Hi Erik, I have now in bloom an epi magnoliae hybrid, Eplc. Fiftieth State Beauty. It looks like a miniature Cattleya aurantiaca and is very floriferous. Send your mailing address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Didn't I send you Eulophia keithii pollen once? A cross that I would love to make is Phaius (Gastrorchis) tuberculosus x Calanthe cardioglossa. Look up Chase's paper on orchid molecular phylogeny. Spathoglottis sits off by itself, Phaius and Calanthe are in a group by themselves (although there have been putative Phaius - Cymbidium crosses) and Bletilla hybridizes with Arundina, Calopogon and Arethusa in another separate group, but as far as I have heard Pleione is out away from these. Too bad, the growth morphology is so much like Arethusa. Does anyone else out there have more information on these? I have from time to time put out multiple pollen requests, but have gotten no donations. So I had to go out and buy a spiking plant of Phaius Don Rosenberg, $$$, to ultimately recieve the pollen of my winter blooming gem of a miniature cutie Calanthe cardioglossa. (Unfortunately the plant was in someone elses care for a while this summer and the pod fell off.) I also did not get any replies for Platanthera grandiflora pollen to put on my blooming Platanthera blephariglottis, P. ciliaris, and Pecteilis radiata. I still am searching unsuccessfully for an Arundina graminifolia plant that is not a little section of dessicated, soon to be rotting stem or flimsy tiny keikii that refuses to establish. A flasker is growing my seedlings of a mini Cymbidium crossed with Eulophia keithii, and when I look at all the photos of African Eulophias and Brazilian Cyrtopodiums and think of the possibilities with Catasetum and Mormodes it makes me drool. Bonaventure Magrys New Jersey, USA Original message>>>>>Message: 2 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:29:24 +0000 (GMT) From: erik vanlennep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [OGD] bletinae and friends To: orchids@orchidguide.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Hi everyone, I am doing my semi-annual outreach for contacts and help with a long term project breeding garden orchids based on calanthe, bletilla, and the hardier cymbidiums. I am wondering if anyone on the list is growing (and flowering) members of these alliances, and would be willing to send me pollen? I can reciprocate of course, or send a portion of any successful seed resulting. At the moment, I am hoping to find pollen from bletia purpurea, calopogon spp, spathoglottis or related, and also from ansellia, cyrtopodium, grmmangis, grammatophyllum or phaius spp. A related project is working with the most cold tolerant of the laelia alliance. I am unable to source plants, pollen or seeds of Epi magnoliae (=E. conopseum), or Artorima erubescens (pretty obscure, I know). I would love to hear from anyone else who can help with that, or who is working on similar breeding projects. Best Wishes from very soggy Ireland, Erik _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
