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04-25-2015, 02:19 AM
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ID this orchid? yellow oncidium with sweet fragrance, similar to sphacelatum
Hey everyone!!
Someone suggested to me that this orchid might be oncidium sphacelatum, but I don't think that's exactly the correct ID.
It has a fragrance similar to sharry baby.
I was wondering if you guys think that's a correct or incorrect ID, and if it's incorrect, what do you think it is?
Thanks!
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04-25-2015, 05:57 PM
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I think it is.
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05-14-2015, 02:46 PM
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Not a sphacelatum.
The Oncidium sphacelatum is common in my area and the lip is wrong on your orchid. It may be a hybrid with sphacelatum as one of the parents. Here is what a on. sphacelatum looks like from here.
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05-14-2015, 04:55 PM
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Yellow & brown, but it does not look like O. sphacelatum. The yellow & brown "motif" is pretty common in Oncidinae - this could be a different species, or a hybrid.
O. sphacelatum is not known for being strongly fragrant, but does have a very faint scent; the faint scent is characterized by zingerone (the chemical that lends pungency to ginger), so if you are detecting that spicyness, maybe O. sphacelatum is "in the mix" somewhere in the genetics.
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05-14-2015, 06:27 PM
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Its cute, dude.
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05-15-2015, 01:26 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Orchid Whisperer
Yellow & brown, but it does not look like O. sphacelatum. The yellow & brown "motif" is pretty common in Oncidinae - this could be a different species, or a hybrid.
O. sphacelatum is not known for being strongly fragrant, but does have a very faint scent; the faint scent is characterized by zingerone (the chemical that lends pungency to ginger), so if you are detecting that spicyness, maybe O. sphacelatum is "in the mix" somewhere in the genetics.
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Yeah, this one had a very sweet fragrance just like the ethylvanillin I worked with in my lab. It's unmistakable to my nose (or I would like to think so, anyway!)
It's not spicy at all. I guess I'll just treat it like my other big oncidiums and let it thrive for me.  |
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