hi all:

I have a phal speciosa'orchidglade' which has flowered for the first
time today. I wish it would flower as often as it throws up kiekis .
well.. the flower looks a lot like phal pulchra. I wasnt able to find
much info on speciosa. is it a synonym of pulchra or is it a different
species?

Thanks

Rajiv

post a pic at abpo and let us see it. speciosa is not pulchra.
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hi all:

I have a phal speciosa'orchidglade' which has flowered for the first
time today. I wish it would flower as often as it throws up kiekis .
well.. the flower looks a lot like phal pulchra. I wasnt able to find
much info on speciosa. is it a synonym of pulchra or is it a different
species?

Thanks

Rajiv

Have you seen this? Apparently you are not alone...

http://www.potto-webdesign.com/mailm...ch/000749.html

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hi all:

I have a phal speciosa'orchidglade' which has flowered for the first
time today. I wish it would flower as often as it throws up kiekis .
well.. the flower looks a lot like phal pulchra. I wasnt able to find
much info on speciosa. is it a synonym of pulchra or is it a different
species?

Thanks

Rajiv


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Another note I wanted to make. I don't know if this applies to speciosa,
but Olaf Gruss and Manfred Wolff write in their book "Phalaenopsis" that
lueddemanniana (which is in the same subgroup as pulchra, which Wallbrunn
claims speciosa to be a form of) throws keikis as a result of too many hours
a day of light. It has been mentioned on rgo many times that 12 hours a day
is the maximum for Phals. Maybe you have more than that?
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hi all:

I have a phal speciosa'orchidglade' which has flowered for the first
time today. I wish it would flower as often as it throws up kiekis .
well.. the flower looks a lot like phal pulchra. I wasnt able to find
much info on speciosa. is it a synonym of pulchra or is it a different
species?

Thanks

Rajiv


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"rajiv" wrote in message
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hi all:

I have a phal speciosa'orchidglade' which has flowered for the first
time today. I wish it would flower as often as it throws up kiekis .
well.. the flower looks a lot like phal pulchra. I wasnt able to find
much info on speciosa. is it a synonym of pulchra or is it a different
species?

If the plant is "properly" labelled (i.e. it is a "P.speciosa 'Orchidglade',
SF/SFOS"), then it isn't P. speciosa at all.

Here is what Eric Christenson has to say:

"Historically P. pulchra and P. speciosa have been confused in horticulture.
Unfortunately this confusion continues to the present day, largely because
of a widely distributed clone of P. pulchra erroneously labelled P.speciosa
'Orchidglade', SF/SFOS. Other than similar saturated color, the two species
are clearly separable. P. speciosa has a prominently hooded anther bed, a
spray of five or more simultaneously open flowers, and an inflorescence more
or less the length of the leaves. In P. pulchra, on the other hand, the
anther bed is not hooded, the inflorescences typically bear just one to
three flowers, and the inflorescences are either much shorter than the
leaves or very much longer than the leaves."

So then, speciosa is quite different from pulchra, even though they are
still often confused even today, but Christenson has given clear information
to help you distinguish the two.

If you want more information, get a copy of Christenson's book (the above
quote is from his book). He has plenty to say about pulchra and speciosa
and related species (not to mention lots for lots of other species too). I
turn to his book first, in most cases where I have questions about phals,
but especially when I can't find info on the web.

HTH

Ted

If you get ABPO, look for two posts on speciosa there. If not, mail me and
I will send them directly.
They are also from the book "Phalaenopsis" by Gruss/Wolff.
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hi all:

I have a phal speciosa'orchidglade' which has flowered for the first
time today. I wish it would flower as often as it throws up kiekis .
well.. the flower looks a lot like phal pulchra. I wasnt able to find
much info on speciosa. is it a synonym of pulchra or is it a different
species?

Thanks

Rajiv


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thanks for all the replies. i'll get a copy of christenson's book and
check out what he says. also i will post a pic on a.b.p.o soon of the
flower. Now all i need to do and wait to see how my phal pulchra
"oscar" kieki that i got a year back flowers for comparison. I had a
feeling that it was too good to be true when i got the phal
speciosa'orchidglade' from my aunt...lol... seems so..

rajiv.


"Reka" wrote in message ...
If you get ABPO, look for two posts on speciosa there. If not, mail me and
I will send them directly.
They are also from the book "Phalaenopsis" by Gruss/Wolff.
--
Reka
http://www.rolbox.it/hukari/index.html
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
--Winston Churchill
"rajiv" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
om...
hi all:

I have a phal speciosa'orchidglade' which has flowered for the first
time today. I wish it would flower as often as it throws up kiekis .
well.. the flower looks a lot like phal pulchra. I wasnt able to find
much info on speciosa. is it a synonym of pulchra or is it a different
species?

Thanks

Rajiv


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