visited Riboni Orchids

[reivilos]

Hi guys,
I spent a few days in Northern Italia lately (not that far from valenzino's place iirc) and took the opportunity to visit Riboni Orchids, Varese.

First of all, a few pics of the region:

The paph greenhouse:

Mostly species, lots of them among which:
Left: dayanum, godefroyae
Upper left corner: sangii
Middle left: lawrenceanum, anitum
Right: tigrinum

Callosum:

You figured it out...

Anitum bud:

 

[Justin]

awesome! you'll have to go back in a couple weeks to see the anitum!

 

[SlipperFan]

Anitum bud -- :smitten:

 

[NYEric]

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

 

[likespaphs]

love the dayanum and hookerae/volonteanum!

 

[The Orchid Boy]

Beatiful! Most beautiful is that white/albino peacock. Maybe we should get peacocks again...

 

[Dido]

Nice pics thanks for sharing
did you get anything yourself

 

[Susie11]

They looks good. I would like to order from them but for some reason they don't ship to the UK!!

 

[reivilos]

Just a few things: gigantifolium, hiepii etc.
I don't have much room left so I don't
buy blindly by the ton...

What where you looking for in the catalogue?

 

[Dido]

No flask from you this year

 

[reivilos]

I will have my first from next year.

To come (ie what seemingly worked):
thaianum x (roth x anitum)
volonteanum x tigrinum
tigrinum x niveum
tigrinum x godefroyae
barbatum x Mme Martinet
lawrenceanum x bellatulum

Todo:
tigrinum x leucochilum
bellatulum alba x self

 

[Dido]

I was hopping it gets faster.

Keep me in the line. For sue I have interest in a few of them.

By the way the niveum stopped flowering 2 days ago.

I never had one flowering over nearly 5 month.

And the best it is forming a nice bud with armeniacum.

Only 4 buds have taken at my side. the rest did not get to this point.

bud all are interesting crosses I gues. and only one are both parents from my collection the others are all with pollen for a lot of nice people here in.

Many thanks again