Post a picture of it on ABPO when it opens and I'll see if I can someone
around here who knows Dracs to ID it. Here in the SF Bay area a lot of
people grow them outdoors all year round.

Paul
"GrlIntrpted" wrote in message
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Mine is almost there, it's open but the tails are still together. The
"monkey" face is clearly visible and it's on the pinkish side with the
white
lip.
I guess I'm trying to figure out if what I got from Andy's is the actual
species or if it's mislabled.....I'd hate to cut the flower in order to
send
it for ID....

Mariana

"Paul Simon" wrote in message
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Hi Mariana,

I have one but can't find a picture at the moment. If I recall, it's on
the
dark side, not light pink as some of the photos show.

Paul
"GrlIntrpted" wrote in message
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I know that not everyone grows Draculas, but I was kind of hopefull
that
someone here would know what's going on and what the Drac should look
like.
Is it possible that amongst the members here I'm the only one that
grows
this orchid? Eric have you seen this one, photographed it by any
chance?

A very disappointed,
Mariana

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I have a Dracula erythrochaete with 11 spikes (I think one blasted
earlier
today, it's yellowing). I have a slight dilema. Here are a few
links
to
the photo of the orchid. As you can see each photo is quite
different.
I'm
a bit confused as to how that's possible. I'm trying to figure out
what
it
should look like. Some of these pages claim that it's a native to
Costa
Rica, mine says that it's from Colombia!

http://www.lesorb.com/album/dracula/page1.htm

http://www.geocities.com/masdevallia...ochaete-3.html

http://orchids.org/ooc/Genera/Dracul...throchaete.jpg
http://www.hjmillner.freeuk.com/drac_erythroch.jpg

I'm dying of curiousity and my Dracula is taking it's sweet time
opening
up.
Meanwhile, will the real Dracula erythrochaete stand up?

Mariana