Bllra. Tropic Tom 'Honker'
 

Woo hoo! My second plant to bloom this year! Of course I am looking for you guys to enlighten me about this plant!

I got this as 1 of 5 orchids from hubby for Christmas. Tag reads Bllra. Tropic Tom 'Honker'. Came to me with 3 buds, two have opened in the past couple days.

I noticed the first bud opened kinda wonky, any reason why? The second bud isn't fully opened yet. I am stoked at the awesome colors though, I love the mottled looking flowers.

For those of you who are better at navigating RHS than I am, can you tell me anything else about this plant? (parentage maybe?)

Anywho, just wanted to show off my newest blooming plant!

I have tried to look this plant up on RHS but I am not getting any results.. what am I doing wrong?

If you look it up as Beallara Tropic Tom, you won't find it; the genus is now Aliceara. A tip: never enter more info than absolutely necessary to get a return; I never enter the genus in the RHS database the first time around.

Ah.. see I am not knowledgeable enough with all this yet to know all the genus changes they have done. Hmph. Thanks for the help, I found it now. :-)

Lovely :wtg:

I didn't know the genus name change either. I just entered the Grex name 'Tropic Tom' and got the same info as msaar. Here's the link to the info I got; The International Orchid Register / RHS Gardening

Aliceara Tropic Tom 'Honker'
 

I purchased my plant last summer as a small plant along with seven others. TT just started to bloom and I noticed that it's petals are all curling back to the stem. I would imagine this may be due this particular cross. I don't believe they should bloom this way. Also I was wondering if this could be due to not enough water. Any suggestions?