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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Pretty picture: Pescatorea lehmannii


Another picture from the orchid show back in March. I really liked this one, partly because it was a species I'd never heard of before -- a genus I'd never heard of before, even! -- and partly because of the weird furry lip. I went looking around to see if I could locate any interesting trivia about this plant, but as far as Wikipedia and davesgarden.com are concerned, it doesn't exist. Which actually makes me like it even more.
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9 comments:

  1. CelticRoseApril 28, 2011 at 5:49 AM

    Interesting. I am very curious about the purpose of that furry lip, but I couldn't find much info either.

    The best I could find was minimal info on the genus here: http://orchids.wikia.com/wiki/Pescatoria, and a very pretty picture here: http://www.eol.org/pages/1135639.

    Btw, you've misspelled it slightly. It's Pescatoria lehmannii with 2 n's.

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  2. mr_subjunctiveApril 28, 2011 at 8:09 AM

    CelticRose:

    Thanks for the correction. I normally double-check the spellings, because the people presenting plants at the orchid show usually don't, but in this case I guess I didn't. Or I did and just didn't notice the second "n."

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  3. UnknownApril 28, 2011 at 8:48 AM

    hard to find because the genus is Pescatorea not Pescatoria. it happens - I am really bad at typing on a keyboard.

    anyway on the orchidspecies site you can find amost anything:

    http://www.orchidspecies.com/pesclehmani.htm

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  4. UnknownApril 28, 2011 at 12:12 PM

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  5. mr_subjunctiveApril 28, 2011 at 1:02 PM

    stefanogiovannini:

    Wow. It wasn't a typo; they just didn't spell any of the name correctly at the orchid show. Thanks for the correction and link.

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  6. UnknownApril 29, 2011 at 6:25 AM

    I actually see so many misspellings on Orchid forums! And I am not talking about Orchid names!

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  7. CelticRoseApril 29, 2011 at 1:57 PM

    @stefanogiovannini: I saw both spellings for the genus when I did my search. I'm not sure which one is correct.

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  8. PaulApril 30, 2011 at 8:19 AM

    Well don't know this could very well be "orchid overload" for you but you can find a plethora of orchid species photos here:

    http://www.orchidspecies.com/

    Information per species is very compressed and details like why the lip is hairy is unfortunately lacking but considering the volume of species addressed, one certainly can't fault the man......

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  9. rApril 30, 2011 at 1:14 PM

    never heard of it either.
    the flower reminds me of the Bifrenaria-s, but this one seems to lack any prominent pseudobulbs.

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