I bought this in flower a couple of weeks ago. Since it requires more warmth than my GH can deliver right now, I made it my current office orchid.
flower diameter in the pic was 4 cm, since then it opened a little further and scratches 5cm now. They get bigger than I thought.
At the nursery who sold it I noticed two things with pleasure: they still had 50 or so left from the import that came in a year or two ago. That indicates to me there is not such a craze about this species than with vietnamiense or so. Good news for wild populations, I hope. Second, there were a couple of flowers with better shape than mine (wider petals) that have been pollinated. Looks like there'll be more flasks of that species around soon.
As I understand, these plants were from a legal import from Thailand (legally exported).
Cheers, Carsten
flower diameter in the pic was 4 cm, since then it opened a little further and scratches 5cm now. They get bigger than I thought.
At the nursery who sold it I noticed two things with pleasure: they still had 50 or so left from the import that came in a year or two ago. That indicates to me there is not such a craze about this species than with vietnamiense or so. Good news for wild populations, I hope. Second, there were a couple of flowers with better shape than mine (wider petals) that have been pollinated. Looks like there'll be more flasks of that species around soon.
As I understand, these plants were from a legal import from Thailand (legally exported).
Cheers, Carsten