A stunningly colored jewel orchid with intense vermillion red veins on a dark background with contrasting white Ludisia flowers. New breeding from Thailand.
Ludisia discolor hv. Red Devils ‘Gates of Hell’
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Linus_Cello
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Where did you get this?
It certainly has a certain WAUW-factor! 
(What's the 'hv.' standing for?)
(What's the 'hv.' standing for?)
From Thailand vendor listed in the COC Jewel Issue.
Horticultural varietyIt certainly has a certain WAUW-factor!
(What's the 'hv.' standing for?)
AhHorticultural variety
Meaning: that it is still a species, botanically speaking, but due to heavy duty linebreeding it has materialized with this stunningly coloured leavage?
Yes, or selected propagation from wild collected plants.Ah
Meaning: that it is still a species, botanically speaking, but due to heavy duty linebreeding it has materialized with this stunningly coloured leavage?
Beautiful 
Happypaphy7
Paphlover
Wow~ how cool!!
NYEric
Well-Known Member
Nice. Is this really a variety or a hybrid?
I wonder too. But I did see a flask of these being potted out and there was tons of obvious variation.
That’s the mystery of this jewel… some days wild and others say hybrid. It’s a mystery….
You can see even in this pot of 5 sibs that the central veins range in color from red to orange.
It seems to have grown more babies or off shoots. Just stunning these leaves.
Just1more
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Beautiful! Love these leaves. Is this a cool grower? A friend just gave me a small plant, simply saying it’s a common plant, not fussy. Keep it in the house, even less light than a phal. Pretty plant, but not the very striking colors of your plant.
reversion to type? Light dependent markings?
No, the leaf markings of each different variants of discolor are very distinctive. It only varies if too much light is given by becoming more yellow to burnt, or slows growth and may get smaller, or die.
I thought they were the same 'clone'.
No, they are color variants.
NYEric
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Nice but, that's not discolor. Cut me off a piece for the next Montreal Show.
