Sunday, December 31, 2006

Renanthera Brookie Chandler

The orchid on today post is Renanthera Brookie Chandler. This particular variety was crossed in Hawaii about 40 years ago. It was first registered by J P Russel in 1950. The parent were Renanthera Storei X Renanthera Monachica. Three young seedlings were brought in but only one produced show quality flower. This plant was planted in a clay pot and placed on the ground with dried grass added on top. This variety has shorter and thicker leaves but produce about 8 to 10 sub-branches with about 100 to 130 flowers per spay. Perhaps a 4n plant. Flower characteristic inherits an equal blend of 50% from the parent plant. A well growned plant can bear 3 sprays per year.

Another variety owned by my friend has thinner and longer leaves with crimson flowers normally having about 5 sub-branches. Characteristic is more towards the Storei parentage.

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Orchid - Renanthera Hybrid



This orchid cross was made by my friend a few years back and growing in my garden. This is one of the plants from the first batch of seedlings. The parents are the well known Renanthera Storei from the Philippines and Renanthera Bella from Sabah, East Malaysia. This species was discovered a few years back. It is easy to grow and sun loving. Details of the culture can be obtained from any article on the net pertaining to orchid care for warm growing variety especially for renanthera, aranda of quater terette vandas.

Perhaps one of this days I would like to cross it with Renanthera Brokie Chandler, an old cross which is still winning at orchids show. One thing fascinate me about this variety of Brokie Chandler is the stature of the flower stalk which shoot up from the stem vertically and branch out with about 8 to 10 side sub-branches. From a far it looks like a reddish orange umbrella, a colour much favoured by the Chinese for good luck.

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