Why a NoID is a NoID.

[RosieC]

If it has a name that is good. Some names are 'trade names' though and are still NoID's unless the grower can confirm the true name behind the trade name.

What is the name on your tag. Someone should be able to look it up to see if it's a registered one.

It's difficult to say what info should be on the tag. Basically it should be the genus name and the species name, or the genus and grex for a hybrid. But how can you tell that is what is there? I've been fooled before by ones that seemed to have a good name, but it turned out to just be a trade name and have no real meaning. So the only way really to tell is to look it up on the web before buying and check the plant/flowers look right for what the pictures on the web show. Unless you have a web enabled phone it's not really easy to tell until you get home

[The Mutant]

Originally Posted by RosieC

If it has a name that is good. Some names are 'trade names' though and are still NoID's unless the grower can confirm the true name behind the trade name.

I have one of these. The tag says, Phalaenopsis 'Black Glamour' but since I couldn't find any similar Phals with the same trade name It's a Noid (but of course it's still as gorgeous as a Hasid ).

[lund0682]

This is an extremely interesting thread.

One thing I can't understand is why all the orchids available at big box stores are unnamed. I mean they all have little plastic labels in their pots. I wonder that the growers can't put a legitimate name on the label. I suppose the reason has something to do with money - in that it's somehow cheaper to produce plants without keeping track of what's what. Or maybe that growers have been careless over the years and not kept the best records; so now they're set up to grow huge quantities of anonymous plants and they couldn't easily change (even if they wanted to).

Do you think we'll ever see named plants available for the masses? I feel like the plants I see at the supermarket are more named than they used to be - so that instead of the label saying "orchid", now it says "Phalaenopsis Orchid". maybe things are changing?