Stanhopea Suprise

I got a flask of Stan. tigrina HagsatorXself from Troy Meyers in 11/2010. One of them tried to bloom through the bench unsuccessfully last year, so this if the first successful blooming from this flask for me. So was pretty shocked to see these white flowers with no "tiger" to them.

An alba form..?

Achamore said:

An alba form..?

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Seems that way. The parent is a normal dark form.

Although not what you expected, I like it.

Migrant13 said:

Although not what you expected, I like it.

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Thanks I prefer dark flowers myself, but there doesn't seem to be much documentation of albinism in this species so I'll keep it:wink:

Interesting, so did this bloom before the other siblings?

Love it. Here is one that I have which is supposedly tigrina semi alba

Rick said:

I got a flask of Stan. tigrina HagsatorXself from Troy Meyers in 11/2010. One of them tried to bloom through the bench unsuccessfully last year, so this if the first successful blooming from this flask for me. So was pretty shocked to see these white flowers with no "tiger" to them.

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Love it! Show us the plants.

I love Stans! Beautiful--not sure I've ever seen an album form of a colored species before.

David

both very attractive

If its an alba form, then it presumably will be worth a lot more than you paid for it..!

There goes the trade angle!

Achamore said:

If its an alba form, then it presumably will be worth a lot more than you paid for it..!

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I bought the flask for about $30 and have probably given away 1/2 the seedlings as Christmas gifts at our society functions over the last few years.

I still have about 4 from this flask, but this is the first to successfully bloom.

I've called in to Troy and he hasn't received any notifications one way or the other from anyone else blooming plants from this breeding, so this is kind of exciting.

theorchidzone said:

Love it. Here is one that I have which is supposedly tigrina semi alba

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Ya I saw a semi alba when I googled. Only a couple pics for it and no pics for straight white.

I think the semi alba is very attractive.

I wasn't really thinking of the commercial angle, since if it were mine I wouldn't dream of selling it. I was trying to cheer Rick up, by pointing out there was no need to feel remotely disappointed. This is a special plant, that's all I was trying to convey.

Achamore said:

I wasn't really thinking of the commercial angle, since if it were mine I wouldn't dream of selling it. I was trying to cheer Rick up, by pointing out there was no need to feel remotely disappointed. This is a special plant, that's all I was trying to convey.

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Thanks Achamore.:wink:

I'm pretty enthused about how special this plant is. I selfed the flowers to hopefully make some more and spread the joy.

Rick said:

Thanks Achamore.:wink:

I'm pretty enthused about how special this plant is. I selfed the flowers to hopefully make some more and spread the joy.

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Let us know if you send the seed off to Troy Meyers!! I know I'd love to have an album tigrina...

David

It will be interesting to see if the selfing gives the alba form.

What a beautiful white tiger !!!! Jean

orchidman77 said:

Let us know if you send the seed off to Troy Meyers!! I know I'd love to have an album tigrina...

David

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Well not this time

The pollination didn't take.