Neofinetia, Unnamed 3-Spur Hybrid

[Shoreguy]

Originally Posted by Hakumin

This guy actually flowered about a month ago, but I forgot about posting the photos.

It is a sibling to Gongju, which is the thumbnail next to my screenname above.

I am unclear why it isn't also a Gongju if it is a sibling, ie has the same parents, or is it the reverse cross? If that is the reason for a different name, I never knew that a reverse cross merits a different name but I am always learning. It may make sense for a reverse cross to merit a different name because there frequently are pronounced differences in floral aspects.

[Hakumin]

Originally Posted by Shoreguy

I am unclear why it isn't also a Gongju if it is a sibling, ie has the same parents, or is it the reverse cross? If that is the reason for a different name, I never knew that a reverse cross merits a different name but I am always learning. It may make sense for a reverse cross to merit a different name because there frequently are pronounced differences in floral aspects.

Just because two plants have the same parents or are even from the same pod, doesn't mean that they are the same cultivar, or carry the same cultivar name. Neo cultivars are tied to the physical characteristics (as governed by the Cultivated Plant Code), rather than the parentage, and western orchid societies choose to be more specific by binding cultivars strictly to identical genotypes.

You might be confusing cultivar with grex, which is the name given to orchid hybrids for their parentage.

In this way, Gongju has a number of siblings with different characteristics and different names. Yeonji has white flowers with pink tips, as opposed to the solid pink that gonju flowers are. Another one, Chaehong has pink flowers with green lower sepals, and yet another with single spurred flowers named Ongju.

[Shoreguy]

Thanks.

I was confusing grex and cultivar.