2008 Orchid Catalog
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2008 ORCHID CATALOG Dear Friends, Here is our new 2008 List which is chock full of new hard-to-find, interesting and unusual species. There is a lot of lively discussion generated when I show these species at our local Maui Orchid Society meetings. Our lab operation is looking great - and there are hundreds of exciting species to come….. stay tuned. We are still making the transition away from print and towards the Internet. Please take time to check out our website. We will be featuring our best species with added information, and we will also be having special offers. You can also 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. For email inquiries please contact Kathy at [email protected] It is a pleasure working with all of you! - Jeffrey Parker 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. TOF2497 ACINETA superba. TOF2072 ANGRAECUM superbum. Ecuador. Stanhopea-like plants can reach Gallery photo. Madagascar. (Syn. Ang. large size. Pendant spikes carry numerous eburneum subs. superbum). Large epiphyte thick cup-shaped fragrant flowers. (A. prefers bright light, damp conditions. Warm, superba is said to open more widely than intermediate. Very showy non-resupinate others in the genus.) Flowers are pinkish, white and green flowers line up on heavily blotched with purple-brown. Grow in impressive spikes. Long-lasting flowers are a basket so flower spikes can emerge from night-fragrant and are usually blooming at the bottom, and give bright light and Christmas. Vigorous good-size seedlings intermediate temperatures. 2.00” pot $10.00 need to get a lot larger to bloom. 3.00" pot $8.00 TOF1881 AMESIELLA monticola. Philippines. Small attractive monopodial TD21 ARACHNIS MAGGIE OEI. plants may eventually reach 5 or 6 inches Photo. Old standby. "Scorpion" shaped across. Large flowers are pure glistening waxy flowers are greenish-yellow with red white with a longer spur than its better- barring overall. Red lip. Requires good known cousin A. philippinense. Perfumed in light. Top-cuttings are typically shaded for the evening. Found on the edges of the about 2 months until well-rooted, then shade rainforest beginning at 5400 ft. Very nice is removed and plants are given bright light species. These plants are small, about 2 or full sun. 15 - 18” top cutting $8.00 inches of leaf span – but began blooming this year. We are growing these in an empty TOF2088 BAPTIRETTIA TROPICAL JUJUBEES. net pot – you may want to add some media (Baptistonia echinata x Comparettia to meet your specific growing conditions. macroplectron) Way out hybrid! Fun and 2.00" pot N.B.S. or B.S. $10.00 unusual flowers on pendant sprays are blooming out. Two tone red and cream with red spots and bars. Really successful hybrid – some have received AOS awards. Small plants are N.B.S. 2.00" net pot $12.00 2 TOF2324 BIFRENARIA furstenbergiana. TOF2363 BULBOPHYLLUM cupreum. Brazil. Really nice cultivar has many yellow- Burma through the Philippines. Small green flowers with a light yellow lip which is epiphyte has around 20 closely-spaced orange-yellow in the center. Nice looking copper-colored flowers on arching plants with wide leaves produce short spikes inflorescences. Blooms often. each with one or two 3” heavy flowers in the 3.00" pots B.S. $12.00 spring and summer. 3.5” pot $15.00 TD163 BULBOPHYLLUM dearei. TOF2476 BRASSAVOLA acaulis, Borneo through Philippines. Nice species Guatemala to Panama. Very rare, from the section Sestochilus. Good-size apparently growing in shady damp places up yellow flowers with orange reticulations to 3900 ft elevation. (According to Orchids of marked with some purple, dorsal sepal Guatemala and Belize) Differs from B. curves forward over the labellum. Often nodosa in that it has long pendant terete found growing on the bare trunks of large leaves up to 30 inches in length. Night trees. Altitude 700-1200m. fragrant. Growing well in 2.00” pots. $15.00 5.00" pot $25.00 B.S. TOF2140 BRASSIA signata. TD206 BULBOPHYLLUM dennisii ‘LIL’ CBR/AOS. Mexico - Oaxaca and Guerrero States. Peru. Photo. New Guinea. 6” tall erect spikes “The Marked Brassia”. Easy-growing each carry a large thin flower. Dark maroon medium sized epiphyte has 12” spikes with over yellow-green, lighter maroon basally several (2-10) 4 inch long spidery flowers. and towards the tips of the sepals. Really a Petals are light green with dark red-brown good and satisfying species – easy to grow markings. Whitish lip has the red-brown and blooms all the time. Recommended. “signature” in the center. Fragrant. 4.00” pot B.S. $25.00 2.00” pot $8.00 TOF2342 BULBOPHYLLUM Frank Smith x BULB. TOF205 BRASSIA warscewiczii. levyae. Gallery photo. Ecuador. Unlike any Brassia One of the first uses of the strange and you've seen. Up to 50 small flowers lined up wonderful new species from Papua New close together. Yellow-orange flowers have Guinea, B. levyae. Predict large yellow, petals which "cross", and polka-dotted lips. bronze or gold flowers with red tessellations Very interesting and showy novelty. Forms and a unique "birdlike" shape. Be the first on specimen plants quickly. Could be useful in your block! 3.00" pots $12.00 hybridization as well. Sweet fragrance. Nice large plants in 5.00" pots B.S. $20.00 TD107 BULBOPHYLLUM fraudulentum. New Guinea. Sect. Hyalosema. Fabulous. TOF2485 BULBOPHYLLUM arfakianum x self. Clumping plants have good-size reptilian Photo. Papua New Guinea – Arfak flowers sticking up. Basic color is yellow- Mountains. This is certainly one of the green, densely overlaid with pink showiest bulbophyllums and very expensive tessellations. Quality Bulbophyllum until now. Very attractive plants have produces many blooms at once on a well- roundish dark green leaves. The striking grown plant. Recommended. flowers are gigantic – 4 inches long or even 3.00" pot $20.00 B.S. bigger on a mature plant. Red purple reticulations over yellow-green – looks like TD221 BULBOPHYLLUM inunctum. some prehistoric reptilian. Recommended. Borneo, Malaysia. Incredible species was a 3.00” pot $25.00 lucky acquisition. 3” flowers are produced from rambling plants with pseudobulbs one TD2 BULBOPHYLLUM biflorum ‘LIL’ CHM/AOS. and half inches apart. Very showy flowers Sumatra to Philippines. Syn. Cirrhopetalum are more or less cream overlaid with pink biflorum. Two good-size elongated flowers stripes and an orange lip. Long petals per stem, which can be several at a time. gracefully arch downwards. Pink-purple overall color. Good species – 4.00" pot B.S. $35.00 Recommended blooms frequently. 5.00" pot B.S. $18.00 TD157 BULBOPHYLLUM lobbii '#3'. TD190 BULBOPHYLLUM cadenulatum. Borneo. We have many different forms of B. Philippines. Upright thin spikes bear single lobbii and will be offering the different ones small (1/2") attractive flowers with red lateral over time. This one is lighter cream yellow, sepals and a yellow dorsal with three red petals and lateral sepals have nice striping, stripes edged with white hairs. Small and column is dark gold. Nice flowering clumping species is very cute and habit. 4.00" pot $15.00 N.B.S. rewarding. 3.00" pots $18.00 B.S. 3 TD17 BULBOPHYLLUM lobbii 'DIFFERENT-NICE. TD18 BULBOPHYLLUM saurocephalum. This differs in that there is far more red- Gallery photo. Philippines. Easy-growing brown spotting over the gold background. plants have very weird fat, round, purple Vigorous habit, large flowers. pendant spikes, with small reddish purple 5.00" pot $15.00 B.S. flowers "stuck" to their surfaces. Strange and interesting. 4.00" pot $15.00 B.S. TD130 BULBOPHYLLUM macranthum. Burma through New Guinea. A forest TD169 BULBOPHYLLUM sp. 'MAUVE'. species up to 3600 ft. "The flowers are Gallery photo. Borneo. Really something! distinguished by their very beautiful shining (Cirrhopetalum umbellatum has been petals and their wide-opening habit..." suggested for this.) Huge umbels of several Petals and dorsal are white with purple unusual "mauve" colored flowers in this spots in fairly regular lines, the laterals are clone. It would be considered a yellowish along the inner edge, the same Cirrhopetalum, but the O.I.C. does not purple along the outer. Rambling or climbing recognize Cirrhopetalum as distinct from plant has pseudobulbs about 4" apart. “The Bulbophyllum at this time. Mobile lips and rhizome branches branch if damaged, and in nice foliage too. Color is more "pink-mauve' cultivation, beautiful specimen plants than the orangey image in our 2007 color develop if a sharp cut is made every six or page. Recommended for the Bulbophyllum so pseudobulbs..." (Andree Millar, 1999) fanatic. 5.00" pot $22.00 B.S. 5.00" pot B.S. $18.00 TD209 BULBOPHYLLUM sp. ‘ROSARY BEADS’. TOF2376 BULBOPHYLLUM mandibulare. Malaysia. Small very clumping plants have Found only in Borneo in riverine forests. little round pseudobulbs strung along a thin Medium plants have huge fleshy nodding rhizome reminiscent of prayer beads. flowers which bloom successively. Greenish Numerous small flowers are dark yellow with with brownish-red on the outside and wine elongated sepals. Very cute. colored on the inside with a lavender- 2.00” pot $12.00 spotted lip. Very dramatic and seldom available in the market. 3.00" pot $20.00 TOF2075 BULBOPHYLLUM strangularium. Sumatra through Moluccas. Large umbels of TOF2377 BULBOPHYLLUM FRANK SMITH x long cream and purple-spotted flowers - nice mandibulare.