PLEIONE 2011

[ian mcenery]

Absolutely stunning plants everyone. Particularly liked Petes Lucy

here is my patch of limprictii in the garden.

[karel_t]

Sorry Ian, there are not limprichtii on your photos. They are pleionoides, however very nice. 
Karel.

[Maren]

Hello Darren,

thank you for the compliment about the yunnanensis. The picture was mine, the plants belong to Ian Butterfield. You can always tell if it is a rather abundant lot, about a foot across, in a green bowl that has seen a few decades of service. 

[ian mcenery]

Sorry Ian, there are not limprichtii on your photos. They are pleionoides, however very nice. 
Karel.

Karel I am by no means an expert with Pleiones (or anything else) but I have had this plant under this name for a long time.

I have googled both and whilst there is variation those shown above appear to match limprictii to my untrained eye.

Just how do you differentiate between these 2 species ?

[karel_t]

Just how do you differentiate between these 2 species ?

Ian, sometime there is really very difficult to recognise the true species. However here I'm pretty sure. On the picture below you can see the difference between limprichtii (up) and pleionoides (below). I also add my P. limprichtii - the photo is from last year. I will have the limprichtii in flower in 2 weeks this year, so I'll show you it later.
K.

[Darren]

Just a few more of my Pleione.

Gerry Mundey

Shantung 'Muriel Harberd' (I seem to have hundreds of these - by far the best increaser with me)

Irazu 'Cheryl'. I struggle to differentiate between this and Rakata ' Shot Silk'. It does not have the same silky sheen but is otherwise extremely similar!

Soufriere

The last one I bought as limprichtii but clearly is not - any ideas anyone? It is a large flower.

[Pieter]

Thanks for the feed back everybody. It is always good the hear an other opinion.

As for the  clone of 'Lilac Wonder', David you are very right to notice the difference with the original registerd form. These two clones are not from Bergel but are from the same cross made in Belgium. I find it is a nice example of how different the offspring can be when dother parentclones are used.

As for the yunnanensis/x taliensis, this has been a mistery for years. I bought this plant twelve years ago under de name yunnanensis but it was de subject of doubt with each new flower season as it produced its flowers. At a time a fellow Pleione enthousiast stated that it had more of a yunnanensis than of a x taliensis so I labeld it with that name. I would surely be happy as it can get its correct name.

Greetings

Pieter

[Pete Clarke]

A few more different clones flowering now;
Sifaka
    "    10
Edgecumbe 2 (My camera still fails to show it's true yellowness.)
      "         3
      "         4
Erebus
chunii
Alishan "Merlin"
Vesusvius "Phoenix"

[alpinelover]

Very nice Pleiones everyone, this Pleione 'Rakata' (photo 1) and Pleione formosana (photo 2).

[yijiawang]

Hello, who can help me to recognize these 2 Pleione? I found them in Sichuan China, altitude 3020meters. pictures were taken on June-30th,y2010

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Gorgeous Pleione everybody !!

Two more from me :

P. santorini "Yellow Wagtail"

and

P. vesuvius "Tawny Owl"

[Sarmienta]

Hello Yijiawang
Thanks for showing those really nice pictures of wild growing Cypri,s and Pleione ....Please more if you have
Those last pictures of Pleiones ,couldn't it be just a form of limprichtii.

Gr. Wim

[Pieter]

It is wonderful to see Pleione in their natural habitat. Thanks Yijiawang.

A few more came in to bloom, in less natural conditions, here.

1) Pleione Captain Hook
2) Pleione Paricutin
3) Pleione Surtsey
4) Pleione Bromo

[Darren]

This pleione has survived quite happily the last two winters in this pot with a cypripedium and no protection other than a polycarbonate sheet over the top of the frame. Given it is right at one edge I feel certain it must have frozen through ( a nearby pot of Narcissus was killed off completely) but it seems fine and 2 more flower buds have appeared behind this one. It seems to have some limprichtii in it but as I certainly don't still have anything similar in my named collection I can't ID it.

[Alex]

Some from me today - P. chunii, P. Edgecombe, P. Quizapu 'Peregrine' and a rather nice P. grandiflora with a yellow throat if it can be appreciated from the photo.