Peter and Iris,
While I agree that it is very unlikely that D. suzukii is a natural hybrid,
the fact cannot be disputed, at this time, that it could just be a new
species. Reviewing the flowers of the man made hybrid D. Peng Seng and those
of D. suzukii reveals that they don't resemble each other very much. Column,
lip, side lobes, etc... are very different.
Until we have several specimens of each to examine or some DNA work done we
will really not know.
icones
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter O'Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <Orchids@orchidguide.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 7:15 AM
Subject: [OGD] Den. suzukii is a natural hybrid.
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
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