I believe the vendor bloomed it out in his greenhouse, which is quite humid.
That flower dropped off after several days in my house, and the second,
current flower was produced under lights, with RH around 50% right now.



That would explain a lot... That and the stress of moving from one
place to the other probably doesn't help much.

I have no idea what is in it's background. The tag is hard to read, because
of the thickness of the marker used to write it, but it looks like Phrag.
Dan Wimber.



Don Wimber, actually. That is besseae x Eric Young. Eric Young is
besseae x longifolium. So you have Phrag. besseae as a parent and a
grandparent. That explains a lot of your color issues...

Don Wimber is one of my favorite phrags. A great hybrid, and easy
to grow and bloom. A weed, actually. Good choice. If you like it, you
might also like (now i sound like Amazon.com!) Hanne Popow (besseae x
schlimii), or Jason Fischer (Mem. Dick Clements x besseae - also two
doses of besseae). Those are a couple other easy and very attractive ones.

Rob

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