Pleione 2015

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Need some help by the forum. Butterfingers! Some days ago a flower-box containing many of my spring flowering Pleiones fell down from the windowsill. Now it's all mixed up, the bulbs and the labels and I have to identify them by the flowers.
The first one is a reddish one (first photo).
In question: P. Caroli 'Cape Robin' and P. Kenya 'Bald Eagle' (2nd and 3rd photo from past years)
My choice is P. Caroli. What do you think?

Seems definitely 'Bald Eagle' to me, Ulrich !!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Pleione Caparo x Sifaka flowering for the first time.
Lucy, 2 forms.
Sifaka with spotting on the petals.
Another Sifaka.

Remarkable series of Sifaka, Pete !! 

[karel_t]

Ulrich, your choice is right. 
K.

[Maggi Young]

Quote from: Sempervivum on March 31, 2015, 08:48:13 PM

    Need some help by the forum. Butterfingers! Some days ago a flower-box containing many of my spring flowering Pleiones fell down from the windowsill. Now it's all mixed up, the bulbs and the labels and I have to identify them by the flowers.
    The first one is a reddish one (first photo).
    In question: P. Caroli 'Cape Robin' and P. Kenya 'Bald Eagle' (2nd and 3rd photo from past years)
    My choice is P. Caroli. What do you think?

Seems definitely 'Bald Eagle' to me, Ulrich !!

But  'Bald Eagle '  has a double keel , while 'Cape Robin' and Ulrich's red flower seem to have only a single keel? 

edit to add - I see Karel T. thinks the same....

[Luc Gilgemyn]

 
Hmm I voted for Bald Eagle, led by the very typical somewhat "flattened" flower shape that is so distinct for Bald Eagle and is also the case with Ulrich's 'red flower'... I think.

I have it flowering at the moment and it's really veyr simmilar - I'll post a picture tomorrow.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Apart from that, flowering is reaching it's peak in the collection :

- The unknown hybrid fro the "bunch" of pseudobulbs I showed earlier is now in full bloom - it seems to have some Grandiflora blood.

- Pleione Mandalay 'Purple Rain' shows it's true colour in the group picture.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Pleione Glacier Peak 'Fantasy' from a Forum friend ! 

Good old Pleione shantung 'Ducat' starts reliably it's yearly show !

[Maggi Young]

But  'Bald Eagle '  has a double keel , while 'Cape Robin' and Ulrich's red flower seem to have only a single keel? 

   by "keel" I mean the raised areas going from the front of the lower lip back into the throat of the flower - is that the correct term for it? 

[Sempervivum]

Many thanks for the answers to my request for identification. The single/double keel issue was the main reason why I guessed that it is Cape Robin. Another argument might be that the top of the lip is closed while Kenyas is open. I will label it 'Cape Robin'.

[Maren]

Luc,
the unknown pleione you (and I and probably many others) picked up from Jacques Amand comes indeed from Anthura. I contacted the hybridiser and he tells me that it is Pleione 'Glacier Peak', made with grandiflora and formosana 'alba'.

I also bought 3 more 'bunches' of pleiones from him, which are now coming into flower. I identified the second one as P. Dr. Mo Weatherhead (grandiflora x humilis), the third one I'm not sure and the fourth is yet to open fully, but looks like P. x barbarae. I'll post some pictures tomorrow.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Luc,
the unknown pleione you (and I and probably many others) picked up from Jacques Amand comes indeed from Anthura. I contacted the hybridiser and he tells me that it is Pleione 'Glacier Peak', made with grandiflora and formosana 'alba'.

I also bought 3 more 'bunches' of pleiones from him, which are now coming into flower. I identified the second one as P. Dr. Mo Weatherhead (grandiflora x humilis), the third one I'm not sure and the fourth is yet to open fully, but looks like P. x barbarae. I'll post some pictures tomorrow.

I think I can agree to baptise it as Glacier Peak, Maren.  Whatever it is, I'm quite happy with it !!    Thanks for helping out, Maren !!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Need some help by the forum. Butterfingers! Some days ago a flower-box containing many of my spring flowering Pleiones fell down from the windowsill. Now it's all mixed up, the bulbs and the labels and I have to identify them by the flowers.
The first one is a reddish one (first photo).
In question: P. Caroli 'Cape Robin' and P. Kenya 'Bald Eagle' (2nd and 3rd photo from past years)
My choice is P. Caroli. What do you think?

Sorry to insist, but I keep thinking your "red" flower is Kenya 'Bald Eagle', Ulrich.
As promised, here are some pictures of my bald eagle.

[karel_t]

I'm sorry Luc, however P. Kenya 'Bald Eagle' has no yellow on the lip - just orange with very fine blotches of red. If you see Ulrich's red plant there is the yellow edge of the lip, and yellow tips on the petals. The shape of flower is very variable and it can change from year to year 
K.

[karel_t]

P. forrestii are in full flower now...
K.

[Nova]

Lilac Wonder still going on (baby picture of right flower posted 14th March on reply #94), followed by Krakatoa 'Wheatear' and an almost out of bloom Krakatoa 'Golden Lip'.