Pleione 2012

[Jan Methorst]

David,

The bulbs are definitely conical,but quite small,i did not expect so many to flower.
I did treat them as hookeriana with a prolonged cold storage until the end of April.
These chunii and hookeriana species  must be very close.(apart from the shape of the bulb).
They are growing in 100% sphagnum and seem to like it.
Anyway.. another  change of name!
Thanks (and Karel) for  sorting this out.
jan

[Lvandelft]

Lvandelft - as I've promised, showed your plants on the photo to Ian, last week. By his opinion they are P. pleionoides and the pale one is P. formosana.

Thank you for your much appreciated efforts, Karel.
But whatever it is I cannot believe that the white flower is a P. formosana, because I never grew this plant here and so it has to be a mutation or a seedling (I left some years ago a seed pod on one bulb when replanting in late winter) ??
So I still stick with some questions

[Snuffeldyret]

Lvandelft - as I've promised, showed your plants on the photo to Ian, last week. By his opinion they are P. pleionoides and the pale one is P. formosana.

Snuffeldyret - your plant could be P. x taliensis, however there only is a few markings of P. yunnanensis. It looks more like its seed parent P. bulbocodioides.

Darren - very nice P. aurita. Sometimes they are very pale. One of mine is more pale than the others.
K.

So I'm guessing its a bulbocodioides then..  Thats pretty disapointing. Well you cant be lucky every time..

[LarsB]

I think Karel meant a hybrid with P. bulbocodioides as a seed parent.

[Graham Catlow]

Pleione scopulorum is flowering for the first time for me. From Ian Butterfield at the end of 2010.
What a lovely cute little flower this is. I had only ever seen photos of it before. Don't know if it should be bigger but it is the smallest flowering Pleione I have ever seen.
It might just be my new favourite.

[karel_t]

Really nice scopulorum Graham! Here are a several of mine.
So, goodbye the spring season and we all will meet here in the autumn 
K.

[Graham Catlow]

Thanks Karel, and a nice group from you also.
Not quite finished with the spring ones here yet.
Been a funny season
Should have another photo in a few days.

[Alex]

Not quite done here either, but close...here are P. scopulorum and P. hookeriana.

Alex

[Maren]

Still hanging in there, amazingly, at the end of June, never happened before:

Pleione chunii

[Maren]

Help Maggi, I don't know why my first picture comes up so big. any ideas?

[Maggi Young]

Help Maggi, I don't know why my first picture comes up so big. any ideas?

I expect because you have edited it for size to be under 500kb without realising that it is also preferable to have the pixel size restricted as well.  I will resize for you.

[Maren]

Thank you Maggi, much appreciated.

[Maggi Young]

Thank you Maggi, much appreciated.

My pleasure - gave me a good excuse to spend some time admiring them

[Maren]

Pleione Video

Hi, can you help please? someone posted a link to a very interesting pleione video, showing them growing vertically at the mouth of a railway tunnel. I would love to use that as inspiration for my display at the next London Orchid Show (rats permitting ).

Please can you re-send the link. I shall look after it better this time.

[karel_t]

Hi Maren,
I've found this one:
Hope it will help.
K.