Pleione 2012

[Pete Clarke]

Vesuvius.
Erebus

[Alex]

I hope we can keep this thread going a bit longer! Here's a P. coronaria today (excuse flash photo), a different clone (from Ian Butterfield) from the one I've already posted. Just P. scopulorum and P. hookeriana to follow now. Btw, I'm pretty sure now that at least some of the P. scopulorum from Paul are of hybrid origin, have one in flower now which clearly has that look with a very frilly lip and just one leaf. Still very pretty, though.

Alex

[Snuffeldyret]

Could anyone help me with a name for this one? It was bought as yunnanensis, but I dont think it quite look like that?

[Maren]

Hi Karel, 
I had the same problem, 50 of them. Ian suggests Pleione x taliensis.

[Darren]

This is the first flowering of a Pleione which came to me under another name entirely. It appears to be an almost white form of P. aurita. You can see the usual aurita behind it. At first I thought it may be chunii but both the flower and pseudobulb are twice the size of the chunii I have and seem to match aurita pretty well.

[Maren]

Hmmm, Darren, that's a bit special. How about selfing it and growing some more? A certain percentage is bound to be like the 'mother'. I wouldn't mind at all having a potful of those. Very pretty.

[Darren]

I might try that Maren. As luck would have it the (very large) bulb has 3 shoots anyway, two with flowers.

[LarsB]

Hej Snuffeldyret,

It can be difficult to say, but one guess might be P. Piton.

[karel_t]

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.

[karel_t]

Last week I visited The Malvern Spring Show and several friends in England. Here are a few plants from Ian's greenhouse, what I've never seen before. Everytime you can find there some new treasures
K.

[ThomasB]

Wow, Marion Johnson 'Oxpeaker' is gorgeous! 
But I like the pale coulor of Ganymede x grandiflora as well.

One of the last Pleiones to flower here this spring is Soufriere.

[Jan Methorst]

An unusual P. hookeriana

[karel_t]

Hi Jan, it looks much more like P. chunii 
K.

[Jan Methorst]

Hello Karel,

That is what i thought,until i checked on Paul's site, there is a similar picture there.
jan

[Slug Killer]

Hi Jan

I'd have gone with chunii as well. What do the bulbs look like? Pleione hookeriana are very small round bulbs and chunii are conical. Below is a photo of chunii on the left which is not yet but close to flowering size and Pleione hookeriana on the right which is a mature flowering size bulb. The flowers in your picture also look taller than hookeriana.

All look very healthy and you have quite a few there as well.

This link may also help - http://forum.terrorchid.org/viewtopic.php?t=1749&sid=779b4da48a7461f7ed4e2cfbe40b1f3a