"Andrew" wrote in message
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On Dec 13, 4:45 am, "K Barrett" wrote:
I've been googling like mad looking up Sarco species. There doesn't seem
to be much on anything in weinthalii that would lead to blues, does there?
True, although in addition to the expected white to cream fowers,
Weinhart (weinthalii x hartmannii) can also produce mint green
flowers. While both parents have spot patterns in concentric rings,
one of my Weinharts has spots that are arranged in radiating streaks.
It would seem this species has a lot of potential for interesting
hybrids traits that isn't immediately apparent in the species.
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Very cool. I stumbled across this article by Roper (a name I see a lot in
the hybrid record)
http://www.ssos.org.au/FiveBestSarcCrosses.htm in which
he agrees about the impressive color range from weinthalii hybrids.
I'm just amazed that we don't see more of these in America. I wonder if
that's becasue they are cool or coolish growers and - face it - much of the
US market is biased towards Florida, Texas, California, & Hawaii and what
grows there.
Same with the Australian Promeneas. They are *much* more interesting than
what we see here, I think Prom. Crawshayana (sp) is about as adventurous as
we get. Heck, I could say the same for Australian dendrobiums. There are
many kingianum hybrids that we just don't see here.
K Barrett