Dtps. Luchia Roseherz x Dtps. Sogo Toshiba

[fredr]

I am brand new here (first post). I just won an orchid at a raffle at the Naples Orchid Society which I just joined yesterday. My plant is labelled: CL-R470CY Dtps. Luchia Roseherz x Dtps. Sogo Toshiba 6-29-05

From this thread I learned that this an unregistered Doritaenopsis. So what is all the description about? Was this plant staretd in 2005? What is Cl-R470CY? Why is it unregistered but yet named so carefully? I presume it is a kind of Phalaenopsis hybrid but why is it called a DTPS?

All this is weird stuff.

fred

[Gin]

Welcome to the board I think the numbers are control numbers if they had 100 all the same and used one in a cross they might give the one a number, the date might be when it was pollinated to produce the plant you have .
Gin

[Tindomul]

DTPS is short for Doritonaeopsis which is some kind of hybrid between Phalaenopsis and Doritis. Dtps. Luchia Roseherz is a hybrid plant that was used as a parent plant as well as Dtps. Sogo Toshiba. So the label is just a description of who the parents were. If it gets registered it will get a name rather than just having a description of who the parents were. Probably something like Dtps. Luchia Toshiba. Usually the hybridizer gets the honor of naming the plant.
Have no idea what the CL-R470CY stands for.

[cb977]

Doritaenopsis Luchia Roseherz
(Doritaenopsis Luchia Davis x Phalaenopsis Taisuco Roseherz)
This is a registered hybrid (it's parents are the names in parentheses)
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Dtps Sogo Toshiba...an unregistered hybrid so I can't find the parents. Th date next to it on your tag is most likely the date it was hybridized.

The other number is a number that only the vendor would really care about...it's not part of the name of the plant

[fredr]

OK, thanks everybody