I missed it, could somebody please mail me the pic???


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Yours Sincerely
Kye


"Al Pickrel" wrote in message
news:gRmXi.2603$3j7.1126@trnddc02...
The flower looks very much like chibae in terms of color and markings.
However, chibae is a larger plant than appendiculata; 6 to 10 inch leaf
span....and the leaves are different. The flower is a little larger too.
And the spikes, (at least on mine) are very long.

This plant is very odd. It has 8 or 10 pair of leaves and has been
maturing for about 6 years. It looks like a tiny pulcherima in terms of
growth habit. It has 4 spikes and will have like 50 flowers and yet the
whole plant in flower is about the size of US quarter. The flower has a
sack-like spur on the back of the lip when viewed from behind, so I don't
think it is in the Phal genus. In fact, I know it is not. I would
recognize any previously described Phal.

When I got the appendiculata, it was freshly imported and resold to me.
This plant was attached to the side and had two tiny leaves (less than 1/4
inch leaf span) and I thought it was a basil keikie on the appendiculata.
So this thing hitched a ride into the county without going officially
through customs.... It is an illegal alien BUT I am sure it can't be new
to science. It has to have been described. I have pulled rare albino
forms of speices out of wholesale boxes and found some very neat
mislabeled species in similar orders but I just can't believe it has never
been seen before...

I was hoping that Eric H would see these pictures and recognize it. He
has been very helpful before with ID.

Anybody know Eric Christenson's email address?


"K Barrett" wrote in message
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Chibae?

K Barrett

"Al Pickrel" wrote in message
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Growing on the bark to the left of the Phal appendiculata is a very
small
monopodial orchid. Does anybody know what it is. The purple flower on
the
Phal appendiculata is about the size of a #2 pencil eraser which should
give
you some idea of how small a plant I am talking about. If you have any
ID
ideas please speak up.

:-) Thanks.
Al