Iris said: "Apparently this Den. suzukii is a natural hybrid. "
Iris, one parent occurs only at Lake Toba (North Sumatra), the other only on the Isthmus of Kra (southern Thailand), yet the hybrid appears 1000 km away in a nursery in Vietnam, supposedly wild-collected from a Vietnamese location left unclear, and apparently no-one has ever seen it in the wild, and the first flowering of both the "species" and the hybrid took place only 4 months apart and only a few years after the discovery of one parent ... exactly the time it takes to grow a flowering-size Dendrobiums from seed ???? How many coincidences are you prepared to accept ? A natural hybrid ? No chance !!! There is nothing natural about "D. suzukii" ... it is man-made, and proved very lucrative for the fraudsters. Peter O'Byrne _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
