What is this Dendrobium? - Page 2 - Orchid Board

silberhaarig · #11 (**permalink**) 12-06-2006, 01:23 PM

Weng,unless you have access to good providers of orchids locally,the chance of finding them labelled is pretty slim.And I live far from a city.So I have forced myself to accept NOID as the name for many. Frustrating as the dickens! But nothing spoils their appearance or their fragrance (if any).

cneos · #12 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006, 03:54 PM

I can't access your photo but wonder if your plant might be some form of Dendrobium kingianum?

silberhaarig · #13 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006, 04:48 PM

I wonder what happened to the photo. I was looking for it yesterday. I think it is possibly Den.Blue Twinkle(It looks like it),but I'll never know its real name for sure.At any rate it is a nice graceful blossom.
Thankyou for your input.Every bit helps.

weng · #14 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006, 04:49 PM

Silberhaarig, Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. I have at least 30 NoIDs myself. Some of them are actually better than my best named varieties. I just label them sequentially like this <Dendrobium hybrid #1 'Walmart'>. This way, the plant can have a 'proper' name, and it will never mislead anyone, should it ever escape into the wider orchid community.
Weng

Barbara · #15 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006, 05:19 PM

So does this mean that I don't have to be embarrassed about my unnamed supermarket Phal? By the way I have a varigated Den. kingianium. I'll post a picture if your interested.

cb977 · #16 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006, 07:27 PM

Of course we'd like to see your pic, Barbara!
No member of this site ever needs to feel embarrassed about anything...well, nothing to do with orchids anyway

Bolero · #17 (**permalink**) 12-12-2006, 04:58 AM

It would be impossible to confuse a kingianum with a Blue Twinkle.

I can't see the picture but I hope you are right.

silberhaarig · #18 (**permalink**) 12-12-2006, 11:17 AM

I sure would like to know what happened to the picture. The blossom is obviously one of the antelope type and is white with pale blue/lavender edges. As with many of my orchids which are NOIDS I bought them to rescue them from Walmart or Lowes and because I liked them.As I have no plans to get into doing more with them than just admiring them, I figure it would be nice to know the name but not really essential. I'm getting philosophical in my old age.

Thankyou for your comments. They all help.

silberhaarig · #19 (**permalink**) 12-12-2006, 12:34 PM

Weng,please don't think that I felt you were rude.You weren't. It was just my abrupt response.

I would re-post the picture,but Photobucket has deserted me. I can't access it as it does not accept my name and password,and doesn't respond to a request to email me my name and password. Apparently it has deleted the few pictures of mine that I posted with them.