PLEIONE 2011

[Maren]

Your Glacier Peak is beautifully captured, such glistening petals and sepals. And the dark Ueli Wackernagel is quite rare, I believe, it shows well the influence of Pln aurita.

[Graham Catlow]

Pleione pleionoides and P. limprichtii today.

[Pete Clarke]

A few more from me,
Volcanello
Askia
aurita
My don't know what it is.
? xbarbarae. I was sent this as scopulorum!

[mark smyth]

A lone Pleione Shangtung has flowered today having survive the big freeze in December. I must check the rest tomorrow

[ThomasB]

Pete, your unknown one could be a Shantung or Pavlof clone - just my guess.

Flowering here are Pleione aurita and Erebus 'Redpoll'

[Pete Clarke]

Thanks Thomas. I think you could be right - my ? plant could well be a Shantung. (Don't know Pavlof - have you a pic?)
The colouring of your Erebus "Redpoll" lip is terrific.

[Pete Clarke]

Thomas  - I also meant to comment on your aurita.
Is yours pale or mine dark? Not sure what is the normal colour shade for it.

[Maren]

Pln aurita can be pale or dark, they come in many shades.

Here is Pln Spot Nosed Monkey, obtained from Paul Cumbleton some years ago. This one has proved very prolific and produces lovely big bulbs.

And another x barbarae with a double lipped flower. I have only ever noticed this phenomenon on this hybrid. It can happen two years in succession and then the flower returns to normal. Odd.

[Alex]

Pleione scopulorum (nice one from Jan Moors/Crustacare) and a wonderful, large-flowered clone of P. pleionoides/speciosa from the same source.

Alex

[arisaema]

Pleione grandiflora, two different forms
Pleione x barbarae
Pleione limprichtii
Pleione yunnanensis

[ThomasB]

Don't know Pavlof - have you a pic?

I'm still hoping that a single flower of Pavlof will open completely but it might fade instead.  The flower is on the small side (Pln. limprichtii) with a frilly lip and brown spots on it.

Thomas  - I also meant to comment on your aurita.
Is yours pale or mine dark? Not sure what is the normal colour shade for it.

My aurita is somewhat paler than yours but I had darker clones as well. The flower shape can be different too.

Maren, Spot Nosed Monkey is a beauty and the flowers present themselves very well!
 

[Alex]

A few Pleiones today - P. coronaria and two P.scopulorum from Jan Moors (Crustacare) - beautiful coloured lip on these.

Alex

[Pieter]

Maren, S
Spot Nosed Monkey is a real stunner. Very nice.

Alex,
that scopulorum is a jewel. It is on my wants list for the season to come. How do you treat this species?

And a few more in flower from me. The pictures are not so good as I would want them( good lighting, proper back ground), but I made them in a haste before the warm weather made all my flowers disapear.
1) Pleione x barbarae 1
2) Pleione x barbarae 3
3) Pleione Fuego
4) Pleione Toff (a new addition but already a favorit)
5) Pleione aurita 3

Greetings

Pieter

[Maren]

A footnote on Pln Pavlov: this hybrid (Pln. limprichtii x Pln. forrestii) was registered by Ian Butterfield in 1991. I feel it may have fallen a bit by the wayside, as it is not shown in Paul Cumbleton's excellent Photo gallery on http://pleione.info/. 

[Slug Killer]

http://www.koolplants.co.uk/Pleione-Pavlof.html

This cross was done again a few years ago but the other way (forrestii x limprichtii) as the gentleman in Germany did not realise the name would still be Pleione Pavlof despite the reverse cross after trying to register it as a new hybrid.