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cyann 01-06-2018 08:00 AM

Cattleya percivaliana ('Henrique' x 'Summit')
 
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Dollythehun 01-06-2018 08:30 AM

Delicious.

Ray 01-06-2018 08:42 AM

That is a lovely species!

Cyann - I'm not picking on you, but will use this thread to make a point and plea:

PLEASE use standard nomenclature when discussing and describing plants. Folks around here are getting sloppy about that, and doing it properly can avoid all sorts of confusion.

The two most common mistakes I've seen recently are capitalizing species names and not capitalizing hybrids, and not using single quotes to indicate cultivars.

For example, in this thread, the plant is properly described as Cattleya percivaliana ('Henrique' x 'Summit').

It may seem that I'm being "picky", but these conventions are in place for a reason, a name is a name, and to take it even further off base in the wrong direction, we might simply refer to our plants as "orchids", which would confuse everyone.

dounoharm 01-06-2018 10:30 AM

ee cummings, my hero!

Dollythehun 01-06-2018 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ray (Post 863082)
That is a lovely species!

Cyann - I'm not picking on you, but will use this thread to make a point and plea:

PLEASE use standard nomenclature when discussing and describing plants. Folks around here are getting sloppy about that, and doing it properly can avoid all sorts of confusion.

The two most common mistakes I've seen recently are capitalizing species names and not capitalizing hybrids, and not using single quotes to indicate cultivars.

For example, in this thread, the plant is properly described as Cattleya percivaliana ('Henrique' x 'Summit').

It may seem that I'm being "picky", but these conventions are in place for a reason, a name is a name, and to take it even further off base in the wrong direction, we might simply refer to our plants as "orchids", which would confuse everyone.

You are being picky but, for good reason. 😉 Just as it took years to stop using contractions in graduate level writing, it may take me years to get this right. However, I will try my best. Also, good grammer is perpetuated by the written language (before Google autocorrect). Thank you for the reminder, Ray.

No-Pro-mwa 01-06-2018 11:43 AM

Beautiful Cattleya. I agree Ray, I do try to do the best that I can. The names are hard enough to understand.

cyann 01-06-2018 12:02 PM

thank you Ray is corrected

Tindomul 02-11-2018 07:14 AM

Beautiful!!!

Mountaineer370 02-11-2018 07:57 AM

Cyann, that is a beautiful flower!

I'm starting a separate thread with questions on the nomenclature issues Ray brought up.


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