Pleione 2012

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Another little beauty, David !!  Very nice flower.

Some more flowering here today :

1) Pleione 'Captain Hook' looks a little sad.. 
2-3) Pl. novarupta "Goshawk" - flowering for the first time for me !
4-5) Pl. Sharon Ann Winter - also new and very happy with it ! 

6-7) Pl. mauna loa "Glossy Starling" - also new - very good dark red - the lip looks like silk !

[ronm]

Gosh Luc, they are absolutely amazing and obviously beautifully grown!!

[Paul Cumbleton]

Hi Arisaema,
Sorry but I agree with the others, this is definitely not P. yunnanensis. There has been confusion over P. yunnanensis and P. bulbocodioides ever since the original introduction of P. bulbocodioides in 1906. When this was introduced, the nursery first selling them got the identification wrong and called it P. yunnanensis. Ever since you can see P. bulbocodioides going around with the incorrect name of P. yunnanensis attached to it. So I too think your plant is P. bulbocodioides or possibly a hybrid with that species, but it is clearly not P. yunnanensis (the lamellae are incorrect for yunnanensis and the whole shape of the flower too.).

Regards

Paul

[sottych]

HELLO all

Would somebody can give me the name of this beautiful Pleione ?
Thank you in advance !

Christian

[sottych]

I think it is PLEIONE Formosana or one variety ,
Can you confirm ?
Thank you very munch

[Luc Gilgemyn]

That is a formosana, Sottych..

[Slug Killer]

Hi Luc, I see what you mean by captain hook, looks like its sulking:-)

Sottych, I'm viewing your picture on a phone sitting in the Etihad lounge at Manchester airport so detail is not that great. At a quick guess I'd say El Pico for the first one and agree with Luc on the second. Take a look at my hybrid gallery on my website and see what you think.

[ThomasB]

Some new Pleione flowering this weekend.

Brigadoon 'Stonechat' with good-sized flowers and nice colours.
Nothing bad about this nodding formosana alba (I think so?) but I got the bulb as grandiflora. 
I guess this hybrid of limprichtii x chunii is flowering for the first time, so the flower is rather small - really nice though with the large dots on the lip.

[sottych]

Thank you Luc and Slug ,

Slug I seen your website , your picture are beautiful and me Pleione same your Kublai Khan (yellow lamelles) and El Pico but white lamelles
Thank you

[Pete Clarke]

A few more of mine;
Indri - (Zeus Weinstein x grandiflora) this is my crossing, flowering for the first time. Disappointing as it is just a smaller grandiflora.
grandiflora - another first flowering from a yellow clone x self. A nice flower but I really was hoping for a yellowish flower.
Volcanello. A good, dependable nice clone.
Edgecombe - a more yellow form.
       "          - purple petalled form.
       "          - another very similar one.
Ueli Wackernagel.

[Maggi Young]

 I'm viewing your picture on a phone sitting in the Etihad lounge at Manchester airport

 Happy Hols, David!

[Slug Killer]

Thanks Maggi, now using free internet in Abu Dhabi.

Pete, I think that Pln. grandiflora is very nice with those markings.

[Paul Cumbleton]

Hi Peter,
Did you get your labels out of order for your pictures as just from their appearance I assume the top one is the grandiflora and the second one is the Indri?
Don't be too disappointed yet with your Indri - when my first one flowered it was nothing special, but the following year when more bulbs flowered for the first time there was a more interesting mix of colours, including some pure (though pale) yellows.

Paul

[Pete Clarke]

Hi Paul.
The pics are correctly labelled. Indri is the 1st pic. I have 3-4 other smaller bulbs, so will have to wait a year or two more.
I did not get many survivors from this cross.

Pete.

[Maren]

Hi,

flowering now P. Lhasa 'Snowball', two of 15 and all the same.