Pleione 2016

[ashley]

A fine series Pete, that grandiflora x Sirena especially so

Quite a pleione plantation you have going on there John

Eiger

[yannsavoie]

nice pleione!

[yannsavoie]

unidentified Pleione from Anthura (Dutch pleione)

[Pete Clarke]

Lovely Pleiones yannsavoie.
It is such a shame that Anthura are selling such excellent hybrids with no name / parentage.
Pete.

[yannsavoie]

yes sure !

[sjusovare]

I've wondered for which reasons they sell their plants without a name or parentage, and I could think of  only 3 possible reasons:

1) They may not know themselves the parentage of the plants they sell, having bought either the mother plants or the seedling from not-so-reliable sources (remember they specialise in phalaenopsis reproduced by meristem by the million, sold under commercial names they gave them which have nothing to do with the official nomenclature and more with trademarks, and in anthurium... It's very well possible they just bulk buy young pleiones, considering that you can sometimes see different pleiones in the same pot, at least on those sold here...)

2) They may be in the process of registering those crosses and do not want someone to register those before them ("industrial secret")

3) Preventing further hybridation work based on theirs; no parentage nor name means you cannot register further crosses made using their plants as parents (intellectual property forbidding derivative work)

[yannsavoie]

or it's plants that already exists and it does not name them for not problem

[sjusovare]

or it's plants that already exists and it does not name them for not problem

Doubtfull, registering a cross does not give you any commercial exclusivity for it, in short, it only gives you the right to give it a name, but everyone can still sell it or use it (it's not a copyright)

[erf]

Hi all
Pleione xconfusa 'Blankenburg' is flowering in DK right now.
Regards Erling

[sjusovare]

Nice xconfusa Erling

All your pictures this year make me really feel the need to restock my collection for next year...  of the few pseudobulbs I managed to recover after the greenhouse flew away last february, only Glacier Peak was flowering size

[erf]

Hello sjusovare
Thanks for the nice comment.
Terrible to loose ones collection to bad weather. Once I lost around 150 dendrobiums and some 100 bulbophyllum due to -6 C for a weekend. It takes a long time to recover. I have always told me self, that now it's the end with orchids... and then I find out that I'm an addict  .
So now it is Pleione ...... and yesterday also Coelogyne. I just love my plants.
Good luch with building up your collection again. Maybe it's a bit late this spring, but there will be another autum ;-D
Regards Erling

[yannsavoie]

il faut vraiment que je me trouve un vrais x confusa , il manque dans ma serre

[yannsavoie]

it really that I am a true x confusa is missing in my greenhouse

[Steve Garvie]

Pleione forrestii -a clone from Vietnam


Pleione humilis

[Steve Garvie]

Pleione forrestii -the first another clone from Vietnam. The last two are different semi-alba forms: