Oncidium ornithorhynchum - Orchid Board

Rosim_in_BR · #1 (**permalink**) 07-23-2009, 05:37 PM

This is to be seen from a distance... actually a good distance! Rotten egg is the paradise compared to these smelly flowers!!!! Every year it is the same thing, I have to put it out of the grh... or me! I agree that the flowers are beautiful, but I don't know were I had my mind (nose?) when I decided to get this!

pheli · #2 (**permalink**) 07-23-2009, 11:47 PM

I like this pretty oncidium. But the humid summer this year almost killed my plant.

nenella · #3 (**permalink**) 07-24-2009, 08:47 AM

Oh no... I didn't know they smelt 'Bad'

I have one too but it hasn't bloomed yet... anyway, great photos!

kinknstein · #4 (**permalink**) 07-24-2009, 01:03 PM

I had thought the scent was rather nice, reminded of those scratch and sniff things we had when I was a kid! Maybe my nose is crazy though. Really good photos Mauro, mine is blooming right now too!!

RosieC · #5 (**permalink**) 07-25-2009, 12:37 PM

Wow, great pics, shame if it smells

catwalker808 · #6 (**permalink**) 08-14-2009, 03:00 AM

Just saw this post. That's funny, Rosim. Like kinknstein, I think ornithorhynchum has a nice fragrance.

Ornithorhynchum is one parent of Onc Jamie Sutton. And Onc Jamie Sutton x Onc Honolulu = Onc Sharry Baby, which has a beautiful chocolate-vanilla fragrance. I always thought that ornithorhynchum was a major contributor to the beautiful fragrance of Sharry Baby. Onc ornithorhynchum x Twinkle = Onc. Tsiku Marguerite is also lightly but nicely fragrant. How strange!

... unless our ornithorhynchum and your ornithorhynchum are different plants.

Beverly · #7 (**permalink**) 08-14-2009, 09:17 AM

Those are beautiful flowers. I think I have the same plant, but it hasn't flowered yet. I have a bunch of related plants because I love their fragrance. I've read that everybody reacts differently to different fragrances.
Beverly

Rosim_in_BR · #8 (**permalink**) 08-14-2009, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by catwalker808

Just saw this post. That's funny, Rosim. Like kinknstein, I think ornithorhynchum has a nice fragrance.

Ornithorhynchum is one parent of Onc Jamie Sutton. And Onc Jamie Sutton x Onc Honolulu = Onc Sharry Baby, which has a beautiful chocolate-vanilla fragrance. I always thought that ornithorhynchum was a major contributor to the beautiful fragrance of Sharry Baby. Onc ornithorhynchum x Twinkle = Onc. Tsiku Marguerite is also lightly but nicely fragrant. How strange!

... unless our ornithorhynchum and your ornithorhynchum are different plants.

It is the same plant Catwalker, I mean, the same species. Nevertheless, I suspect that the original plants that came into Brazil hadn't good fragrance and then with commercial multiplication almost all of these we have here by now do not smell good .
I agree with Beverly above, reaction to fragrances varies from person to person. But, it is also true that some 'fragrances' are perceived, in a general way, as pleasant or unpleasant to the sense. The plants we have here in Brazil are clearly in the 'unpleasant' side in my opinion, because the vast majority doesn't like its fragrance

. They really stink of rotten egg!

nenella · #9 (**permalink**) 08-14-2009, 06:43 PM

I am 'touching wood ' that mine is one of the 'nice' fragrance ones! my guess is it will flower next year

Roly0217 · #10 (**permalink**) 08-14-2009, 06:47 PM

We had an ornothirhynchum in our display at the show and I didn't detect a rotten smell. It was actually rather sweet and the plant was in full bloom. I love the blooms on the little platapus