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2009 Orchid List 2009 ORCHID LIST IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! Dear Friends, Here is our new 2009 List of new hard-to-find, interesting, unusual, and proven species. Following through with our promise to gradually move from print to the Internet, we no longer will print and mail color photos. Producing those beautiful color pages has been a lot of fun, but it is time to move on. There are only a few us working and we need to put all of our time and energy towards what we do best; producing more new items and introducing them to the market faster. We are putting a lot of energy into new photos for our website, though, and 2009 will have the most new photos posted for any year since we developed the website. If you must have some color printed material, for a limited time we can mail you a collection of some of our best color pages for $5.00. These color pages are already “collector’s items”. Also, some of you may not be aware of Jay Pfahl’s excellent website; the Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia – a priceless resource, you can see photos of thousands of orchid species there. This List is only a partial listing of all the species that will become available this year. Please check our website frequently to see all the latest species as they are added. The website also has “special offers”. Our lab operation is looking great - and there are hundreds of exciting species yet to be offered. You can help us save time by ordering on-line. Or please call us Toll-Free at (866) 572-8569. You may also fax your order form to us at (808) 572-8917. You may print out an order form from the Ordering Page of the website, as well as download a pdf file of this List. Terms and shipping info on Page 23. For email inquiries please contact Kathy at [email protected] It is a pleasure working with all of you! - Jeffrey Parker 2 LOTS OF GORGEOUS PICTURES ON THE WEBSITE FEATURING OUR PARENT PLANTS! * All plants are sent in-pot unless otherwise specified. Many of these items are limited, so please don’t hesitate to mention specific substitutions. TOF numbers indicate plants propagated from seeds in our own lab. TD numbers indicate established divisions from our mother plants. TOF2072 Angraecum superbum. TD202 Bulbophyllum antenniferum. Gallery photo. Madagascar. Large epiphyte Philippines through New Guinea. (Section prefers bright light, damp conditions. Warm, Hyalosema) Larger pseudobulbs topped by intermediate. Very showy non-resupinate single leaf. Large 4” flowers are narrow with white and green flowers line up on a tall erect dorsal. Color is greenish yellow impressive spikes. Long-lasting flowers are and white with pink tones. Dorsal sepal is night-fragrant and are usually blooming at reticulated with small opaque “windows”. Christmas. Vigorous good-size seedlings Minute petals are like antennae – with little need to get a lot larger to bloom. baubles hanging on the ends. Rarely 3.50" pot $12.00 offered. 4.00” pots B.S. $25.00 TOF2485 Bulbophyllum arfakianum x self. TOF2324 Bifrenaria furstenbergiana. Photo. Papua New Guinea – Arfak Brazil. Really nice cultivar has many yellow- Mountains. This is certainly one of the green flowers with a light yellow lip which is showiest bulbophyllums and very expensive orange-yellow in the center. Nice looking until now. Very attractive plants have plants with wide leaves produce short spikes roundish dark green leaves. The striking each with one or two 3” heavy flowers in the flowers are gigantic – 4 inches long or even spring and summer. 3.5” pot $15.00 bigger on a mature plant. Red purple TOF2476 Brassavola acaulis, reticulations over yellow-green – looks like Guatemala to Panama. Very rare, some prehistoric reptilian. Recommended. apparently growing in shady damp places up 4.00” pot $30.00 to 3900 ft elevation. (According to Orchids of Guatemala and Belize) Differs from B. TD189 Bulbophyllum bicolor. nodosa in that it has long pendant terete China. Very attractive dark red-striped leaves up to 30 inches in length. Night flowers, tan base color. Showy ciliate dorsal sepal. Has made some outrageous hybrids. fragrant. Growing well in 2.00” pots. $15.00 5.00” pots B.S. $28.00 TOF2140 Brassia signata. TD2 Bulbophyllum biflorum ‘LiL’ CHM/AOS. Mexico - Oaxaca and Guerrero States. Peru. Sumatra to Philippines. Syn. Cirrhopetalum “The Marked Brassia”. Easy-growing biflorum. Two good-size elongated flowers medium sized epiphyte has 12” spikes with per stem, which can be several at a time. several (2-10) 4 inch long spidery flowers. Pink-purple overall color. Good species – Petals are light green with dark red-brown blooms frequently. 5.00" pot B.S. $15.00 markings. Whitish lip has the red-brown TD37 Bulbophyllum blumei. “signature” in the center. Fragrant. Photo. Philippines through Borneo. The 3.00” pot $10.00 flower does in fact look like a big TOF2407 Broughtonia negrilensis x Laelia Masdevallia. Really great species, easy to grow into specimen plants. 2 1/2" flowers crawshayana. have a dorsal sepal which is red-purple with New interesting cross. One of the small white hair-fringed margins. The lateral cute seedlings bloomed this year with pink sepals are red, turning yellow towards the and white “sort of like” Broughtonia flowers. tips and have a wide band of gold around Flower lasted well and so I am very happy their margins. Lowland forests. with it. 2.25” pots $8.00 B.S. Recommended. 5.00" pot $22.00 B.S. TD223 Bulbophyllum ambrosia. South China and Vietnam. Medium size clumping plants produce 1 _” flowers singly which have a sweet fragrance. Fully opening flowers are white with pink stripes and margins. 3.00” pot B.S. $16.00 3 TD109 Bulbophyllum Elizabeth Ann ‘Buckleberry’ FCC/AOS. Very showy and famous hybrid (B. longissimum x B. rothschildianum). “In 1968, J. Chambers through A. Low’s Nursery registered B. Elizabeth Ann. Both parents contribute the extraordinary sepals that are so elegant that this plant is very much in demand today, both as a beautiful plant to grow, having received at least 6 AOS awards, and also as a good hybrid parent.” (Siegerist, 2001) 5.00” pots $20.00 TD173 Bulbophyllum facetum. Philippines. Very showy and not-so- common. In the same group (Sestochilus) as B. lobbii and has similar flower size and habit. The name refers to the elegantly- colored flowers which are creamy white heavily spotted and tessellated with red- brown (actually, more of a nice purple in this clone). 5.00” pots $20.00 TD221 Bulbophyllum inunctum. Borneo, Malaysia. Incredible species was a lucky acquisition. 3” flowers are produced from rambling plants with pseudobulbs one TD168 Bulbophyllum compressum. and half inches apart. Very showy flowers Photo. Java. (Previously sold as Bulbo. Sp. are more or less cream overlaid with pink ‘Java’) I highly recommend this for the stripes and an orange lip. Long petals Bulbophyllum fanatic. Several spikes of gracefully arch downwards. many cream or white flowers. Growths are 5.00" pot B.S. $35.00 Recommended kind of far apart on rhizome - beautiful plants. Makes a spectacular specimen when TOF2342 Bulbophyllum Krull-Smith x Bulb. grown as a clumping hanging plant, creating levyae. really thrilling displays! 5.00” pot B.S. $20.00 Photo. One of the first uses of the strange TD188 Bulbophyllum cupreum. and wonderful new species from Papua New Burma through the Philippines. Small Guinea, B. levyae. Predict large yellow, epiphyte has around 20 closely-spaced bronze or gold flowers with red tessellations copper-colored flowers on arching and a unique "birdlike" shape. Be the first on inflorescences. Blooms often. your block! 3.00" pots B.S. $10.00 4.00” pots B.S. $16.00 TD239 Bulbophyllum lasiochilum. TD163 Bulbophyllum dearei. Burma, Thailand. Lovely little plant, the Borneo through Philippines. Nice species pseudobulbs are only a little more than an from the section Sestochilus. Good-size inch tall. Large (for plant size) bizarre yellow flowers with orange reticulations flowers are borne one per inflorescence. marked with some purple, dorsal sepal This is the “attractive color variation… that is curves forward over the labellum. Often a pale yellow throughout with light red found growing on the bare trunks of large spots.” (Siegerist, 2001), as opposed to our trees. Altitude 700-1200m. previous different one. 3.00” pot B.S. $12.00 5.00" pot $25.00 B.S. TOF2343 Bulbophyllum levyae. New Guinea. “New” species grown by Mrs. TD65 Bulbophyllum ecornutum. Ralph Levy of Memphis, Tennessee, and Java through Borneo. Section Sestochilus. named after her. Can eventually reach 16” Very interesting 1 _” flowers are borne singly tall. Each spike has 3 or 4 yellow or orange from clumpy plants. Yellow, heavily spotted flowers of interesting shape, with flat red with crimson and a red lip. The lip is lightly lips. “The… species inhabit the branches of hinged so that it can move in all directions. tall trees in the mist forests of the 4.00” pot $15.00 mountains, where they grow sporadically”. (Schlecter, 1912) 3.00” pots $30.00 4 TD157 Bulbophyllum lobbii '#3'. TOF2376 Bulbophyllum mandibulare. Borneo. We have many different forms of B. Found only in Borneo in riverine forests. lobbii and will be offering the different ones Medium plants have huge fleshy nodding over time. This one is lighter cream yellow, flowers which bloom successively. Greenish petals and lateral sepals have nice striping, with brownish-red on the outside and wine and column is dark gold. Nice flowering colored on the inside with a lavender- habit. 4.00" pot $12.00 N.B.S.
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