Vanda species - Orchid Board

shadytrake · #1 (**permalink**) 10-29-2009, 11:38 PM

I got this HUGE guy at the orchid swap this weekend (how can you pass up a $5 special) and the tag is faded.

I know it is terete leafed. I did the moisture test on the roots to see if they turned colors and some roots turned green/yellow, but the newer ones at the top turned dark purple/maroon at the tips.

Any ideas?

King_of_orchid_growing:) · #2 (**permalink**) 10-29-2009, 11:40 PM

What are you able to make out from the tag?

stefpix · #3 (**permalink**) 10-30-2009, 12:56 AM

Have you tried to look at the tag in different light conditions? and look thru? take a sharpie and write over what letters are still semi visible?
google initials that you can read?
look at a list of Vanda species and see if there are a few letters that coincide with a specie name?
are you sure it is a specie not a hybrid?

shadytrake · #4 (**permalink**) 10-30-2009, 01:03 AM

The tag is faded white. I hear that a blue light might bring out what was there before.

One of the OS members who helped bring it in said the person who donated said it was a species. I'm going to ask at the next meeting for sure. I just thought someone might know so I don't have to wait.

King_of_orchid_growing:) · #5 (**permalink**) 10-30-2009, 01:37 AM

I'm going to hazard a guess. This is a total shot in the dark...

There aren't very many Vanda species that look like that.

So here's my guess:

Vanda lilacina

shadytrake · #6 (**permalink**) 10-30-2009, 04:42 PM

I googled a lot of pictures of that Vanda and mine seems to be more pronounced terete leafed...a really tight V shape almost tubular.

Just for giggles, if it is not a V species, what other species would you guess? Just curious.

Angurek · #7 (**permalink**) 10-30-2009, 06:34 PM

I think your best bet to ID'ing this one is to wait for it to bloom.

Roy · #8 (**permalink**) 10-30-2009, 09:58 PM

My suggestion is that its not listed under Vanda. I think it will be a Papilionanthe. Being terete, most vandas & some aerides have been place there.
The only way to know what it is, is to flower it.

shadytrake · #9 (**permalink**) 10-30-2009, 11:40 PM

I'm thinking that it is more semi-terete after reading and looking at a lot of pictures.

It is really fleshy though...

Roy · #10 (**permalink**) 10-30-2009, 11:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shadytrake

I'm thinking that it is more semi-terete after reading and looking at a lot of pictures.

It is really fleshy though...

Looking at the pic again, your right, it is a "semi terete" which basically removes it from the species list.
Now we are into the 1000's of possibilities.