New Cypripedium Hybrids for 2009

[fundulopanchax]

Paul Perakos and I have been hybridizing Cypripedium since the 2004 season and this year we have first blooms to show. Each of these has been submitted for registration to the RHS. So far Memoria Charles Frail Jr and Anna Marie have been accepted and are on the RHS website.

Cyp GPH Memoria Charles Frail Jr is a cross of Cyp pubescens x Cyp macranthos alba

Cyp GPH Anna Marie is a cross of Cyp henryi x Cyp flavum. We have a number of these blooming and they are all identical in appearance.

Cyp Marika is a cross of Cyp candidum x Cyp Aki. Paul's very first artificial pollenation - it will be difficult to beat it!

Cyp GPH Barbara is a cross of Cyp Favillianum x Cyp fasciolatum. This is a very large, robust plant with large flower - two stems, each with a flower in its first blooming season.

Cyp GPH Charles is a cross of Cyp henryi x Cyp montanum. A tiny flower on a plant of candidum size.

We have a couple of additional hybrids in bud.....

Ron

 

[Drorchid]

Thanks for sharing!

Robert

 

[biothanasis]

Wonderful all of them!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

 

[NYEric]

Nice, I'll take one of the GPH Anna Marie and one of the Marika!

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Great to see your first hybrids in flower finally. My favs are Marika, Anna Marie, and Barbara. Thanks for sharing and congrats!

 

[Jorch]

They are all so beautiful! I esp like Anne Marie and Barbara :drool:

 

[parvi_17]

Very, very cool!

 

[fundulopanchax]

As at least a step-parent to all of them I will say that I like them all. We do have another blooming hybrid that we havent named yet since, to put it as Paul said, "Who do we not like - we can name it after them!" Actually, it looks nicer than many hybrids I have seen but compared to Anna Marie, Marika and Barbara, it is a poor relation! I will put up another new hybrid photo in another post - it is by Werner Frosch and is blooming now for the first time for me. It shares fasciolatum as a parent with Barbara and it is also huge and bold. Unfortunately, it was insect-pollenated so Werner does not know the other parent. Perhaps folks can guess at it when they see the photo.

Ron

 

[fundulopanchax]

As at least a step-parent to all of them I will say that I like them all. We do have another blooming hybrid that we havent named yet since, to put it as Paul said, "Who do we not like - we can name it after them!" Actually, it looks nicer than many hybrids I have seen but compared to Anna Marie, Marika and Barbara, it is a poor relation!

Ron

 

[Hakone]

very nice

 

[CodPaph]

show very very nice bloom

 

[ORG]

Dear Ron,
many thanks for the interesting pictures.

Best greetings

Olaf

 

[Ross]

Thanks, Ron for sharing. It's always exciting to see new crosses bloom, especially when they're yours.

 

[smartie2000]

beautiful! thanks for sharing your babies

 

[Kevin]

Very nice! I hope these will be available in Canada soon, or maybe someone here will re-make them.

What is the GPH for?

Just out of curiosity, when is a colour form a variety and not a form of the species? Cyp. GPH Memoria Charles Frail Jr. is basically just a pale form of Cyp. Aki. Aren't varieties given higher status than forms?

 

[P-chan]

Those are fantastic! Just beautiful!!

 

[SlipperFan]

It looks like you two are on your way to becoming THE Cyp. hybridizers!

 

[Mrs. Paph]

Nice!

 

[fundulopanchax]

Hi, Kevin,

The "GPH" stands for "Gardens at Post Hill." I live in a place called Post Hill Farm in Litchfield Connecticut so GPH is just a local identifier to indicate that the hybrid was flasked and raised here.

Variety vs form is an interesting question that I will leave to the professional botanists, and I know that many of them argue it heatedly!

In naming orchid hybrids, the Royal Horticultural Society decides which forms they recognize within a species as valid. I would guess that for Cyp's they give a lot of weight to Cribb since he has been on the staff at Kew and is the biggest authority on Cyp nomenclature. The RHS recognizes Cyp macranthos var alba as a valid entity for naming orchid hybrids, so this allows Charles Frail to be a different hybrid from Aki.

I am not sure if Aki Pastel began as a group of lighter specimens of Aki that have been further bred or if Aki Pastel was a remake of Aki using a mac alba. If it was a remake using mac alba it could have been registered but was not. As for the looks of the two hybrids, Charles Frail looks a bit different from my Aki Pastels (I have a number of them blooming, from Werner Mueller) but there is a good bit of variability from plant to plant of Aki Pastel so I would think that there are specimens of it that look very much like Charles Frail.

Ron

 

[cyprimaniac]

hello Ron,
pls clear your "private messages folder"

tks
dieter