middle of stanhopea flowering season here and all of my stanhopea plants busy with developing new flower spikes and stunning blooms. It's great anticipation time, waiting to see some old-favourites that been with me many years as well as discovering new to me varieties and species. My own collection expanding all the time and I also have some plants that been with me for a number of years yet not flowered, playing a waiting game, testing my patiennce and endurance. The other day I've spotted flower spikes on a few of them and looking forward seeing them and enjoying their beauty and hopefully to feature them in this blog.
Our weather is very temperamental and unsettled at the moment - hot humid days followed by rains and storms with themperatures up and down all the time and it's a challenge to keep my plants in optimum condition and to protect the precious blooms, but then each flowering season is unique and it's a special satisfaction to see them all flowering to perfection.
Here is some of my stanhopea's that flowering right now:
This beautiful and rather rare stanhopea frymirei in my collection just finished flowering. I’ve had this variety for some time now, yet it’s only flowered this season and I’ve been anticipating seeing its beauty for a while.
It’s relatively new species, only been documented since 1975 and its native to wet mountain forests of Ecuador on the western slopes of Andes.
The flowers are large, pristine white color with 2 large eyes and darker burgundy spots and the scent is very unique strong and fruity with many undertones to it – it lingers for a long time, releasing combination of strong cherry, apricot, raspberry and the whole “fruit punch” scent, very pleasing to the senses and absolutely loved by everyone who smells it.
This season my plant sent out 2 flowering spikes with 4 flowers on one and 3 on the other and as it was flowering, the orchid was developing new leaves and bulbs and it’s quite vigorous species.
I’m quite thrilled seeing this specie in flower for the first time, since not many of stanhopea frymirei seems in cultivation these days and I am sure that it deserves its proper place in any stanhopea collection.
