Essence of Stanhopea: stanhopea tigrina var albescens

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Flowering season continues

Here more pictures of my flowering stanhopeas. Some of my mid-season blooming plants started to put up a show and it's always nice to have in a collection plants that extand flowering season.
Some varieties and crossess flower early. some mid-season and some quite late giving much pleasure and enjoyment to any stanhopea collector.


Stanhopea tigrina var albescence


Stanhopea embreei x wardii


Stanhopea pseudoradiosa

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Stanhopea tigrina var albescens

This “gold” colored form of stanhopea tigrina from my collection currently in flower. Its rare variety albescens and it’s presenting all characteristics of tigrina’s blooms, except tigrina’s colors.

The blooms are very large, measuring more than 26 cm across with two flowers developing on each flower spike. This variety have very large and broad lip and long wide horns. The scent is intense, penetrating strong vanilla smell that lingers for a very long time.

Stanhopea tigrina var albescens is another beautiful and unusual orchid for collectors of these unique orchids and it delights with its distinctive appearance and blooms.

If you’ve tried growing everything from Aspidistras to Zinnias and you haven’t tried Stanhopea Orchids, you don’t know what you’re missing. They are easier to grow than African Violets and far more majestic than any other plant. The variety available boggles the mind …

Be warn, though, ever since their discovery by English explorers to Europe in the 18th Century they have caused a “ Stanhopea mania” that continues to this day.

My own first Stanhopea orchid was Stanhopea Tigrina though I didn’t know it. Friend gave it to me as a birthday present – a trip to the library for some orchid’s books was quickly followed by the purchase of some more of these exotic, majestic, beautiful orchids and as they say – the fever had struck.

My fascination with orchids led to great friendships, lots and lots of reading, trips to exotic places (sometimes only through books) and the joy and frustration of growing the world’s most fabulous plants.